Stop a proposal to change the Constitution (Call of Civil Society Organizations)

Dear Member / Dear Member,

National Council of the Slovak Republic will soon stand before one of the most serious decisions in the era of the independent republic. The submitted proposal to amend the Constitution of the Slovak Republic is not just another legislative initiative – it is an attempt to change the nature of our state.

The Government of the Slovak Republic submits a proposal to amend the Constitution, which will limit in the event of adoption “Constitutional anchoring advantages of international law and EU law over the laws of the Slovak Republic“And it will fundamentally weaken human rights protection in Slovakia. The proposal threatens all people in Slovakia, but the most vulnerable – children, women, poor, people exposed to discrimination or inequality based on age or gender identity.

In the case of receipt of a proposal, Slovakia would fundamentally move away the key principles of compliance with democratic principles and its own obligations. It is not excluded that he will face an action in the EU Court of Justice and high sanctions. They’re not phrases.

Already today, equality, dignity and protection of human rights are very difficult to promote. Every effort to fulfill human rights is torpedoed by many political leaders and representatives who, instead of fulfilling their duties, devote their efforts to destruction. The promotion of a proposal to amend the Constitution would be a clear political legacy for all inhabitants of Slovakia: « Equality, dignity and human rights protection are just empty words. We will not protect them. »

It is the state power that is historically the greatest human rights violator. Therefore, the international system of protection of our rights was created through the human rights conventions and linked protective systems. In order to keep people protect their own states, but on the contrary, they will hurt them, they had the opportunity to rely on international assistance. International conventions have protected vulnerable people even when national systems only provided a low standard of protection of their rights. This protection system wants to send a government coalition with pre -declared support KDH And the siding. This is not the defense of identity or sovereignty, this is a conscious and insidious act that is aimed at cutting off Slovakia from the system and structures of international protection of human rights.

It is also an attack on the Institute of the Slovak Republic. The anchoring of fundamental rights and freedoms in it was an important moment in the anchoring of the democratic statehood of Slovakia after a year 1989 Also since 1993 in communities that have grown on the foundations of equality and humanity. Any suggestions that attack this anchor must be taken as extremely dangerous.

The proposal of the change of the Constitution follows the various efforts to reduce the protection of the rights of vulnerable people through the labeling that these are “cultural-ethical issues”. The right not to be issued by discrimination, the right to education and scientific progress, health or respect for private and family life belong to everyone and responsibility for their protection and fulfillment cannot be easily rid of the phrase on « cultural-ethical issues ».

For example, the proposal will allow any domestic political majority to divert the teaching in schools from the principle of non -discrimination through the « parental consent » of any domestic majority. Children and young people will be exposed to serious risks arising from the fact that instead of information in accordance with current scientific knowledge, they will be able to be exposed to literally censored, ideological content of teaching.

Although we do not know for sure today, the proposal may eventually include a widely formulated right to a reservation in conscience, which is also extremely worrying. In practice, this may mean that doctors, pharmacists or teachers, as well as people from helping professions, social workers, could refuse to fulfill their professional obligations on the basis of subjective beliefs, regardless of the rights and needs of the person to serve, even in the state’s state institutions. This element of the proposal would be most affected by women and girls who may lose the right of choice. Other distinctly affected groups would include children who face violence, children from low -stimulating closed environments, but also patients in the immediate threat to life.

The proposal manipulatively narrows the definition of what the family is and at the same time attempts to enforce the constitutional definition of who is a full -fledged person. Transrodal and intersex people who are already facing human rights violations are to be erased from the language of state administration, laws and decree. All deputies and deputies considering supporting the proposal should be aware that they are not entitled to such interventions.

Therefore, we call on all the deputies and deputies: Stop this proposal, do not vote for it! Your decision will change the lives of many people to the worse – it will move them to the sphere of fear, hiding your own identity, solving life situations on the edge of legality. It will not help (and literally) no one. It will also change the position of Slovakia in the world.

No one who appreciates his parliamentary promise can vote for a proposal that will hardly hinder vulnerable people and anchor the exclusion, control and ideological domination to the basic document of our State – the Constitution.

It’s not too late to do the right thing. You are not people without a name. With your voice, you make a record in the history of our state and by your decision you become co -responsible for how we will continue to live.

With respect,

Rado Sloboda, Amnesty International Slovakia

Adriana Mesochoritis, choice of choice

Zuzana Havírová, Roma lawyer and research center

Monika Kapráliková, Intymyta

Milan Zvada, Garden – Center of Independent Culture and Inocraj

Robert Furiel, Saplinq, Oz

Zuzana S. Szabóová, Community Foundation Healthy City

Ida Želinská, Neon team

Vlado Rafael, Eduroma

Slavo Sochor, Literary Base

Jana M. Hanzelová, a hole in the world