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Contents
Page
Foreword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
PART ONE – MINORITY RIGHTS FOCUS IN THE UNITED NATIONS
Chapters
I.
Overview: development of minority rights in international law . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
II.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. . . . . . . 8
III.
The United Nations Human Rights Council and its subsidiary bodies. . . . . . . . . 21
IV.
The United Nations special procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
V.
Human rights treaty bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
PART TWO – OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM
VI.
The United Nations Development Programme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
VII. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
VIII. The United Nations Children’s Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
IX.
The International Labour Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
X.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. . . . . . . . 80
PART THREE – REGIONAL SYSTEMS
XI.
The human rights system of the African Union. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
XII. The Council of Europe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
XIII. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
XIV. The European Union. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
XV. The inter-American human rights system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Annexes
I.
Core documents
Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic,
Religious and Linguistic Minorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Commentary to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons
Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities of
the Working Group on Minorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
II.
Useful websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171