When black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) students come to my careers consultancy, it means they haven’t been hearing the right things from their uni. One student told me he didn’t feel his white careers advisors could relate to his experience of life as a young black male. More...
By Madeline St. Amour. In areas with higher populations of underrepresented minorities, students borrow to pay for college more often, and also default on student loans more often, according to a study released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. More...
On the 11th of October, a delegation of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) visited Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. More...
Digitalisation and media open up many opportunities for minority groups, but there are also new challenges associated with them: Which measures need to be taken to offer applications and digital media contents in small languages? Where do the opportunities lie? How can barriers be surpassed? Those amongst other questions are going to be addressed at the three-day meeting hosted by the Arman Community of Romania. More...
The promoters of the Minority SafePack European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) were vindicated for the second time by the European Court of Justice in a case brought against it by Romania. On June 28 2017, the country brought proceedings before the Court seeking the annulment of the Commission’s decision to register the ECI. The decision of the General Court confirms that the European Commission took the right decision when – also following a previous ruling of the Court – it gave the ECI the green light. More...
These are among the key findings of the new Opinion on Montenegro published today by the Council of Europe’s body, the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM). The opinion covering the period from June 2013 to March 2019, was published together with the Government’s comments. See also the Opinion in Albanian and Roma languages as well as the Government’s comments in Albanian and Roma. More...
Après dix-huit mois de discussions et de débats en ligne menés dans un espace de collaboration partagé amorcé grâce à EPALE, notre partenariat transnational réunissant OikoPoli (Grèce), Nazilli (Turquie), I Training 2000 (Italie), MAPS (Écosse) et CRAICNI (Irlande du Nord) a appris, au printemps 2018, que nous avions obtenu une bourse Erasmus+ pour un projet de deux ans devant démarrer en septembre de la même année.Ce projet s’intitule : CAST4Innovation pour (Cultural Awareness Support Training for Innovation). Plus...The aim of the visit was to secure the support of the Government and Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania for the Minority SafePack Initiative. Supported by 1,128,385 EU citizens – including 18,990 Lithuanians – Minority SafePack is a European Citizens' Initiative that contains 9 proposals intended to form a foundation for the establishment of a comprehensive EU minority protection framework. More...
Over the past three years, Georgia has strengthened its legislative framework for promotion of rights of national minorities and made visible efforts to enhance diversity. However, more effective data collection is necessary, the efforts to promote use of minority languages in education and in relations with the administration are below the required standards, and minority issues are politicized in Georgian society. More...Mosques and charitable organizations i.e. pious foundations belonging to the Turks of Rhodes (Rodos) and Kos (İstanköy) in Greece, a member minority group of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), are being abandoned or disposed due to unlawful and arbitrary practices of Greece. The FUEN criticizes the closure of places of worship which are of great importance in the religious life of Rhodes and Kos Turks, and condemn the sale of real estate properties as an important source of income in meeting social, cultural and religious needs of Turks on the islands. More...
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