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• Minority rights protection within the UN system - general overview

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• OHCHR: UN Documents on minorities

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• General Assembly resolution 217 C (III): Fate of minorities, 1948

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• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) the first UN document to contain the clause on minority rights

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• General Comment by the Human Rights Committee on Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1994

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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)

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• UN Minority Rights Declaration (1992)

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• UN Working Group on Minorities (see also the 'Selected Publications' page)

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  • Report of the Working Group on Minorities on its tenth session (Geneva, 1-5 March 2004)

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  • 7th session, Geneva, 14-18 May 2001 (CEDIME-SE website)

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• Individual complaints of violation of Art.27 under the Optional Protocol

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• UNESCO Convention Against Discrimination in Education ,1962 (from the University of East London Minority Rights Database)

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• UNESCO MOST Programme: Multi-Cultural and Multi-Ethnic Societies

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• UN documents and submissions on the Indigenous Peoples, including ILO Conventions 107 and 169 (The Fourth World Documentation Project website)

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• UN High Commissioner for Refugees homepage

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• Search engine for more

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• www.bayefsky.com: The UN Human Rights Treaties (rich collection and easy search)

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