Court for Human Rights have done significant work in the area of realising the rights of women from minorities. I am reminded of the groundbreaking precedents for the reproductive rights of minority women established through the court. The conclusions of the European Commission on Racism and intolerance and reports of the Advisory Committee for the Council of Europe Framework Convention on National Minorities and their respective reporting processes have been particularly useful also The research undertaken by the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union, and published just recently under the EU MIDIS project, indicates that people from minority ethnic groups are five times more likely to experience multiple discrimination than people in the majority population, and that gender and age have very particular impacts on discrimination. This is information that we cannot ignore. The Lisbon Treaty of the European Union also pronounces very explicitly on protection of minorities, but it doesn’t create the legal competence to make policies. However are a number of issues regarding migrant women, regarding the need for policies on integration that clearly include women from minorities, regarding the independent rights of women migrants or those seeking asylum, (these in effect and call for independent status of women in migration and asylum processes), continue to be lobbied for by European NGOs they are important considerations for to the rights of minority women. Finally in the European Union framework there are proposals