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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- Copyright 2006 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1570-7865
- eISSN
- 2211-6117
- DOI
- 10.1163/22116117-90000028
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
* I. Introduction The United Nations Working Group on Minorities was established in and met in June for its eleventh session. I chaired the Working Group for ten years before I decided in not to stand for another election to the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, where I had been a member for years. Leaving the Sub-Commission implied also leaving the Working Group on Minorities, since it is a subsidiary body of the Sub-Commission, and is composed of five members (one from each of the five regions into which the UN divides the world) in addition to a great number of active observers with speaking rights: minority representatives, government representatives, international agencies and scholars. The achievements of the Working Group were not only due to their very active contributions, including numerous working papers, but also to the many minority representatives from around the world, the non-governmental organizations where the most persistent and constructive was the Minority Rights Group International and the many scholars who took an active part and made the Working Group rather unique in the UN system. The purpose of this short paper is to provide a brief description of
Journal
European Yearbook of Minority Issues Online – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2004