COMIR: Consortium of Minority Resources

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COMIR: Consortium of Minority Resources  



COMIR: Consortium of Minority Resources

COMIR web site http://www.osi.hu/lgi/comir/
Contact COMIR at [email protected] 


Background

Over the last several years a number of organizations (NGOs, GONGOs,
INGOs as well as IGOs) have been engaged in the development of online
resources to facilitate the exchange of information, to support
minority initiatives, to advocate minority rights in the region, and
to evaluate and further develop universal, regional, bilateral and
national standards that may assist in consolidating democratic
governance on the basis of ethnic diversity and human rights. These
organizations have adopted various strategies to collect and
disseminate information. These strategies often result in overlapping
efforts and parallel projects. Thus is seen the necessity of
cooperation and coordination between various organizations engaged in
the development of online resources, networking and dissemination of
information on the issues of minority rights, multicultural politics
and ethnic relations in Central and Eastern Europe, and in the
Commonwealth of Independent States.

The Consortium of Minority Resources (COMIR) is an internet-based
cooperative project that aims at promoting the free flow of
information and dialogue in the field of ethnic relations,
multicultural politics and minority rights. COMIR aims to establish a
clearinghouse of information and activities relevant to Europe (OSCE
region) to support democratic governance of multiethnic and
multinational societies. To this end, COMIR develops and promotes
virtual libraries, mailing lists, a database of full text documents,
training materials, etc. Major initiatives include a Virtual Library,
coordinated mailing lists, a meta-search engine across founders' web
sites, a Minority Rights Practitioners Resource Pack, a best practice
database, curriculum development and advocacy training.

Founding organizations

Balkan Academic News (BAN)
http://www.egroups.com/group/balkans/fullinfo.html

Center for Documentation and Information on Minorities in
Europe-Southeast Europe (CEDIME-SE)
http://www.greekhelsinki.gr
http://egroups.com/group/balkanhr/fullinfo.html
http://egroups.com/group/greekhr/fullinfo.html

Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPI)
http://www.osi.hu/colpi

European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)
http://www.ecmi.de

European Roma Rights Center
http://errc.org/

The Forum Institute
http://www.forum.inst.sk

Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/

International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
http://www.ihf-hr.org/

LGI Managing Multiethnic Communities Project
http://www.osi.hu/lgi/ethnic
http://www.egroups.com/group/multiethnic

MINELRES Project
http://www.riga.lv/minelres

Minority Rights Group International
http://www.minorityrights.org/



Contact information for further reference

COMIR web site
http://www.osi.hu/lgi/comir/

to contact COMIR, please, send email to [email protected] 

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