Oxford LibGuides: Indigenous Peoples: legal resources: Minorities

Minorities

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (EIF 23 March 1976)
Article 27 In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exist, persons belonging to such minorities shall not be denied the right, in community with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion, or to use their own language.

Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
Offical OHCHR website. Adopted by General Assembly resolution 47/135 of 18 December 1992
United Nations: Minorities
Section of the UN's Fight Racism website.

The United Nations Declaration on Minorities by Ugo Caruso (Editor); Rainer Hofmann (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 9789004251557
Publication Date: 2015-04-02

Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
Official Secretariat website
HUDOC: FCNM

Subject searches to use in SOLO:

Minorities Legal status, laws, etc
Minorities -- Civil rights

Linguistic minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc
Linguistic rights

Ethnicity and International Law by Mohammad Shahabuddin
Call Number: Internat 570 S525.5a
ISBN: 1107096790
Publication Date: 2016
Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal Orders by Janny H. C. Leung
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 0190210338
Publication Date: 2019
Print copy is at Jurisp 510 L653.4a if preferred

Minority Rights Group (MRG) International
Official website. MRG is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) with an international governing Council that meets twice a year. We have consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and observer status with the African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights." Its reports are available as free downloads.
MAR: Minorities at risk
Free resource. "The Minorities at Risk (MAR) Project is a university-based research project that monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in all countries with a current population of at least 500,000. The project is designed to provide information in a standardized format that aids comparative research and contributes to the understanding of conflicts involving relevant groups."
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Selected project materials on more than 284 groups (the MAR database and codebook as well as detailed historical chronologies) are available through this site for researchers, public officials, journalists, students, activists, and others interested in the topic.
Human Rights Watch
A nonprofit registered in the USA makes its reports and publications available Open Access Use eg Country or Topic filter, or the search function

Roma

Romani Legal Culture

If you are interested in this topic, try the subject search below in SOLO

Law, Romani

Gypsy Law : Romani legal traditions and culture by Walter O. Weyrauch
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 0520221869
Publication Date: 2001
Print copy is at General 510 W550a

Rights Protection in the UK

Commission for Racial Equality v Dutton [1989] IRLR 8 decided that a sign displayed in a pub saying “No Travellers” was discriminatory as Romany Gypsies are a racial/ethnic group
UK Race Relations Act & amendments and the Equality Act 2010

To find commentary in SOLO
Romanies -- Legal status, laws, etc

Romanies -- Civil rights

For the protection of rights of nomadic peoples in international law please go to the guide below:

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