
International Standards on Minority Protection
17.02.2025The most important international organisations active in Europe have all adopted provisions concerning the rights of persons belonging to traditional, autochthonous national minorities and languages groups. We are talking about treaties, resolutions, conventions, charters and declarations. There are also different bodies in the European Union, in the Council of Europe, in the United Nations and in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe dealing with minority issues.
We at FUEN (with the active help of Member of the European Parliament Loránt Vincze’s office) have collected the most important information together for you.
Click on the links below to find out more about each institution’s contribution to minority rights:
I. European Union
1. EU Treaties
2. European Parliament resolutions and studies
II. United Nations
- UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues
- Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National, or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
III. Council of Europe
- Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM): TEXT; WEBSITE
- European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML): TEXT; WEBSITE
IV. OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
WEBSITE; Thematic Recommendations and Guidelines on National Minorities
Pressemeddelelser
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