Beyond the (Non) Definition of Minority
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 19 pages, pdf Description: Over the last few decades, minority rights have become a widely recognized component of international and domestic rights regimes. A scholar or practitioner wanting to know more about the general form and content of minority rights has a growing list of authoritative texts to reference, including article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages, various recommendations and guidelines issued by the High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM), and so forth.