Annex 2: international instruments
| Author | Maja Kostić-Mandić |
| Pages | 105-106 |
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ANNEX 2: INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS
Country: Montenegro
Date: 31 December 2019
Instrument
Date of
signature
Date of
ratification
Derogations/
reservations
relevant to
equality and
non-
discriminatio
n173
Right of
individual
petition
accepted?
Can this
instrume
nt be
directly
relied
upon in
domestic
courts by
individua
ls?174
European
Convention
on Human
Rights
(ECHR)
26.12.2003
06.06.2006
No
Yes
Yes
Protocol 12,
ECHR
26.12.2003
06.06.2006
No
Yes
Yes
Revised
European
Social
Charter
22.03.2005
03.03.2010
No
Ratified
collective
complaints
protocol?
No
Yes
International
Covenant on
Civil and
Political
Rights
2001
23.10.2006
No175
Yes
Yes
Framework
Convention
for the
Protection of
National
Minorities
06.06.2006
06.06.2006
No
Yes
Yes
2001
23.10.2006
No
Yes
Yes
Convention
on the
Elimination
of All Forms
23.10.2006
23.10.2006
No
Yes
Yes
173 ‘Derogations on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, religion, language, ethnic or social origin, political or
other opinion, financial status or any other personal characteristics are forbidden’ (Article 25, Constitution of
Montenegro).
174 Anyone whose rights are violated by individual legal acts that do not comply with the Constitution and
ratified international treaties, according to the opinion of the Constitutional Court, can request amendment
of that act and initiate the procedure before the Constitutional Court, after exhausting all remedies (Law on
the Constitutional Court, Official Gazette of Montenegro, Nos. 64/2008, 46/13 and 51/13, Article 47).
175 Prohibition of derogation with regard to the prohibition of slavery, prohibition of debt slavery and abolition
of the right to be recognised as a person before the law have not been incorporated in the Constitution of
Montenegro.
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