South Florida’s community college presidents are fighting a legislative proposal they argue would especially hurt low-income people and minorities — who make up the majority of their student bodies. More...
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31 décembre 2017
ECMI expands cooperation networks in Central Asia
After strategic meetings of the ECMI team in October, the ECMI has now expanded cooperation networks in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
At the OSCE Academy, the ECMI team delivered a presentation about ECMI and a lecture with a general introduction to Minority Rights in Europe. The lecture was attended by the students of the OSCE Academy and faculty members who have expressed interest in the ECMI’s activities, internship opportunities and in the topic of minority protection in Europe overall. More...
31 décembre 2017
ECMI Side Event at the OSCE Ministerial Council 2017
08. December 2017. The ECMI team organized the side event at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Vienna. The event aimed to present and promote a number of initiatives discussed in the report of the 2016 project titled "Bridge Building and Integration in Diverse Societies". More...
31 décembre 2017
New JEMIE is ONLINE: Volume 16, Issue 3
Volume 16, Issue 3, 2017 of the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE) is now online. A general JEMIE issue with articles on a selection of themes is available for download on ECMI web-page.
The third JEMIE issue for the year 2017 includes two articles on various topics and a commentary within the areas of ethnopolitics and minority issues. More...
31 décembre 2017
ECMI Working Papers #101, #102 and #103 are now ONLINE!
Italy, Britain, Russia, and Georgia being in focus, the recent ECMI Working Papers discuss issues such as radicalization, right-wing populism, and importance of topographical landscape. More...
31 décembre 2017
Minorities in Caucasus: Dialogue and education are essential for a stable future
Education is a cornerstone in preserving the linguistic identity of minorities, while dialogue is essential for a stable future: these were some of the conclusions of the FUEN seminar Minorities in Caucasus. The representatives of Germans in Georgia, Azeris in Georgia, Ahıska Turks in Russia, Ahıska Turks in Azerbaijan and Talysh in Azerbaijan took part in the seminar held last week from 13.-15.12. in Flensburg, Germany. More...
31 décembre 2017
The Minority SafePack petition campaign has been launched in the Basque country
The petition campaign for the Minority SafePack Initiative in the Basque country, coordinated by the Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV) started with the launch of the Euskara language version of the minority-safepack.eu website and a press conference on December 19th in Bilbao. More...
11 décembre 2017
SAVE the DATE for the ECMI Public Lecture: Policies toward Roma in Europe
The lecture will provide a broad introduction to Roma in Europe as an object of policy, with an emphasis on Eastern Europe, where roughly three quarters of Roma in Europe reside. Beginning with a brief look at Roma’s probable origins, the first part of the lecture treats issues related to terminology and relates these to difficulties encountered in measuring Romani populations. The second part of the lecture consists in a rough sketch of policies targeting Roma before 1990, focusing on the assimilationist policies enacted by East European Communist regimes. The third and final part of the lecture examines major international initiatives targeting Roma in post-Communist Europe. More...
11 décembre 2017
FUEN seminar ‘Minorities in Caucasus: Dialogue for a stable future’ coming up in December in Flensburg
On the 13th–15th of December 2017, The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) will organize the second seminar ‘Minorities in Caucasus: Dialogue for a stable future’ in Flensburg, Germany. The aim of the seminar is to give minority representatives from Caucasus the opportunity for hosted discussions and the exchange of ideas. More...
11 décembre 2017
Deeply Rooted in the Regions: minorities are active partners in regional development
Minorities contribute to the economic and cultural development of their homeland regions, they are bridge-builders in interregional cooperation, yet their contribution is not always recognised and the resources they can offer are not always put to good use – these were some of the conclusions of FUEN’ two-day conference in Brussels. The event on minority communities and language groups in the EU Regions entitled Deeply Rooted in the Regions, held between the 30th of November and December the 1st was hosted by the Committee of the Regions. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)