New on MINELRES website - interesting LINKS
Council of Europe Directorate General of Human Rights:
From: MINELRES moderator <minelres@mailbox.riga.lv>Subject: New on MINELRES website
Dear MINELRES list members,
For several months we haven't informed you about the new materials and links on the MINELRES website. Please, find enclosed the list of some recent additions to the site. We'll try to update you on new materials more regularly in future.
Boris
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This website provides general information about the work of the Directorate General of Human Rights on the protection of national minoritiesState reports on implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities:
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/index.htmFramework Convention: Chart of signatures and ratifications
http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/EN/searchsig.asp?NT=157&CM=&DF=
Framework Convention: Declarations and reservations
http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/EN/DeclareList.asp?NT=157&CM=&DF=
SloveniaNew MINELRES country pages:
http://www.humanrights.coe.int/minorities/Eng/FrameworkConvention/StateReports/2000/slovenia/slovenia.html
HungaryDatabases, resources:
http://www.riga.lv/minelres/count/hungary.htm
Internet presentation "Minorities in Europe" - a part of the project "Cultures, Languages, Minorities: The Danish-German Border Region – An Example of Conflict Resolution"MERCATOR Linguistic Law and Legislation
http://www.minority2000.net/in particular, files on:
Russians in Estonia
http://www.minority2000.net/Gr-15/f13gb.htmRussians in Finland
http://www.minority2000.net/Gr-75/t51gb.htmHungarians in Romania
http://www.minority2000.net/Gr-75/t84gb.htmHungarians in Ukraine
http://www.minority2000.net/Gr-75/t87gb.htmRoma in Finland
http://www.minority2000.net/Gr-75/t50gb.htmRoma in Sweden
http://www.minority2000.net/Gr-75/t66gb.htm
Roma in Austria
http://www.minority2000.net/Gr-75/t45gb.htmRoma in Kosovo
http://www.minority2000.net/Gr-15/f16gb.htm
has as a main goal to make up a data base holding the whole legal and/or normative documents that build up the European linguistic frame, specially from the European Union institutions and languages.Organisations:
http://www.troc.es/ciemen/mercator/index-gb.htmEuropean minority (or minoritized) languages
http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/saoghal/mion-chanain/Failte_en.htmlEurolang - an information service which aims to cover issues related to language diversity within the EU
http://www.eurolang.net/Editorial Site for the Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities
http://www.fitzroydearborn.com/chicago/minorities/default.aspTATAR.NET - Crimean Tatar Internet Resources
http://www.tatar.net/Roma in the Czech Republic
http://www.romove.cz/roma/index.htmlNation Planet - a link site on nationalism
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/plana.htmlGlobal IDP Database, Global IDP Project of the Norwegian Refugee Council
http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/WebCountryMenu?OpenForm
European Monitoring Centre on Racism and XenophobiaResources:
http://www.eumc.at/South-Tyrolean Institute of Ethnic Groups
http://www.svi-bz.org/Minority Groups Research Centre, Greece
http://www.incahellas.com/kemo/Centre for New Ethnicities Research, University of East London
http://www.uel.ac.uk/cner/index.htmEthnocultural Diversity Resource Center, Romania
http://www.edrc.ro/Resource Center for National Minorities, Baku, Azerbaijan
http://5c.azeri.com/rcnm/Society for Humanitarian Researches, Baku, Azerbaijan
http://members.nbci.com/centerhr97/index.htmISAR: Azerbaijan NGO Support Center
http://www.isar-az.org/indexe.htm
(contains NGO directory: http://www.isar-az.org/directory_index.htm )The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
http://www.rwi.lu.se/INTERRIGHTS - International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights
http://www.interights.org/
(pay attention to its international human rights law reports database at http://www.interights.org/search.asp )Citizens' Watch, St Petersburg (Russian HR NGO)
http://wwwwin.wplus.net/pp/citwatch/Albanian Committee for Human Rights
http://www.achr.org/Belgrade Centre for Human Rights
http://www.bgcentar.org.yu/Franciscans and Dominicans for Human Rights
http://www.fiop.org/Swiss Refugee Council (in German and French)
http://www.sfh-osar.ch/d/index.cfm
The Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD)Interesting governmental links
http://www.armazi.demon.co.uk/cipdd.htmlIndependent Society "Human Rights in Georgia"
http://www.ishrg.org/Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Poland
http://www.hfhrpol.waw.pl/En/index.htmlFoundation for Education for Democracy, Poland
http://human-rights.net/fed/Lithuanian NGO database
http://www.nisc.lt/Information Centre of Finno-Ugric Peoples
http://www.suri.ee/Kurdish Human Rights Project
http://www.khrp.org/Uyghur Human Rights Coalition Homepage
http://www.uyghurs.org/Aromanians in the Balkans
http://www.aromanian.net/ELTE-UNESCO Minority Studies Masters Degree Program
http://www.elte.hu/elte/sociology/dofsops/ems/ems.htmlMANY COLOURS - Educational Strategies for Teaching Migrants Host Language and Culture Integration
a partnership between educational institutions from Verona (Italy), Leeds/Halifax (England) and Karmùy (Norway)
http://www.karmoyped.no/manycolours/Institute for Intercultural and International Studies, University of Bremen
http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~iniis/index_e.htmSpecialist Group on Ethnic Politics, the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~mlssaw/ethnic_politics/home.htmlSolomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.psych.upenn.edu/sacsec/
Hungary:Reports:Parliamentary Commissioner for the National and Ethnic Minorities Rights
http://www.obh.hu/nekh/en/index.htmGovernmental Office for National and Ethnic Minorities
http://www.meh.hu/nekh/Latvia:
Department of Affairs of National Minorities
http://www.np.gov.lv/en/fjas/mazakumtaut.htmNaturalization Board
http://www.np.gov.lv/en/index.htmCitizenship and Migration Board
http://www.pid.gov.lv/eindex.htmlEstonia:
Minister on Ethnic Affairs Katrin Saks
http://www.riik.ee/saks/main/Citizenship and Migration Board
http://www.mig.ee/eng_index.htmlRomania:
Ministry of Education, Dept of National Minorities
http://www.edu.ro/mino.htmThe People's Advocate Institution (the Romanian Ombudsman)
http://www.avp.ro/Slovenia:
Government's Office for Religious Communities
http://www.sigov.si/uvs/ang/aindex.htm
Human Rights Watch World Report 2001Electronic journals and lists:
http://www.hrw.org/wr2k1/just to remind: Human Rights Watch World Report 2000
http://www.hrw.org/wr2k/Amnesty International Annual Report 2000 (Regional Index Europe)
http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/ar2000web.nsf/europe
Central Europe ReviewInteresting publications:
http://www.ce-review.org/AB IMPERIO - Theory and History of Nationalities and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Realm
http://aimag.knet.ru/RUS-NAT - a trilingual (French-English-Russian) cross-disciplinary list devoted to the discussion of all aspects of Russian nationalism, the Russian national consciousness and similar topics
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/rus-nat/National-liberation list: Issues on occupied, non-self-governing, oppressed and unrecognized nations, national liberation movements, unrecognized governments and administrations, promotion of relations and co-operation among them
http://www.egroups.com/community/national-liberation
Proposals of the ECMI Seminar "Towards Effective Participation of Minorities".Other useful sites:
Flensburg, Germany, 2 May 1999
http://www.ecmi.de/activities/tep_proposals.htmEthnic Minorities and Long-Term Implications of EU Enlargement, by Andre Liebich
http://www.iue.it/RSC/WP-Texts/98_49t.htmlMinority Rights and EU Enlargement to the East. Report of the First
Meeting of the Reflection Group on the Long-Term Implications of EU
Enlargement: the Nature of the New Border. Chairman: Giuliano AMATO
Rapporteur: Judy BATT
http://www.iue.it/RSC/Amato98-PP.htmA Rough Orientation Through a Delicate Relationship: The European Union's Endeavours for (its) Minorities, by Gabriel Toggenburg
http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2000-016.htmAll Ethnic Problems Solved <in Bulgaria>? By Matilda Nahabedian,
Central European Review, Vol 2, No 41, 27 November 2000
http://www.ce-review.org/00/41/nahabedian41.htmlMinority Self-Government in Hungary: Legislation and Practice, by Niamh Walsh.
ECMI Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 2000
http://www.ecmi.de/publications/jemie/data/minority_self-government_hungary.htmlPoland: A Complicated Coexistence.
Polish-Jewish relations through the centuries. By Joanna Rohozinska.
Central Europe Review, Vol.2, No 43, 2000
http://www.ce-review.org/00/4/rohozinska4.htmlJewish Life in Hungary, Part One. By Gusztav Kosztolanyi.
Central Europe Review, Vol.2, No 43, 2000
http://www.ce-review.org/00/4/csardas4.htmlThe Deportation and Fate of the Crimean Tatars, by J. Otto Pohl.
Paper presented at the 5th Annual World Convention of the ASN, 13-15 April 2000, New York
http://www.iccrimea.org/jopohl.html
European Governments on the WWW
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/europa.htmlPolitical Resources on the Net
(Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media and more from all around the world)
http://www.politicalresources.net/Union of International Associations
http://www.uia.org/index-new.htmNGONet: information to, for and about NGOs active in Central and Eastern Europe
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