
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
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- Interview: Sonja Wolf on the Role of Minorities in Cross-Border Cooperation
- Interview: Dr Georg Lun on the Economic Importance of Linguistic Diversity in South Tyrol and Beyond
- Meeting in South Tyrol: Minorities without a kin-state call for greater visibility of their languages at major events
- Press Release On the European Court of Justice’s final decision on the Minority SafePack Initiative
- 11th Annual Meeting of FUEN TAG was hosted by the Turkish community in Bulgaria
- Brochure of the FUEN Education Working Group Published
- New FUEN Report: Empowering Minority Women in Europe
- FUEN TAG Spokesperson Habip Oğlu met with Ambassador Vaqif Sadıqov, Head of Mission of Azerbaijan to the European Union
- FUEN Congress 2025 to take place in Bozen/Bulsan/Bolzano
- FUEN Education Working Group visits Belgium’s German-speaking Community