What would a college look like if you could design it from scratch?
It’s a theoretical question that has been playing out in reality over the past decade in makeshift classrooms around the state, instead of on a typical college campus. More...
"Minorities in Caucasus - Dialogue For Stable Future" seminar will take place in Tbilisi, Georgia between 10-12 December 2018
From 10-12 December 2018 the third seminar "Minorities in the Caucasus - Dialogue for a Stable Future" will take place in Tbilisi, Georgia. The seminar, entitled "Political Participation - Dialogue at Eye Level" will focus on initiating dialogue between national minorities and politics, but also on the culture, language, opportunities and issues of minorities in the Caucasus. More...
Minorities without a kin-state discussed media and digitalisation at their annual meeting
Media and digitalisation as a way to counteract the disappearance of small languages were the main topics of FUEN’s Non-Kin-State Working Group’s second annual meeting, which took place between 26-28 November in Berlin. More...
3rd Forum of European Minority Regions will take place in South Tyrol between 13-14 December 2018
Under the title "Shaping our Regions", the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) is organising the third edition of the Forum of European Minority Regions between 13-14 December 2018 in Bolzano / Bozen, South Tyrol, Italy. More...
The rights of stateless people are a key issue for the FUEN
FUEN’s president proposed to the United Nation’s Forum on Minority Issues to include a call for EU member states on the adoption of the relevant proposals in the Minority SafePack Initiative. More...
FUEN needs to pay special attention to small minorities
It is regretful that instead of having this conference on Rhodes or Kos Islands to meet the local Turkish community, to see how they live, how they develop, we have to have it in Izmir – said FUEN President Loránt Vincze in his keynote speech at the International Symposium on the Turkish Identity in Rhodes and Kos on November 22 in Izmir, Turkey. More...
UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues visited Transylvania
UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Fernand de Varennes visited Transylvania, Romania between 4-6 December 2018 to take part in the conference Hungarian Minority Communities: Struggles and Opportunities, on the invitation of the FUEN – Federal Union of European Nationalities and the MACISZESZ Transylvanian Alliance of Hungarian NGOs. More...
Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia hosted the 5th annual meeting of FUEN TAG
The 5th Annual Meeting of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) Working Group (TAG) of Turkic Minorities/Communities took place on 15-18 November 2018 hosted by Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia affiliated to Republic of Moldova. From Balkans to Caucasus, thirteen Turkish minorities or communities participated at the meeting held in Comrat, capital of Gagauzia. More...
The Council of Europe calls on Switzerland to further strengthen the rights of national minorities and to combat hate speech
The Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities has called on the Swiss authorities to do more to protect the rights of persons belonging to national minorities, at a time when there is a growing intolerance, including in political discourse and on internet. More...
Universities must tackle the big ethnicity pay gap
Minority ethnic staff are stuck on the lowest rungs of the career ladder. They need more opportunities to rise up. More...