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List of supplementary tools, guidance
and other documents
I. Specific to minority issues
• Minority Rights: International Standards and Guidance for Implementation (OHCHR publication), http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/
MinorityRights_en.pdf
• Marginalised Minorities in Development Programming. A UNDP Resource
Guide and Toolkit (UNDP in partnership with OHCHR), http://www.undp.
org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/democratic-governance/human_
rights/marginalised-minorities-in-development-programming-a-resourceguide-and-toolkit/
• Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (OHCHR publication), http://www.ohchr.
org/Documents/Issues/Minorities/Booklet_Minorities_English.pdf
• United Nations Forum on Minority Issues. Compilation of recommendations of the first four sessions 2008 to 2011 (OHCHR publication), http://
www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/MinorityIssues/Forum_
On_Minority_Pub_en_low.pdf
• “Recommendations of the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues at its
fifth session” (A/HRC/22/60), http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/
HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session22/AHRC2260_English.pdf
• “Report of the Independent Expert on minority issues to the General Assembly focusing on the role of the protection of minority rights in conflict
prevention” (A/65/287), http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Minorities/IExpert/Pages/Annual.aspx
• “Report of the Independent Expert on minority issues to the Human Rights
Council focusing on minorities and the discriminatory denial or deprivation
of citizenship” (A/HRC/7/23), http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Minorities/
IExpert/Pages/Annual.aspx
• “The case for attention to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities in the Post-2015 Development Agenda”, paper by the Independent
Expert on minority issues http://www.worldwewant2015.org/node/287510
• “Human Rights Committee General Comment #23: Article 27 (Rights of
Minorities)”, http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/fb7fb12c2fb8bb21
c12563ed004df111?Opendocument
• “Compilation of United Nations manuals, guides, training material and
other tools on minority issues—Report of the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights”, http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/
Issues/Minorities/CompilationMinoriites.pdf
• “Online training course: Introduction to minority rights, regional human
rights mechanisms, and minority rights advocacy” (freely accessible, need
to register; MRG International in partnership with OHCHR), https://minorityrightscourse.org/login/index.php