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United Nations Guide for Minorities
Launched on 1 September 2001, 10:30
Durban Exhibition Centre, South Africa
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/racism/01-minoritiesguide.html
 
The contents of the Guide, in Word format, are as follows:
 

Part I Core documents
 
The text of the 1992 UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging
to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities

The final text of the Commentary to the UN Declaration on Minorities
by Mr. Asbjorn Eide, Chairperson-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on
Minorities


Part II Pamphlets

Pamphlet No. 1: Minorities, the United Nations and Regional Mechanisms
Pamphlet No. 2: The UN Working Group on Minorities
Pamphlet No. 3: The Charter-based system of the UN
Pamphlet No. 4: Human Rights Treaty Bodies and Complaint Mechanisms
Pamphlet No. 5: Protection of Minority Rights in the Inter-American
Human Rights System
Pamphlet No. 6: Minority Rights under the African Charter on Human and
Peoples' Rights
Pamphlet No. 7: Minority Rights under the European Convention on Human
Rights
Pamphlet No. 8: The Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the
Protection of National Minorities
Pamphlet No. 9: The High Commissioner on National Minorities of the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Pamphlet No. 10: Minorities and ILO
Pamphlet No. 11: The Protection of the Rights of Minorities and UNESCO
Pamphlet No. 12: Protection of Refugees who belong to minorities: The
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Pamphlet No. 13: The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development's Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
Pamphlet No. 14: The European Union: Human Rights and the fight
against Discrimination


Part III Annexes

Annex I of Pamphlet No. 1: Listing of web-sites

See also:

Minorities menu at OHCHR
Parallel Events related to Minorities
United Nations Guide for Indigenous Peoples

Prepared by the World Conference Secretariat
� Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Geneva, Switzerland, 1996 - 2001

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