Best practices of Minority Protection in Europe / Institute for Minority Rights / EURAC

http://tinyurl.com/6dyaje2

The aim of the project is to identify best practices of minority protection, while at the same time studying under which conditions such practices can function and under which circumstances the application of certain measures is not recommendable. The focus is on the real situation of minorities in Austria, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

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Commentary on Education under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities / Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities / 2 March 2006

http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/minorities/3_FCNMdocs/PDF_CommentaryEducation_en.pdf

The Commentary recognizes that the Framework Convention is of relevance not only in guaranteeing the right of persons belonging to minorities to good quality, free primary education as well as general and equal access to secondary education but also in setting standards on how such education should be shaped in terms of content as well as form in order to facilitate the development of the abilities and personality of the child, guarantee child safety and accomodate the linguistic, religious, philosophical aspirations of pupils and their parents.

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Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability

http://www.drc-citizenship.org/

This archive site is highly recommended as a starting point for research. It enables users to search by keyword, and to browse by country or theme. Almost 450 resources are now available on the archive website of the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability. Citizenship DRC was an experiment in global research. In 2001, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) funded a coordinating team, based at the Institute of Development Studies, to assemble a research consortium to investigate how citizens hold institutions to account and claim their rights. By giving researchers from both the north and south greater independence, this approach was intended to support long-term research with the objectives of generating new knowledge, disseminating this widely to decision-makers and practitioners, and building the capacity of partner institutions to carry out high-quality research, communication and policy engagement. Over a decade, the Citizenship DRC built a network of researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and activists and collected more than 150 empirically grounded case studies that examine how citizen action and participation shape states and societies. A new summary report outlines the findings of the Centre's ten years of collaborative research.

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Migrant Integration Policy Index MIPEX

http://www.mipex.eu/

MIPEX is a fully interactive tool and reference guide to assess, compare and improve integration policy produced by the British Council and the Migration Policy Group. The MIPEX includes 31 countries in order to provide a view of integration policies across a broad range of differing environments. MIPEX results can be used to analyze and assess past and future changes in policy. Highly recommended.

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"Russians" in the Newly Independent States: A Bibliography of Conflicts and Preventive Diplomacy / Hanne-Margret Birckenbach and Boris Tsilevich, 1998 /Schiff-Texte Special Issue /Schleswig-Holsteinisches Institut fuer Friedenswissenschaften SCHIFF

http://www.minelres.lv/biblio/Bib.htm

This is a useful starting point for research in this area.

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Nation-States vis-a-vis Ethnocultural Minorities: Oppression and Assimilation Versus Integration and Accomodation / D. Yagcioglu

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8945/minor.html

This is a useful introduction to the academic discussion about the role of minorities with reference to nation-states.

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International Freedom of Expression Exchange IFEX

http://www.ifex.org/

This website is available in English, French, or Spanish. Up-to-date information on freedom of expression issues and abuses can be found here.

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University of Liverpool Library / Gypsy Lore Society collections

http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/gypsy/links.htm

Up-to-date links to quality Roma websites can be found here, including links to Patrin, Romnews, Gypsy Lore Society, European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) and others.

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Migration im WWW [Migration in the WWW]

http://www.bonn.iz-soz.de/themen/migration/

This is a useful link collection on migration issues. This site is in German and in English.

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Galdu / Resource Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

http://www.galdu.org/

Extensive, authoritative information on the Sami people as well as on indigenous peoples in general can be found here. The site is useful as a starting point for research.

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