welcome cases resources
resources
CD

Viewing the contents of the CD requires

  • a browser, like MS Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator or mozilla, and
  • for many of the reports of legal cases, MS Word.
Programs included on the CD:
  • mozilla 1.5 browser –
    in English and in Chinese
  • MS Word viewer
  • OpenOffice.org 1.1 – works like MS Office, but is free
To install a program, go to the folder '\programs' and double-click on the .exe -file required.
General/Introductory Papers:
Some Definitions of 'Minorities'
Human Rights and the Internet:
the Website of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Treaty-Based Regime of International Human Rights Law
(Chinese version of this paper)
The Main Minority-Rights Documents
Additional information on some of the ECHR cases
for the full text of a decision, go to 'cases' and use 'search'

Treaties/Conventions:

International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights
– from www.unhchr.ch
International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
– from www.unhchr.ch
American Convention on Human Rights
– from www.cidh.org
European Convention on Human Rights
– from www.coe.int
Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities
– from www.coe.int

Links:

European Court for Human Rights (Council of Europe):
includes the HUDOC search facility for cases heard by the ECHR
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (OAS):
annual reports include cases heard by the IACHR

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The opinions, findings and conclusions expressed in materials on this site do not necessarily represent the views of the European Commission.

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