“Online, it only takes few hate statements, repeated and shared many times, to cause significant harm and lead to real-life crimes.” [Anzhelika Bielova] Listen to Anzhelika Bielova’s elaboration on the impact of hate speech against Roma in Ukraine, where even politicians include discrimination in their public speeches. Thank you Anzhelika for your enthusiasm and […]
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The Introduction of the report gives brief summaries of the main concerns and reflections of the EU Special Adviser on Constitutional and Legal Reform and Human Rights in Georgia. The body of the report goes deeper into seven key areas in relation to human rights: judiciary, penitentiary, law enforcement, minority rights, political participation, freedom of […]
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This paper aims to discuss the institutional set-up around civil integration and minority protection issues in Georgia since the ‘Rose Revolution’, and the study reviews the state structures relevant for governance and legislative practices on civil integration and minority issues. It seeks to provide an overview of the institutional problems that beset civic integration by […]
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This practical guide is designed as a training toolkit and reference collection that can be used by national and international organizations as well as government and other stakeholders for project development in the South Caucasus. It provides an overview of issues pertaining to ethno-national minorities in the region . It is divided in three sections. […]
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This parallel report focuses on the extent to which Belarus has met its obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the rights to equality and non-discrimination. The submission is concerned with Belarus’s performance under Article 2(2) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and with the impact which discrimination has on the enjoyment […]
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This country report analyses the human rights violations in Belarus. It provides detailed information about such violations, classifying them by categories.
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This paper analyses the constitutional rights by the constitutional courts of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), in particular, the equality and anti-discrimination clauses. The CEE is a wide and untidy mosaic of ethnic, national and religious minorities, and communism often tried to stop any open expression under the official national unity. After the fall of communism, nationalistic […]
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This paper intends to look at the interconnection of minority and migration issues.It aims to investigate the interrelation of the minority regimes adopted by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine, and migration. It seeks to open up the discussion on the extent to which certain policies and rights for national minorities can be […]
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The Hungarian community which lives in Ukraine transformed into a national minority as a result of the creation of a series of nation states on the territory of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy after World War I. The Hungarian minority in Ukraine is relatively small (156.2 thousand people) but at the same time a regional national […]
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In 2009 the EU launched the Eastern Partnership (EaP) encompassing the six Eastern countries Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. What is the EU’s policy towards minorities in these countries? Did minorities and indigenous peoples have a say in the political dialogue with the EU? Have they benefited from the main EU financial instruments? […]
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