Minority Rights

Basic documents

United Nations

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Approved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession by General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Adopted and opened for signature and ratification by General Assembly resolution 2106 (XX) of 21 December 1965

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Article 1, Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966 

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966

Convention on the Rights of the Child - Articles 17 and 30, Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989

Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice Adopted and proclaimed by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its twentieth session, on 27 November 1978
Declaration on the Rights of Persons belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, Adopted by General Assembly resolution 47/135 of 18 December 1992

UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, Adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its thirty-first session on 2 November 2001

Organisation for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCE)/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)

Document of the Copenhagen meeting of the conference on the human dimension of the CSCE, Copenhagen, 29 June 1990CSCE Helsinki Document 1992, Helsinki, 10 July 1992

Council of Europe (CoE) 

Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, Strasbourg, February 1992

European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, Strasbourg, 5 September 1992

PACE Recommendations

Recommendation 1557 (2002): The legal situation of Roma in Europe

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