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The United Nations Declaration on Minorities

Author : Ugo Caruso,Rainer Hofmann
Publisher : Hotei Publishing
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004251564

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The United Nations Declaration on Minorities by Ugo Caruso,Rainer Hofmann Pdf

Created in order to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (1992-2012), this publication aims to offer readers a comprehensive review, written by a variety of scholars in the field, of the value and impact of the standards formulated in the Declaration. In so doing, it hopes to stimulate attention for and debate around the Declaration and its principles. The regional perspectives and case studies included further enable the identification of positive initiatives and good practices as well as persistent gaps in the implementation of the standards enshrined in the Declaration.

Know your rights: A community guide to the UN Declaration on Minorities

Author : Nicole Girard
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781907919312

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Know your rights: A community guide to the UN Declaration on Minorities by Nicole Girard Pdf

The year 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities . It was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly on 18 December 1992 and is the primary UN document dedicated to the rights of minorities. Minorities throughout the world have benefited from the adoption of the Declaration as the international community recognized and codified their rights, and national governments took action to protect these rights. But there is still a long way to go in order to fully implement this historic Declaration. This guide aims to celebrate the international recognition of minority rights and to help community activists protect their rights at the national and local levels. We hope this guide will promote awareness of the Declaration among minority communities and help ensure that more governments respect the principles that it contains.

The First United Nations Mandate on Minority Issues

Author : Gay J. McDougall
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004288775

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The First United Nations Mandate on Minority Issues by Gay J. McDougall Pdf

The First United Nations Mandate on Minority Issues describes the challenges in shaping a new mechanism for the UN’s protection of minority rights and contains reports on the plight of minorities in countries around the world.

Know Your Rights

Author : Nicole Girard,Minority Rights Group International
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000147207470

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Know Your Rights by Nicole Girard,Minority Rights Group International Pdf

The year 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities . It was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly on 18 December 1992 and is the primary UN document dedicated to the rights of minorities. Minorities throughout the world have benefited from the adoption of the Declaration as the international community recognized and codified their rights, and national governments took action to protect these rights. But there is still a long way to go in order to fully implement this historic Declaration. This guide aims to celebrate the international recognition of minority rights and to help community activists protect their rights at the national and local levels. We hope this guide will promote awareness of the Declaration among minority communities and help ensure that more governments respect the principles that it contains.

Universal Minority Rights

Author : Minority Rights Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ethnic groups
ISBN : UOM:35112200666487

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Universal Minority Rights by Minority Rights Group Pdf

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Minority Rights

Author : Gudmundur Alfredsson,Erika Ferrer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Human rights
ISBN : UCBK:C092747889

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Minority Rights by Gudmundur Alfredsson,Erika Ferrer Pdf

Outlines the procedures currently available for the promotion and protection of the rights of minorities within the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations.

The UN Minority Rights Declaration

Author : Alan Phillips,Allan Rosas,Katarina Frostell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Human rights
ISBN : UOM:35112200508358

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The UN Minority Rights Declaration by Alan Phillips,Allan Rosas,Katarina Frostell Pdf

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Ideologies across Nations

Author : Alexandre Duchêne
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110208313

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Ideologies across Nations by Alexandre Duchêne Pdf

The book is an invitation to a genealogical understanding of the ideological and discursive processes that have emerged out of the regulation of linguistic minorities issues within an international context and, more precisely, at the United Nations. It highlights the contradictions, limits and possibilities in the elaboration of international measures within the universalist framework of human rights. The book also emphasizes the paradoxes between national interests and the elaboration of an international community - paradoxes in which minority issues fundamentally question the homogeneity of the state. It shows that despite the shift from national spaces to international ones, the fears of nation-states for linguistic minorities remain. Finally, the book reveals the importance of the reproduction of the interests of nation-states within an international organization and the reproduction of power through the legal management and regulation of minority rights in general, and those of linguistic minorities in particular. Through its presentation of the history of the United Nations, its vision of the protection of linguistic minorities, the underlying ideologies that have emerged, as well as the limits and possibilities of action, the book contributes to a better understanding of the complexity of the protection of linguistic minorities and the role of language ideologies within an international context.

Promoting and Protecting Minority Rights

Author : United Nations,United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D035326161

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Promoting and Protecting Minority Rights by United Nations,United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Pdf

"The present guide offers information related to norms and mechanisms developed to protect the rights of persons belonging to national, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities. It includes detailed information about procedures and forums in which minority issues may be raised to minorities and by also covering selected specialized agencies and regional mechanisms, the present Guide complements information contained in Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society"--Introduction.

World Directory of Minorities

Author : Bridget Anderson, James Chin,John Connell,Patrick Costello,Lindsey Crickmay,Chris Dammers,James Ferguson,David Hawk,David McDowall,Anna Matveeva,Julia Maxted,Neil Melvin,Peter O’Neill,Suzanne Pattle,Martyn Rady,Javaid Rehman,Alex Roslin,Nikhil Roy,David Sogge, Bogdan Szajkowski,Carl Wilson,Abebe Zegeye
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781873194362

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World Directory of Minorities by Bridget Anderson, James Chin,John Connell,Patrick Costello,Lindsey Crickmay,Chris Dammers,James Ferguson,David Hawk,David McDowall,Anna Matveeva,Julia Maxted,Neil Melvin,Peter O’Neill,Suzanne Pattle,Martyn Rady,Javaid Rehman,Alex Roslin,Nikhil Roy,David Sogge, Bogdan Szajkowski,Carl Wilson,Abebe Zegeye Pdf

This publication is the first version of the World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples, published in 1997. The full Directory is now available and continually updated on our website. The large majority of violent conflicts in the world today are conflicts within states, with groups polarized across ethnic and religious divides and not across borders. Ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities are often among the poorest of the poor, suffer discrimination and are frequently the victims of human rights abuses. Time and time again in the past, the United Nations system, governments and even non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the field of ‘conflict prevention’ have failed to promote the human rights of minorities or to take early action to promote cooperation between communities. Early action may have prevented the loss of millions of lives in many countries, ranging from Rwanda to the former Yugoslavia, and from Sri Lanka to Guatemala. It is also significant that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Dalai Lama in 1989 and to Jose´ Ramos-Horta and Bishop Carlos Belo in1996 as a result of their peaceful campaigns to promote the rights of their people. The situation of minorities is, then, a matter of major concern, and it is essential that accurate, objective and up-to-date information is made available. This Directory contributes to that process. It is difficult to assess accurately what proportion of the world’s population identify themselves as belonging to minority communities. Conservative estimates place this above 10 per cent, and some suggest that more than 20 per cent of the world’s population belongs to several thousand different minority groups and subgroups. National statistics are often skewed for political reasons, and there is no universally accepted definition of ‘minorities’. The word has different interpretations in different societies throughout the world, while the United Nations General Assembly has not sought to reach a definition beyond that implied in the title of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities adopted in December 1992. Minority Rights Group focuses its work on non-dominant ethnic, religious and linguistic communities, whether or not they are numerical minorities. The concept thus relates to any self-identified community that is marginalized, without power, unable to take decisions over its destiny and often experiencing high levels of illiteracy, under-education and overt or covert discrimination. The basic rights of such communities need protection and promotion. There is, however, a danger of generalizing about minorities and forgetting the complexity of their social composition, including the rural poor, urban migrants, older people, women and children. These groups may be considered as doubly vulnerable. What makes their situation particularly problematic is that there is often a deliberate political policy on the part of majorities and states not to give due regard to the legitimate interests of minorities, while members of minorities see their identity as central to their social and economic situation. They are often excluded from political power and decision-making in the development process, without equal opportunities to secure a better quality of life. One further danger may lie in regarding ethnicities as fixed, rather than as the potentially fluid phenomena that they often are. ‘Situational ethnicity’ does occur, and individuals and groups do modify their self-identifications depending on circumstances. Please note that the terminology in the fields of minority rights and indigenous peoples’ rights has changed over time. MRG strives to reflect these changes as well as respect the right to self-identification on the part of minorities and indigenous peoples. At the same time, after over 50 years’ work, we know that our archive is of considerable interest to activists and researchers. Therefore, we make available as much of our back catalogue as possible, while being aware that the language used may not reflect current thinking on these issues.

Making the Declaration Work

Author : Claire Charters,Rodolfo Stavenhagen
Publisher : International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133122114

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Making the Declaration Work by Claire Charters,Rodolfo Stavenhagen Pdf

"The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is a culmination of a centuries-long struggle by indigenous peoples for justice. It is an important new addition to UN human rights instruments in that it promotes equality for the world's indigenous peoples and recognizes their collective rights."--Back cover.

New Approaches to Minority Protection

Author : Asbjørn Eide
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X002428390

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New Approaches to Minority Protection by Asbjørn Eide Pdf