Minority Rights in Europe

The participating States will adopt, where Proceeding from the Document of the necessary, special measures for the purpose of Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the ensuring to persons belonging to national Human Dimension, we will co-operate to minorities full equality with the other citizens in strengthen democratic institutions and to pro the exercise and enjoyment of human rights and mot. [...] This bal • to require the participating states to elaborate ancing would be no different than the current special machinery for the peaceful resolution of balancing approach to the resolution of conflict conflicts between the rights of minorities as ing individual rights, for example, the right of guaranteed under the laws of different jurisdic freedom of expression versus the right to priva t. [...] The State should Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of actively involve the minority group in the plan ning and formulation of such development 11/ Policies and Practices in CSCE participating states plans; Report of the Working Group on • to provide such substantive minority guaran The Crisis of Empires and tees as equal ability to participate in the social and political life of the nati. [...] At the time of the conference, voluntary help was given by members of the LAS and MRG-Denmark as well as by members of the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, USSR Academy of Sciences, members of the Minority Studies Institute, University of Copenhagen, and members of the Student Club of LAS, to whom the conference expressed its warm appreciation. [...] part in the democratization of science; to con MRG also works through the United Nations, firm the principles of independent scientific CSCE and other international human rights research; to advance the role and the authority fora, speaking out on the violations suffered by of science and the status of A.