YEAR
THEME
SIDE EVENTS
World Federation of the Deaf: Inclusive Education and Sign Language
European Centre for Democracy Development: Xenophobia: threat to young generations in Europe
Tom Lantos Institute/University of London: Global governance on minority rights: Assessing the UN Forum on
Minority Issues
2017
Minority Youth: Towards Diverse and Inclusive Societies
Collectif Jeune Bretagne: Jeunesse et identite culturelle en France
Maloca Internationale: Minority Youth in Iran
World Uyghur Congress: Minority Youth and Native Languages
UNPO: Unrepresented Youth: Preserving minority identities among new generations
MRG, OHCHR and Permanent Mission of Austria: Not Just Paper: Intersectional and Aggravating Factors Affecting
the Rights of Stateless Minorities
UNPO: Minority Empowerment: A Human Rights Approach to Counter Statelessness
2018
Statelessness: A Minority Issue
Maloca Internationale and Zagros Center: Stateless Kurds in Syria
Tom Lantos Institute/University of London: Launch of the website gathering the essential UNFMI documents
and statements
OHCHR Minority Fellows: Enhancing Participation of Minorities in the UN
JSOR Youth Organization: “Ibelong”: Statelessness and the Right to Citizenship
OHCHR: Telling human rights stories of minorities: Short films and conversation with OHCHR minority fellows
Tom Lantos Institute: The New Regional Forums on Minority Issues
The Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA): Educational Rights of Muslim Minorities in Europe
2019
Education, Language and the Human Rights of Minorities
Permanent Mission of Austria and MRG: Linguistic minorities and access to education in situations of conflict
and displacement
Permanent Missions of Canada and Hungary and UENA Agency: Innovative Approaches to Policy Making in
Education, Language and the Human Rights of Minorities
OHCHR Minority Fellows: 1) Media as an educational tool in promoting language and minority rights. How can
media support the implementation of linguistic rights of minorities? 2) Minority Language Policies: a way to
ensure diversity and combat discrimination?
2020
Hate speech, social media and minorities
2021
Conflict prevention and the protection of the human rights of minorities