Compilation of Lectures: Ensuring Equality and Preventing Discrimination on Ethnic Grounds

Consequently, the main aim of the lectures and the given compendium is primarily to show the limitations and the possibilities of using key definitions of equality, as well as approaches to the practical implementation of these definitions. [...] The concept of discrimination reflects only one of the components of equality and only one of the possible approaches to understanding the problem of inequality. [...] by the Council of Europe), but by the CSCE (soon renamed to the OSCE – Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) in its Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE 1990 [Copenhagen Document]. [...] Poland (2004),when the decision not to register the association of the Silesian minority as a political party was found to be valid by the Court.25 In a number of individual applications to the European Court of Human Rights, spelling of personal names in accordance with the traditions of the original language was considered an integral part of the right to private and family life. [...] The numerous conditions included in the norms of international treaties should be interpreted in the context of the principle of effective participation and not used as a pretext to deny the rights of minorities stipulated in the treaties.