Minority Rights in the Baltics / Boris Tsilevich / Canadian Human Rights Foundation Newsletter

http://www.greekhelsinki.gr/english/articles/chrf-sar99-2-Tsilevic.html

The citizenship issue is the key to understanding the peculiarity of minority issues in the Baltics.

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Romnews

http://www.romnews.com

This is the homepage of the Roma National Congress and the Romnews Network. A wide-ranging collection of Roma links can be found here.

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Roma Participation Program / Open Society Institute

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/roma/focus_areas/rpp

Centuries of discrimination have left the Roma deprived of educational and vocational opportunities as well as socioeconomic benefits of modern society. This programme helps Roma to become active participants in the democratic process and society in which they live. It helps Roma find ways to integrate into society and the economy of the majority without loss of culture or identity. The aim is to enable Roma through democratic and grassroots means to fight for an equal role in society.

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Meskhetian Turks: Solutions and Human Security / Forced Migration Projects / Open Society Institute

http://www2.soros.org/fmp2/html/meskpreface.html

The dissolution of the Soviet Union revealed the consequences of historical injustices in a dramatic way. One of the most poignant travesties concerns whole peoples who were deported to Central Asia in 1944. This report concerns the Meskhetian Turks, who faced deportation in 1944 and were also subjected in 1989 to a pogrom in the Fergana Valley in what is now Uzbekistan.

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Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)

http://www.forestpeoples.org/

The FPP advocates an alternative vision of how forests should be managed and controlled, based on respect for the rights of peoples who know them best. Publications can be downloaded freely from this site.

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Slowenen in Ungarn / Slovenes in Hungary

http://www.vendvidek.com

This page is in German and in English, and includes information on on history, culture and tradition of the Slovenes in Hungary.

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Saami People / Arctic People & Cultures / All Things Arctic

http://www.allthingsarctic.com/people/saami.aspx

An overview of the Saami people can be found here, as well as links to overviews on the Chukchi, Inuit, Aleut, Athhapskans, Inupiaq, Nenet and Yup'ik peoples.

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Virtual Library of Internet resources on national and ethnic minorities in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union / Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative

http://lgi.osi.hu/ethnic/weblibrary/index.html

This virtual library of websites provides researchers, scholars, rights advocates and professionals engaged in policy making and design for multi-ethnic communities with guidance and assistance in accessing information on national and ethnic minorities in CEE and the FSU available on the Internet.

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Center For World Indigenous Studies CWIS

http://www.cwis.org/

Links to internet resources on indigenous peoples worldwide can be found here, as well as links to indigenous studies resources.

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Le Courrier des Balkans

http://www.balkans.eu.org/

This website in French presents articles from independent news sources in the Balkan region, including Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria and Romania.

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