The annual FUEN Seminar of the Working Group Slavic Minorities will take place between 18th-21st October 2018 in Mlynky / Pilisszentkereszt, Hungary. It is organised by the FUEN in cooperation with its member organisation Celoštátna slovenská samošpráva v Maďarsku (CSSM).
For the second time after 2009, the Slovak minority in Hungary is hosting the Seminar of the Slavic Minorities, which is a good opportunity to present their community and structures. More...
The first Expert Meeting of the Minority SafePack Initiative took place in Brussels on Wednesday, 10 October 2018. Eighteen experts from different European states with diverse areas of activity and professional background took part in the meeting to discuss the next steps and to form the working groups in order to develop detailed law proposals based on the nine points included in the succesful European Citizens’ Initiative. The Expert Meeting was held at FUEN’s Europe Office in Brussels. More...
There are still many European citizen’s who don’t know about the Minority SafePack Initiative. We will work towards spreading the message of the MSPI and we will ask majority communities for their support. We need to talk about our goal in the capitals of EU Member States so that we can secure the political support our initiative needs. More...
The FUEN’s delegation visited Ukraine in preparation for its 70th Congress and had meetings with local member organisations, the OSCE mission in Ukraine and the European Centre for Minority Issues office in Ukraine. The minority umbrella organisation’s President pointed out that Ukraine chose the European path of integration, and this choice comes with responsibilities, the main one being to respect the democratic rules and the rule of law, and one of the rules defining democracy is that it is not possible for the state to narrow the existing rights. More...
A delegation of the German Local Government of the 13th district in Budapest, Hungary visited FUEN during their study trip through the Danish-German border region last Wednesday, 8 August 2018.
The delegates were informed about FUEN and its commitment to the autochthonous national minorities in Europe. More...
The UNESCO International Research and Training Centre for Rural Education (INRULED) and UIL have launched a research project on basic and non-formal education for ethnic minority groups living in communities along the Mekong River. The launch took place at the International Seminar on Education for Rural Community, in Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic, in August 2018. More...
While acknowledging some progress on Roma issues and emerging potential for moving towards integrated schools, the Council of Europe’s Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities concludes in its new opinion that national minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina do not enjoy effective access to their rights. More...
While the Committee of Experts of The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, acknowledges the efforts undertaken by the authorities in protecting regional and minority languages spoken in Finland, it recommends that further measure are needed, according to a report published today. More...
The executive vice president of the Council on Postsecondary Education told lawmakers Thursday that under-represented minorities and low-income college students need more support services to succeed in college. More...
Fairness without demographics in repeated loss minimization
Adrian Colyer, The Morning Paper, 2018/08/23
The key to representing minorities fairly is to recognize that there are minorities. But what if information about minorities isn't in the data? A lot of machine learning datasets have this problem, which is why they perform poorly with respect to them. A speech-recognition system might perform poorly with minority accents, for example. More...
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