The first United Nations Mandate on minority issues / / Gay J. McDougall.

• Superior document: Studies in International Minority and Group Rights ; 10
• Author: McDougall, Gay J.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill / Martinus Nijhoff,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in International Minority and Group Rights 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (387 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Across the world, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities are subjected to hate crimes, systematic discrimination and marginalization. Religious minorities have recently faced particular threat in certain regions, while in other parts of the globe identity based on race or ethnicity has been used as a basis for exclusion. In The First United Nations Mandate on Minority Issues , Gay McDougall curates a selection of reports she produced as UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues. The collection, with her introductory analysis, reveals the challenges and opportunities faced in her attempt to highlight the plight of these oppressed communities around the world and to shape an important new mechanism for the UN’s protection of their rights.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Gay McDougall -- The First Mandate: Experiences and Lessons Learned / Gay McDougall -- Mission to Bulgaria (2011) / Gay McDougall -- Mission to Colombia (2011) / Gay McDougall -- Mission to Dominican Republic (2007) / Gay McDougall -- Mission to Ethiopia (2006) / Gay McDougall -- Mission to France (2008) / Gay McDougall -- Mission to Greece (2008) / Gay McDougall -- Mission to Viet Nam (2010) / Gay McDougall -- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for Minorities: A Review of MDG Country Reports and Poverty Reduction Strategies (2007) / Gay McDougall -- Minorities and the Discriminatory Denial or Deprivation of Citizenship (2007) / Gay McDougall -- Minority Rights and Conflict Prevention (2010) / Gay McDougall -- Recommendations from the UN Forum on Minority Issues: The Right to Equal Access to Quality Education (2008) / Gay McDougall.