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FUEN - Congress to take place in Slovenia in May – president announced his participation
06.04.2010
The 55th FUEN-Congress will take place from 12 – 15 May in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana / Laibach. Yesterday the office of the president of Slovenia announced that President Danilo Türk will participate at the largest meeting of autochthonous minorities in Europe. Last year already a delegation of FUEN was in the capital of Slovenia and held ...
European human rights bodies call for decisive action against racism and xenophobia
19.03.2010
Strasbourg, Warsaw, Vienna, 19.03.2010 – In a joint statement ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the Council of Europe’s European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA...
PACE adopted Hunault´s report
28.01.2010
On 27 January 2010, the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) discussed within the framework of the I. Ordinary General Session the report on “Freedom of religion and other human rights for non-Muslim minorities in Turkey and for the Muslim minority in Thrace (Eastern Greece)”, prepared by Michel Hunault, member of the PACE Committee o...
Latvian parliamentarian Boriss Cilevics’ report was published
25.01.2010
On 20 January 2010, the report on “Minority protection in Europe: best practices and deficiencies in implementation of common standards” prepared by Latvian parliamentarian Boriss Cilevics, member of the Sub-Committee on Rights of Minorities in Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe was published. It is expressed in the report that fair tr...
The Lisbon Treaty comes into effect and the new EU Commission has been announced – what does it mean for the minorities of Europe?
15.12.2009
by Jan Diedrichsen Eight years of political struggle, setbacks and disappointments included, have come to an end for now. On Tuesday 1 December 2009 the Lisbon Treaty will come into effect and Commission President Barroso announced the 26 members of his team of Commissioners. They will – provided that they will get the approval by the European P...
Cardin, Hastings troubled by spreading Swiss discrimination
07.12.2009
WASHINGTON—Swiss politicians should lead their country in tolerance and denounce those who seek to ban religious cemeteries from the European country, leaders of the U.S. Helsinki Commission said today. Two days after the country voted to ban construction of Muslim minarets, Christophe Darbellay, president of the mainstream Christian Democratic...
Statement by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance on the ban of the construction of minarets in Switzerland
03.12.2009
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) wishes to express its deep concern about the results of the Swiss popular initiative which approved the inclusion, in the Federal Constitution, of a new provision banning the construction of minarets. In its report on Switzerland published on 15 September 2009, ECRI clearly regretted ...
Cardin, Hastings: Ban on minarets in Switzerland should be overturned
02.12.2009
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin, Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) and Co-Chairman Congressman Alcee L. Hastings expressed today their concerns with results of a referendum in Switzerland that would ban construction of minarets in that country. "The Swiss vote to ban minarets ...
Swiss citizens said “no” to the construction of new minarets
30.11.2009
On November 2009, 57,5% of the voters at the conducted referendum in Switzerland voted with a “yes” to the ban of the construction of new minarets in Switzerland. According to the final results of the referendum, only 4 of the 26 cantons opposed this prohibition. In Switzerland with a population of 7.5 million, only 4 mosques with a minaret can be ...
FUEN writes letter to all heads of states and governments and to the EU-Commission
02.11.2009
The 85 member organisations gathered in FUEN addressed a letter to the heads of states and governments as well as to the president of the EU-Commission. The letter to Mr. Barroso With the letter the delegates forward a resolution in which they ask for the creation of an EU-commissioner for minority issues or the establishment of a specific re...
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