MINELRES: New on MINELRES website
MINELRES moderator
[email protected]
Sat Aug 2 14:33:21 2003
Dear MINELRES list members,
Please find below the next list of additions and new links on MINELRES
website.
Boris
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Launch of the United Nations Guide for Minorities, 1 September 2001,
Durban, South Africa (incl. links to core documents and pamphlets on
minority protection under the UN system)
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/racism/01-minoritiesguide.html
UN Working Group on Minorities, 9th session, Geneva, 12-16 May 2003
http://www.unhchr.ch/minorities/group.htm
CEI Instrument for the protection of minority rights, 1994
http://www.htmh.hu/dokumentumok/ceidoc.htm
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Relevant national legislation databases:
MIRIS - Minority Rights Information System, European Academy of
Bozen/Bolzano
http://dev.eurac.edu:8085/mugs2/index.jsp?TopBarItem=Home
MERCATOR legislation database
http://www.ciemen.org/mercator/index-gb.htm
Legislationonline - free-of-charge online service provided by OSCE ODIHR
and the European Union
http://www.legislationline.org/
PILI Discrimination Database - International and comparative
anti-discrimination resources
http://www.pili.org/library/discrimination/index.htm
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European Union's documents
EU support for Roma communities in Central Eastern Europe. Enlargement
briefing, May 2002 (PDF)
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/docs/pdf/brochure_roma_may2002.pdf
Parliamentary questions and answers by the European Commission:
http://www.minelres.lv/eu/epquest/EP_questions.htm
Written question E-1227/02 by Luciano Caveri (ELDR): Linguistic
minorities in the European Union, 29 April 2002
Answer given by Commissioner Vitorino, 19 June 2002
Written question E-0664/02 by Feleknas Uca (GUE/NGL): Cultural and
linguistic rights of minorities in EU candidate countries, 8 March 2002
Answer given by Commissioner Verheugen, 30 April 2002
Written question E-0445/02 by Eluned Morgan (PSE): Regional and minority
languages, 21 February 2002
Answer given by Commissioner Reding, 17 April 2002
Written question E-0620/01 by Nelly Maes (Verts/ALE): Respect for
regional and minority languages, 1 March 2001
Answer given by Commissioner Reding, 15 May 2001
Written question E-3829/00 by Astrid Thors (ELDR): Linguistic minorities
in the applicant countries, 7 December 2000
Answer given by Commissioner Verheugen, 14 February 2001
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UN Human Rights Committee:
Views on Communication No.760/1997 (J.G.A. Diergaardt v. Namibia)
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/undocs/session69/view760.htm
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Selected publications:
JEMIE: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe. Special
Focus. Issue 1/2003: EU Enlargement and Minority Rights
http://www.ecmi.de/jemie/specialfocus.html
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
http://www.ecmi.de/jemie/special_4_2002.html
Minority Rights in Education. Lessons for the European Union from
Estonia, Latvia, Romania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
by Duncan Wilson. Right to Education Project, December 2002 (pdf)
http://www.right-to-education.org/content/lessons/roul_ww.pdf
The Human Rights of Linguistic Minorities and Language Policies. MOST
Journal on Multicultural Societies, vol.3, no.2, UNESCO, 2001
http://www.unesco.org/most/vl3n2edi.htm
Linguistic rights and legislation: MERCATOR Working Papers
http://www.troc.es/ciemen/mercator/work-pape-gb.htm
Media Legislation, Minority Issues, and Implications for Latvia, by
Leonid Raihman, 2002
http://www.policy.hu/raihman/PolicyPaper.htm
Social Dimension of Integration in Estonia and Minority Education in
Latvia, by Vadim Poleshchuk. ECMI Workshops "Social Dimension of
Integration in Estonia, 19-21 October 2001, Parnu, Estonia, and
"Prospects of Minority Education in Latvia, 1-4 November 2001,
Daugavpils, Latvia. ECMI Report # 18, December 2001
http://www.ecmi.de/doc/download/report_18.pdf
EUMAP: Monitoring the Copenhagen political criteria in the CEE EU
accession countries - Minority Rights, OSI
http://www.osi.hu/eumap/min1.htm
see also EUMAP website
http://www.eumap.org/
Culture and Ethnicity in Philosophy
http://www.augustana.ca/~janzb/philcult.htm
Materials of the Society Integration Commission, Estonia
http://www.riik.ee/saks/ikomisjon/
Federal Programme "Encouraging tolerance and prevention of extremism in
the Russian society, 2001-2005 (in Russian)"
http://www.tolerance.ru/
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Reports and statements
Macedonian Human Rights Movement of Canada: 2001 Annual Report � The
Macedonian Minority in Bulgaria
http://www.mhrmc.ca/reports/b01.html
Resolution for promotion of the national minority status and rights in
the Republic of Albania, by the Conference of national minorities in the
Republic of Albania, 17-19 June 2002 (from BalkanHR list)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/balkanhr/message/4326
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The Journal of Democracy
http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/jod.htm
Peace, Conflict & Development, published by the University of Bradford
http://www.peacestudiesjournal.org.uk/
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Organizations and projects:
Le Groupement pour les Droits des Minorit�s (GDM) - association
fran�aise r�gie par la loi de 1901, est affili�e au Minority Rights
Group (MRG) International de Londres
http://www.gdm.ras.eu.org/index.html
New homepage of The Minorities at Risk (MAR) Project (click Data to go
to country/minority files)
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/home.htm
Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV)
http://www.gfbv.de/
Group dealing with minorities in Romania
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rumanian_minorities/
Intercultural Institute of Timisoara
http://www.intercultural.ro/en/index.html
BAREH DROMA: website of Roma in Russia
http://www.romale.ru/en/index.html
Roma Foundation, Russia
http://www.fondroma.ru/
Roma News, Romania
http://www.romanews.ro/
Society for the Improvement of Local Rroma Communities, Yugoslavia
http://www.durn.org.yu/
Cinti homepage
http://www.Cinti.de/
Cultural, political and other news from the Roma communities around the
world
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Roma_Daily_News/
Romano Liloro, the announcement group for Roma people and their
supporters around the world
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romano_liloro/
News, reports and articles about the international Romani (Gypsy)
community in Russian language
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/russian_roma/
WWW page that deals with those peoples of the Carpathian Mountains, who
are commonly known as Lemkos
http://www.lemko.org/
Two websites on Kaszubians:
Kaszubia.com
http://www.kaszubia.com/
Zasoby Kaszubsko-Pomorskie
http://www.zk-p.pl/
Website on Silesians
http://www.raslaska.org/
Two websites on Sorbs:
Wenden Sorbs
http://www.sorben-wenden.de/
DOMOWINA
http://home.t-online.de/home/320051871311/presse.htm
The Vlachs, by Asterios Koukoudis
http://web.otenet.gr/vlachs/index-uk.htm
Two websites on Talishs:
Website of Talish people
http://atropat.narod.ru/
Home page of "Talish-Mougan autonomous republic"
http://www.midianworld.narod.ru/
Circassians (Adyghe)
Circassianweb.com
http://www.circassianweb.com/
OMO Ilinden Pirin - political party of Macedonian minority in Bulgaria
http://www.omoilindenpirin.org/
Macedonian Human Rights Movement of Canada
http://www.mhrmc.ca/
Center for Jewish Culture, Krakow
http://www.judaica.pl/
Association for Democratic Initiatives, Macedonia
http://www.adi.org.mk/
NGO "Ethnic Tolerance" (Serbia)
http://www.etnickatolerancija.org.yu/
Ukrainian World Congress
http://ukrainianworldcongress.org/
Azeri Voice - Diaspora Newsletter for Azeri-Americans (a lot of useful
links)
http://www.angelfire.com/az3/AzeriVoice/links.html
Diaspora.az
http://www.diaspora.az/
Cultural Diversity in Armenia - Armenian Federation of UNESCO Clubs and
Associations (AFUCA)
http://www.cultural-diversity.am/
CEDIME-SE database files:
Minorities in Romania
http://www.greekhelsinki.gr/english/reports/CEDIME-Reports-Minorities-in-Romania.html
Minorities in Albania
http://www.greekhelsinki.gr/english/reports/CEDIME-Reports-Minorities-in-Albania.html
Minorities in Bulgaria
http://www.greekhelsinki.gr/english/reports/CEDIME-Reports-Minorities-in-Bulgaria.html
Greek Miinorities in the Balkans
http://www.greekhelsinki.gr/Special-issues-Greek-Minorities-in-Balkans.html
IMADR - International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and
Racism
http://www.imadr.org/
Information and Research Center "Panorama" (including study on
nationalism, extremism, and xenophobia in Russia)
http://www.panorama.ru:8101/
Center for Legal Analyses - Kaligram Foundation (Slovakia) - an
independent group of experts to analyze relevant legal questions
regarding minorities in Slovakia as well as the issues of the European
law and the Slovak legislation
http://www.cla.sk/
Society for Humanitarian Researches: Human Rights in Azerbaijan
http://www.humanrights-az.org/
EWERS: Project "Early Warning - Early Response System for the Caucasus"
http://www.ewers-iccn.org.ge/enghome.html
International Center on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN), Georgia
http://www.iccn.ge/
Centro di documentazione sui popoli minacciati (Italy)
http://www.popoli-minacciati.it/causa.htm
Center for Global Peace & Conflict Studies, University of California
http://hypatia.ss.uci.edu/gpacs/index.html
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Minority media
MIDAS: European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional
Languages
http://www.midas-press.org/index
The Multicultural Skyscraper
http://www.multicultural.net/
Saami Radio (Sweden)
http://www.sr.se/sameradion/
Saami Radio (Finland)
http://www.yle.fi/samiradio/
MED-TV - a satellite channel broadcasting in Kurdish
http://www.ib.be/med/
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Useful websites:
Secretariat of the Minister for the Special Task in the Field of
Integration Affairs, Latvia
http://www.integracija.gov.lv/
www.bayefsky.com: The UN Human Rights Treaties (rich collection and easy
search)
http://www.bayefsky.com/
Rights to Education Project
http://www.right-to-education.org/
Websites on human rights in Russian, Human Rights libary, University of
Minnesota
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/russian/links/Ralllinks.html
Peace Resources
http://www.qozi.com/peace/
Corvinus Library: Hungarian history
http://www.hungary.com/corvinus/index.htm