Program 2022

Global Minority Rights Summer School 2022

Review, Rethink, Reform: 30th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities

July 4-15, 2022

(all times refer to Budapest time, UTC +2)

 

WEEK 1

Monday, July 4

The Human Rights of Minorities-Day 1

13:45-14:30

Welcome and Introductions

 

Anna-Mária Bíró, Tom Lantos Institute

Balázs Vizi, National University of Public Service

Corinne Lennox, Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Christophe Van der Beken, Addis Ababa University Zsófia Farkas, Minority Rights Group Europe

 

Participant Introductions

14:30-15:30

International Order and Minority Rights: Functions and Evolution of International Minority Protection Norms

 

Corinne Lennox, School of Advanced Study, University of London Anna-Mária Bíró, Tom Lantos Institute

15:30-16:30

Human Rights of Minorities and Racial Discrimination

 

David Keane, Dublin City University

Tuesday, July 5

Minorities at the United Nations

14:00-15:30

Mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues

 

Fernand de Varennes, UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues

15:30-16:00

Regional Forums on Minority Issues

 

Evelin Verhas, Tom Lantos Institute

 

 

Wednesday, July 6

The Human Rights of Minorities-Day 2

14:30-15:30

Human Rights of Minorities: Cultural Rights and Their Intersection with Minorities and Minority Rights

 

Alexandra Xanthaki, UN Special Rapporteur on cultural rights

15:30-16:30

Human Rights of Minorities: Religious Freedom and Its Intersection with Religious Minorities and Minority Rights

 

Heiner Bielefeldt, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

 

Thursday, July 7

Minority Protection Regimes: Europe

09:00-10:00

Overview of the European Minority Protection Regime

 

Elzbieta Kuzborska-Pacha, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

10:00-11:00

Case Study: SafePack Initiative – Grassroots mobilization for the better protection of minorities

 

Lorant Vincze, Federal Union of European Nationalities

11:00

The Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA) and the political system of North Macedonia.

 

Nikola Donev

 

Friday, July 8

Practical Sessions

14:00-14:30

Minority Forum Info

 

Marcus Oda, Tom Lantos Institute

14:30-15:15

UN Forum Statements and Recommendations

 

Marina Shupac, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

15:15-16:00

UN Treaty Bodies

 

Evelin Verhas, Tom Lantos Institute

 

WEEK 2

Monday, July 11

Minority Protection Regimes: Africa

14:00-15:00

The African Union and Minority Protection: Recent Developments

 

Solomon Ayele Dersso, African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights

15:00-16:00

Case Study: Ethiopia

 

Getachew Assefa, Addis Ababa University School of Law

16:00

Somaliland Minority Activist Realise Transformation towards Inclusion and Equity (SMARTIE)

 

Mohamud Ismail

 

Tuesday, July 12

Americas

14:00-15:00

Case Study: Afro-Descendants in Colombia

 

Esther Ojulari, Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento

15:00-16:00

Case Study: Indigenous People in Canada

 

Teresa Edwards, Legacy of Hope Foundation

16:00

The self-determination right and legal recognition: The case in the Falklands/Malvinas and Crimea

 

Jumadurdy Potjimov

 

Wednesday, July 13

Group Work

11:00-12:30

AM Tutorial: Present, review and provide feedback on statements in break-out groups

 

Marina Shupac, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Evelin Verhas, Tom Lantos Institute

14:00-15:30

PM Tutorial: Present, review and provide feedback on statements in break-out groups

 

Marina Shupac, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Evelin Verhas, Tom Lantos Institute

 

Thursday, July 14

Asia

14:00-15:00

Grassroots mobilization for the better protection of minorities: Uyghurs

 

Dolkun Isa, World Uyghur Congress

15:00-16:00

Grassroots mobilization for protection of minority rights: Dalits

 

Manjula Pradeep, Dalit Human Rights Defenders Network Project

16:00

What do we know about the Hazara Genocide in Afghanistan?

 

Rezai Hussain

 

Friday, July 15

Participant Presentations and Q&A with the Special Rapporteur on minority issues

13:00-15:00

Participant Presentations

 

Displacement, Quest for Identity and Insurgency: Emerging women writer’s voices from the North East India

Simran Dhingra

 

Bulgaria’s lack of cultural policies towards minorities and the struggle of preserving the authenticity of the language of the Turkish minority within the context of the double diglossia phenomenon

Dzhafer Saatcha

 

 

Minority Rights Protection Visa vis Ethiopian socio-cultural and political System

 

Belayneh Yeshaneh

 

Conflict and kin-states cooperation: Assistance, politicization and exclusionism of Ukrainian minorities in Central and Eastern Europe

Edoardo Castiglioni

15:00-15:30

“Protecting Minority Rights: A Practical Guide on Developing Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Legislation”

 

Claude Cahn, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

15:30-15:45

Concluding Remarks