Bibliography
Minority Youth: towards diverse and inclusive societies
1. International legal framework:
Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and
Linguistic Minorities, 1992.
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/47/a47r135.htm
Article 1:
1. States shall protect the existence and the national or ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic
identity of minorities within their respective territories and shall encourage conditions for the
promotion of that identity. […]
Article 2:
1. Persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities (hereinafter
referred to as persons belonging to minorities) have the right to enjoy their own culture, to
profess and practise their own religion, and to use their own language, in private and in public,
freely and without interference or any form of discrimination.
2. Persons belonging to minorities have the right to participate effectively in cultural, religious,
social, economic and public life. […]
Article 4:
1. States shall take measures where required to ensure that persons belonging to minorities
may exercise fully and effectively all their human rights and fundamental freedoms without any
discrimination and in full equality before the law. […]
3. States should take appropriate measures so that, wherever possible, persons belonging to
minorities may have adequate opportunities to learn their mother tongue or to have
instruction in their mother tongue.
4. States should, where appropriate, take measures in the field of education, in order to