European Yearbook of Minority Issues

by European Centre for Minority Issues Staff

2004 · Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

The "European Yearbook of Minority Issues" provides a critical and timely review of contemporary developments in minority-majority relations in Europe. It combines analysis, commentary and documentation in relation to conflict management, international legal developments and domestic legislation affecting minorities in Europe. "Part I" contains scholarly articles and, in 2002/3, features two special focus sections ('Belgium' and 'New Minorities'), accompanied by a miscellaneous articles section. "Part II" reviews the implementation of minority legislation and international standards at the universal and regional levels as well as new developments in relation to them and contains a list of international norms. Apart from providing a unique annual overview of minority issues for both scholars and practitioners in this field, the Yearbook will be an indispensable reference tool for libraries, research institutes as well as governments and international organisations.

ECMT Round Tables Transport Economics Report of the One-Hundredth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 2-3 June 1994

by European Conference of Ministers of Transport

1995 · OECD Publishing

To mark its hundredth Round Table on transport economics, the ECMT decided to publish a special issue. Fifty European experts were asked to submit papers examining not only the major issues addressed by transport economics in the past, but also those that are likely to emerge in the future.

Institutions for the Management of Ethnopolitical Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe

by European Centre for Minority Issues, Council of Europe

2008 · Council of Europe

Once considered an exclusively internal affair, international organisations have, over the last few decades, become increasingly involved in the management of ethnopolitical conflicts and have been active in attempts to prevent and/or resolve them. This book presents a series of studies covering the work of eight different organisations active in central and eastern Europe: the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe; its High Commissioner on National Minorities; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; the United Nations Development Programme and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; the Council of Europe; the European Union; the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe; and the World Bank. A further chapter considers the role of non-governmental organisations. The studies consider the varying approaches adopted by these institutions and illustrate the ways in which these differ from and complement one another. The assessment covers both the preventive and reactive sides of conflict management, and provides valuable lessons for similar activities in the future, both in the region and beyond.

Minority Rights Jurisprudence Digest

by Alcidia Moucheboeuf, European Centre for Minority Issues, Council of Europe, Germany. Auswärtiges Amt

2006 · Council of Europe

This publication contains information on the statements and judgements made in minority rights court cases by the following international bodies: the European Court of Human Rights (Council of Europe); the African Commission on Human and People's Rights; the European Court of Justice (European Union); the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the International Court of Justice; the Permanent Court of International Justice and the United Nations Human Rights Committee. The information is organised under the following subject headings: assembly; association; discrimination; due process; education; effective participation; existence; expression; family life; group identity; international aspects; limitations, derogations and restrictions; linguistic rights; minority issues; religion; and socio-economic rights. A list of case summaries and the text of selected major international conventions in this field are included as annexes.