TA B L E O F T H E M E S O F T H E F O U R T E E N S E S S I O N S O F T H E F O R U M A N D I T S S I D E E V E N T S YEAR THEME 2008 Minorities and the Right to Education 2009 Minorities and Effective Political Participation SIDE EVENTS UNESCO: Overcoming Inequalities in Education: The Importance of Inclusion MRG: Challenging the Denial of Education Rights   UNPO, MRG: Minorities & Natural Resources: Promoting Minority Rights in the Development and Management of Natural Resources 2010 Minorities and Effective Participation in Economic Life OHCHR: Towards Effective Participation of Minorities in Economic Life: Addressing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the Application of the Minorities Declaration UNICEF, MRG: Outcomes of a stock-take of UNICEF’s policy and practice in the promotion of the rights of minority children and women OHCHR: Empowering minority women to claim their rights: identifying effective practices 2011 Guaranteeing the Rights of Minority Women 2012 Implementing the United Nations Declaration on Minority Rights: Identifying Positive Practices and Opportunities 2013 Beyond Freedom of Religion or Belief: Guaranteeing the Rights of Religious Minorities   2014 Preventing and Addressing Violence and Atrocity Crimes Targeted against Minorities   2015 Minorities in the Criminal Justice System OHCHR: Minority Rights Protection in the UN System: Looking back and looking ahead--A Forum for the Future Minorities in Situations of Humanitarian Crises OHCHR: Protecting Minorities through Visual Art MRG, UNPO: Violence against minority women and their access to justice Al-Hakim Foundation: Minorities situations and the actual humanitarian situation in Iraq Alliance Defending Freedom: Book Launch: “Never Again: Legal Responses to a Broken Promise in the Middle East” Maloca Internationale and Others: Best Practices to protect minorities in humanitarian crises in Iraq and Syria 2016 MRG: Excluded: Statelessness minorities in time of crisis UNPO, Society for Threatened People: Forgotten crises, forgotten victims: Minorities and Humanitarian Challenges International Huma Rights Observer Pakistan: Minorities in situation of humanitarian crises in Pakistan CANCELLED International Investment Centre: Minority Healthcare Issues in situations of humanitarian crises in post-soviet countries 2017 Minority Youth: Towards Diverse and Inclusive Societies Permanent Mission of Austria, MRG: Minority Youth: No equality without economic opportunity AfriForum: Minority Youth Rights in South Africa