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Twenty-five years of ensuring equality in law and in fact for national minorities
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
1 February 2023
Strasbourg
The violent break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s consolidated the resolve in the Council of Europe to draft a dedicated legally binding treaty for the protection of national minorities. This is how, twenty-five years ago, the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities was...
Roma children begging: criminalisation is not the only answer, says anti-discrimination committee
Committee of Experts on Roma and Traveller Issues
1 February 2023
Strasbourg
Begging among Roma children, which had been decreasing in many European countries at the beginning of this decade, has recently become more visible again, along with a rise in anti-Roma and anti-Traveller discourse and attitudes in many member states, according to a report of the Council of...
