National minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The legislation of Bosnia and Herzegovina recognises three constituent peoples and 17 national minorities (nacionalne manjine).

[2] Since 2006, the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina established the Council of National Minorities, as a special advisory body to give opinions, advice and proposals to the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH on all matters concerning the law, position and interests of national minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[2] The National Minority Council of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity was established in March 2016.

The National Minority Council of Sarajevo Canton was established in 2012, with extended powers of legislative initiative.

[2] Several newsletters and bulletins are published periodically in minority languages, including four in Slovene, and one each in Hungarian (Új dobos),[7] Macedonian (Vinozito), Italian (Stella d'Italia) and Czech (Banjalucki Krajani)[2]