Last week I attended for the first time the UN Forum on Minority Issues. This is an annual meeting, now in its fifteenth year. I had previously attended sessions of its predecessor, the UN Working Group on Minorities, and was impressed by what I saw at the fifteenth session of the Forum. The current UNContinue reading “What next 30 years after the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Minorities?”
Tag Archives: minority rights
Northern Ireland Census 2021
So the results of Census 2021 in Northern Ireland have now been released. This coincided with some reflections on a call for papers focusing on the relationship between the protection of minority rights and conflict resolution and prevention. Here the experiences of Northern Ireland seem to have little to offer to the debate. Yes, both the Council ofContinue reading “Northern Ireland Census 2021”
Why the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities Matters
I started this blog in part to air some of my frustrations at the limitations and ambiguities embedded within the European minority rights framework. However, I am not a minority rights sceptic. I became interested in minority rights acutely aware of what can happen when minority rights are not respected, and are indeed sometimes trampledContinue reading “Why the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities Matters”
Minority Rights - Reflections and Surmises 