minorities’ rights

The rights of ethnic minorities to their native language, its free use and development, education in their native language – this is the theme of the upcoming 12th annual UN Forum on minority issues to be held at the end…read more

The Minority Forum aims at addressing the interrelatedness and interconnection between the promotion and protection of the human rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities. This year’s Forum is convened on the theme “Statelessness: A…read more

Based on the results of its 93rd session the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) made recommendations to Tajikistan, including two important recommendations, on which the country had to report urgently. The first concerned measures…read more

Following the recommendations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued just over a year ago, Armenia reported on implementation of measures concerning two priority issues. The experts of the Committee had earlier pointed to an extremely…read more

The Moldovan authorities submitted a report on the implementation of two priority recommendations made earlier by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). These concerned the implementation of linguistic rights of ethnic minorities and the improvement of…read more

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN CERD) published its concluding observations and recommendations to Kyrgyzstan following the consideration of the country’s official state report during the 95th session of the Committee on April 23-24, 2018. The…read more