The First United Nations Mandate on Minority Issues

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Across the world, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities are subjected to hate crimes, systematic discrimination and marginalization. Religious minorities have recently faced particular threat in certain regions, while in other parts of the globe identity based on race or ethnicity has been used as a basis for exclusion.

In The First United Nations Mandate on Minority Issues, Gay McDougall curates a selection of reports she produced as UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues. The collection, with her introductory analysis, reveals the challenges and opportunities faced in her attempt to highlight the plight of these oppressed communities around the world and to shape an important new mechanism for the UN’s protection of their rights.

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Part I Introduction

The First Mandate: Experiences and Lessons Learned

I. Introduction

II. The Legal Framework

III. The Scope of the Mandate and Methods of Work

IV. Issues Highlighted

V. The Voices of Minorities

VI. Cooperation, Collaboration, and Implementation

VII. Assessing Potential for Influence

VIII. Concluding Thoughts

Part II Country Visit Reports

Mission to Bulgaria (2011)

I. Introduction

II. Non-discrimination and Equality: Legal and Institutional Framework

III. The Situation of the Roma Minority

IV. Religious Minorities in Bulgaria

V. Recognition and Rights of Macedonian and Pomak Communities

VI. Conclusions and Recommendations

Mission to Colombia (2011)

I. Introduction

II. Overview

III. Legal Framework and Enforcement Mechanisms

IV. Discrimination and Poverty

V. Violence and Displacement

VI. Dispossession of Afro-Colombian Lands

VII. The Right to Consultation and Participation in Decisionmaking

VIII. Conclusions and Recommendations

Mission to Dominican Republic (2007)

I. General Background

II. Methodology of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance and the Independent Expert on Minority Issues

III. Racism and Racial Discrimination

IV. Issues Relating to Documentation of Civil Status and Citizenship

V. Analyses and Conclusions of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance and the Independent Expert on Minority Issues

IV. Joint Recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance and the Independent Expert on Minority Issues

Mission to Ethiopia (2006)

I. Recognition of Minorities in Ethiopia

II. Legal and Political Context

III. Ensuring Group Survival

IV. Language and Culture

V. Non-Discrimination and Equality

VI. Political Participation of Minorities

VII. Poverty

VIII. Conclusions

IX. Recommendations

Mission to France (2008)

I. Legal and Political Context

II. Identity, Language, Culture and Religion

III. Non-Discrimination and Equality

IV. Political Participation of Minorities

V. Conclusions and Recommendations of the Independent Expert

Mission to Greece (2008)

I. Introduction

II. Legal Framework and Implementing Institutions

III. Religion, Language, Culture and National Identity

IV. Discrimination against the Roma

V. Exceptional Issues Facing Minority Women

VI. Political Participation of Minorities

VII. Conclusions and Recomme;ndations

Mission to Viet Nam (2010)

I. Introduction

II. Non-Discrimination and Equality

III. Addressing the Poverty of Ethnic Minorities

IV. Language and Education

V. Religious Minorities

VI. Political Participation of Minorities

VII. Conclusions and Recommendations

Part III Thematic Reports

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for Minorities: A Review of MDG Country Reports and Poverty Reduction Strategies (2007)

I. Minority Rights and the MDGs

II. MDG Country Reports Review

III. Global initiatives on Minorities and the MDGs

IV. Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and Minorities

V. Conclusions and Recommendations

Minorities and the Discriminatory Denial or Deprivation of Citizenship (2007)

I. Introduction

II. Minorities and the Discriminatory Denial or Deprivation of Citizenship

III. Historical and Political Context

IV. International Law Considerations

V. Impact of Discriminatory Denial or Deprivation of Citizenship on Minorities

VI. Regional Practices

VII. Activities of International, Regional and National Organizations

VIII. Conclusions and Recommendations

Minority Rights and Conflict Prevention (2010)

I. Introduction

II. Protection of Minority Rights: A National Tool for Avoiding Violent Conflicts

III. A minority Rights Perspective at the International Level: A Tool for Conflict Prevention

IV. Conclusions and Recommendations

Part IV Recommendations from the UN Forum on Minority Issues: The Right to Equal Access to Quality Education (2008)

Recommendations from the UN Forum on Minority Issues: The Right to Equal Access to Quality Education (2008)

I. Education

II. Core Principles

III. Essential Requirements for an Effective Education Strategy

IV. Equal Access to Quality Education for Minorities

V. Learning Environment

VI. Content and Delivery of the Curriculum.

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