High Commissioner on National Minorities

The Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations & Explanatory Note

Date: 2 October 2008
Type: RECOMMENDATIONS
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They are recommendations are intended to clarify how States can support and extend benefits to people belonging to national minorities residing in other countries in ways that do not strain interethnic or bilateral relations.

Recommendations on Policing in Multi-Ethnic Societies

Date: 9 February 2006
Type: RECOMMENDATIONS
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Recommendations to encourage and facilitate the adoption by States of specific measures to alleviate tensions relating to national minorities.

Warsaw guidelines

Date: 1 January 2001
Type: RECOMMENDATIONS
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Recommendations to assist national minority participation in the electoral process, elaborating on the Lund Recommendations.

Report and recommendations on the Situation of Roma and Sinti in the OSCE Area

Date: 10 March 2000
Type: RECOMMENDATIONS
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The situation of Roma and Sinti in relation to the issues of discrimination, education, living conditions and political participation

Lund Recommendations

Date: 1 September 1999
Type: RECOMMENDATIONS
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Recommendations on effective participation of national minorities in public life

Oslo Recommendations

Date: 1 February 1998
Type: RECOMMENDATIONS
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Recommendations regarding the linguistic rights of national minorities with explanatory note

Hague Recommendations

Date: 1 October 1996
Type: RECOMMENDATIONS
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Recommendations on the education rights of national minorities (Uzbek version contains text in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts)

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