Chapter 12: Regional Issues, Standards and Mechanisms
12.1 Minorities in Africa
12.1.1 Standards and mechanisms of the African Union
12.2 Minorities in Latin America and the Caribbean
12.2.1 Standards and mechanisms of the Organization of American States (OAS)
12.3 Minorities in the Arab States
12.3.1 Standards and mechanisms of the League of Arab States
12.4 Minorities in Asia and the Pacific
12.4.1 Standards and mechanisms in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
12.5 Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS)
12.5.1 Standards and mechanisms in CEE and the CIS
12.5.2 Council of Europe (CoE)
12.5.3 European Union (EU)
12.5.4 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
12.5.5 Decade for Roma Inclusion
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Other standards relevant to minorities
UN special procedures
11.5.1 The UN Independent Expert on minority issues
11.5.2 UN Special Rapporteurs
The UN Forum on Minority Issues
The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PFII) and the UN Expert
Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
11.8 The UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (WGPAD)
11.9 The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
11.10 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN Human Rights Council
11.11 UN early warning mechanisms (EWMs)
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N Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious
and Linguistic Minorities
II. Selected conclusions and recommendations on minority rights from UN treaty bodies
III. Listing of papers of the former UN Working Group on Minorities and the present Independent
Expert on minority issues, and the pamphlets in the UN Guide for Minorities, by theme, by
country/region as well as the major studies or reports of the former UN Sub-Commission
on Human Rights
IV. Further reading on minority issues
V. Web sources on minority issues
VI. Works cited
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