Some provisions and articles of the Albanian Constitution dealing with
the protection of minority rights in Albania (Roma community included)

Article 18

1- All are equal before the law.
2- No one shall be unjustly discriminated against for reasons such as gender, race, religion, ethnicity, language, political, religious or philosophical beliefs, economic conditions, education, social status, or ancestry origin.
3- No one shall be discriminated against for the reasons mentioned in paragraph 2 unless a reasonable and objective legal ground does exist.

Article 20

1- Persons belonging to national minorities exercise, in full equality before the law, the human rights and freedoms.
2- They have the right to freely express, without prohibition or compulsion, their ethnic, cultural, religious and language origin. They have the right to preserve and develop them, to study and to be taught in their mother tongue, as well as join organizations and associations for the protection of their interests and identity.

Article 28

1- Everyone, whose liberty has been taken away, has the right to be informed and notified immediately, in a language that he understands, of the reasons of this measure, as well as the accusation made against him.

Article 31

During a criminal proceeding, everyone has the right:

c- To be provided assistance with a translator, without payment, when he or she does not speak or understand Albanian language;

Article 116 On Normative Acts.

1- All ratified international agreements are Normative Acts with effect in the entire territory of the Republic of Albania.