Forum on Minority Issues

Second Session of the Forum on Minority Issues

Minorities and Effective Political Participation

12 and 13 November 2009

Relevant documents

Commentary of the Working Group on Minorities to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities

The Lund Recommendations on the Effective Participation of National Minorities in Public Life and Explanatory Note

Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities—Commentary on the Effective Participation of Persons belonging to National Minorities in Cultural, Social and Economic Life and in Public Affairs

OSCE-ODIHR—Guidelines to assist National Minority Participation in the Electoral Process

European Commission for Democracy through Law—Summary Report on Participation of Members of Minorities in Public Life, Strasbourg, 27 February 1998

Non-Discrimination and Equality in the Right of Political Participation for Minorities, Steven Wheatley, University of Liverpool, UK, JEMIE Issue 3/2002

Human Rights Committee: General Comment No. 23: The rights of minorities (Art. 27)