General issues

• JEMIE: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe. Special Focus. Issue 4/2002: Will Kymlicka and Exporting Liberal Pluralism: Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe

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• What's Wrong with Minority Rights in Europe, by María Fernanda Pérez-Solla. EUMAP feature, 06 November 2002

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• An emerging consensus on the special needs of minorities: the lessons of Chapman v. UK, by Luke Clements. Roma Rights, Nr 2-3, 2001

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• Materials of the conference Voice or Exit: Comparative Perspectives on Ethnic Minorities in 20th Century Europe. June 14 - 16, 2001 - Humboldt University Berlin

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• Diversity in Action: Local Public Management of Multi-Ethnic Communities. Edited by Anna-Maria Biro and Petra Kovacs. OSI LGI, 2001

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• Database on minorities. Feasibility study. UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, Working Group on Minorities. Fifth session, 25 - 31 May 1999

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• Democratic governance in multicultural societies. Social conditions for the implementation of international human rights through multicultural policies, by Matthias Koenig. Management of Social Transformations - MOST. Discussion Paper No. 30, 1999

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• Minorities in a Decentralized Environment, by Dr Asbjorn Eide. Background Paper. "Human Rights for Human Development", UN International Conference on Human Rights. Yalta, 2-4 September 1998

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• Nation-States Vis-a-vis Ethnocultural Minorities: Oppression and Assimilation Versus Integration and Accommodation (An Introductory Essay), by Dimostenis Yagcioglu, 1996

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Participation of minorities

• Towards Effective Political Participation and Representation of Minorities, by Dr Fernand de Varennes. Working paper of the UN Working Group on Minorities, Fourth session, 25 - 29 May 1998

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• Proposals of the ECMI Seminar "Towards Effective Participation of Minorities". Flensburg, Germany, 2 May 1999

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Linguistic rights

• The Human Rights of Linguistic Minorities and Language Policies. MOST Journal on Multicultural Societies, vol.3, no.2, UNESCO, 2001

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• Kristin Henrard. The Interrelationship between Individual Human Rights, Minority Rights and the Right to Self-Determination and Its Importance for the Adequate Protection of Linguistic Minorities. The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, Vol. I, no. 1, September 2001 (.pdf)

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• Linguistic rights and legislation: MERCATOR Working Papers

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• To speak or not to speak. The rights of persons belonging to linguistic minorities, by Dr Fernand de Varennes. Working paper of the UN Working Group on Minorities, Third session, 26 - 30 May 1997

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The rights of minorities in education

• Fernand de Varennes. The right to education and minority language. EUMAP Project, 06 February 2004

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• Duncan Wilson. Minority Rights in Education. Lessons for the European Union from Estonia, Latvia, Romania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Right to Education Project, December 2002 (.pdf)

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The rights of minorities in media

• T.McGonagle, B.Davis Noll & M.Price, eds. Minority-Language Related Broadcasting and Legislation in the OSCE. Study commissioned by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, April 2003 (.pdf)

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• The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: From Analysis to Action, by Alan Philips. MRG Advisory Briefing, 2002

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• The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: A Policy Analysis, by Alan Philips. MRG Policy Paper, 2002

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• ECMI Recommendations on the Implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, 14 June 1998

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• The Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. Analysis and Observations on the Monitoring Mechanism. Minority Rights Group International, March 1998

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• Why the Framework Convention Should Be Ratified, by Martin Alexanderson. From: MARE BALTICUM, No. 3, August 1997

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• Memorandum on the Advisory Committee under Article 26 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, by Professor Gudmundur Alfredsson. PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Sub-Committee on Human Rights, 13 May 1996

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• Memorandum on the composition and procedures of the Advisory Committee to be set up under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, by Mr Alan Phillips. PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Sub-Committee on Human Rights. 2 April 1996

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Jurisprudence and case-law

The Limits of Pluralism - recent Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights with Regard to Minorities: Does the Prohibition of Discrimination Add Anything? Sia Spiliopoulou Akermark. JEMIE: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe. Issue 3/2002.

EU enlargement and minorities

• A remaining share or a new part? The Union's role vis-a-vis minorities after the enlargement decade. By Gabriel N. Toggenburg, 2006

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• EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights. Thematic comment No.3: The Protection of Minorities in the European Union. 25 April 2005

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• Minority Protection and the enlarged European Union: The way forward, 2004. By Gabriel N. Toggenburg (Editor)

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• The Bolzano-Bozen Declaration on the Protection of Minorities in the enlarged European Union, 2004

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• JEMIE: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe. Special Focus. Issue 1/2003: EU Enlargement and Minority Rights

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• EU Enlargement: A Union of Values or a Union of Interests? By Rachel Guglielmo, EUMAP feature, 06 November 2002

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• A Rough Orientation Through a Delicate Relationship: The European Union's Endeavours for (its) Minorities, by Gabriel Toggenburg, 2000

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• Ethnic Minorities and Long-Term Implications of EU Enlargement, by Andre Liebich, 1998

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• Minority Rights and EU Enlargement to the East. Report of the First Meeting of the Reflection Group on the Long-Term Implications of EU Enlargement: the Nature of the New Border. Chairman: Giuliano Amato. Rapporteur: Judy Batt, 1998

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• EUMAP: Monitoring the Copenhagen political criteria in the CEE EU accession countries - Minority Rights, see also EUMAP website

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Caucasus

• Ethnic-Confessional Groups and Challenges to Civic Integration in Georgia. Azeri, Javakheti Armenian and Muslim Meskhetian Communities. Caucasian Institute for Peace, democracy and Development, 2002

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• Ethnopolitical Conflicts in the Transcaucasus: Their Roots and Solutions. 1997, CIDCM, University of Maryland (in Russian)

Russian minorities

• Russians in Estonia, their identity and ethnic conflict, by Vadim Poleshchuk, 2003 (in Russian)

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• Selected Papers and Articles by Pal Kolsto (including "Interstate Integration in the Post-Soviet Space: The Role of the Russian Diasporas", "Territorialising Diasporas. The case of the Russians in the former Soviet republics", "The new Russian diaspora - an identity of its own? Possible identity trajectories for Russians in the former Soviet republic")