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Alexandra C. Budabin @acbudabin.bsky.social · 28d

There's still time to submit to the 2025 Student Minority Projects Challenge! Don't miss the opportunity to provide input to the UN Special Rapporteur on #MinorityIssues Nicolas Levrat and present your work at the UN Forum in Geneva. Details and entry form here: www.academicminority.net

Academic Network for Minority Issues

"[Young people] are critical agents of positive change and we welcome the important contributions of young people to peace and security, sustainable development and human rights." 1 United Nation...

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Alexandra C. Budabin @acbudabin.bsky.social · Sep 4

10 days left until the deadline! If you are a university student who has completed project on #minorityissues during the 2024/2025 AY, consider submitting to the Student Minority Projects Challenge. The winner will present his/her research during this year’s UN Forum on Minority Issues.

Minority Rights - Eurac Research @euracminorities.bsky.social · Aug 25

UNSR on Minority Issues launches new network with a call for student-led research www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/und...

UNSR on Minority Issues launches new network with a call for student-led research

The UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues Nicolas Levrat has launched a new academic network to identify and elevate student-directed research. The network is currently running the first edition of...

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Minority Rights - Eurac Research @euracminorities.bsky.social · Aug 25

UNSR on Minority Issues launches new network with a call for student-led research www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/und...

UNSR on Minority Issues launches new network with a call for student-led research

The UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues Nicolas Levrat has launched a new academic network to identify and elevate student-directed research. The network is currently running the first edition of...

www.eurac.edu

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Minority Rights - Eurac Research @euracminorities.bsky.social · Jul 28

#midas A large-scale police operation at the #Peršmanhof memorial has drawn criticism from civil society and political leaders. The incident has triggered a debate about remembrance culture, minority rights, and the role of state authority in Austria
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The raid at the Peršmanhof memorial: what it means for Austria’s Slovene minority

A large-scale police operation at the Peršmanhof memorial in southern Austria, one of the country’s most significant memorial sites dedicated to resistance and civilian victims of the Nazi regime, has...

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Council of Europe @coe.int · Jul 29

Throwback to the first-ever Democracy Hackathon – part of the New Democratic Pact for Europe! 

 Meet The Fact-Checking Foxes from Italy – 1st Prize winners for their classroom-ready, game-based pre-bunking tool that helps teens fight misinformation!

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Jul 22

"This rigorously researched and engagingly written book offers a compelling explanation for why some perpetrators of gross human rights violations are prosecuted and why some escape justice."

Escaping Justice by Cyanne E. Loyle, Coming Soon

#HumanRights #LawSky #Politics #BookSky

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Cover of Escaping Justice featuring an image of barbed wire

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Center for Autonomy Experience @autonomyexperience.bsky.social · Jul 21

📢 Call for student projects on minority issues!

🌐 Nicolas Levrat, the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues, is seeking input from student groups on how to build pluralistic and diverse societies.

⏳ Deadline for submission: 15 September 2025.

👉 More information: www.academicminority.net

Academic Network for Minority Issues

"[Young people] are critical agents of positive change and we welcome the important contributions of young people to peace and security, sustainable development and human rights." United Nations....

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Jakob Volgger @jakob-volgger.eu · Jul 9

💡 Interested in the history of the European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages (MIDAS)?

📕 I wrote a book chapter about it: 'MIDAS and Minority Language Newspapers: Two Decades of European Collaboration'.

👉 You can read it here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Minority Rights - Eurac Research @euracminorities.bsky.social · Jul 7

Zweite Etappe der Euregio-Akademie fand vom 4. bis 6. Juli in Bozen statt – 25 junge Erwachsene suchten interdisziplinären Zugang zu Zukunftsthemen www.eurac.edu/de/institute...

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · Jul 7

The odds are stacked against us, but sometimes, human rights defenders win. My Daily Brief today:
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A Victory in Geneva: Daily Brief

In Human Rights Watch’s Daily Brief today, Andrew Stroehlein describes a struggle – and a victory – for #Eritrea’s victims at the UN Human Rights Council.

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Minority Rights - Eurac Research @euracminorities.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our #Dictionary of (non) politically correct words is now live on our website — easier to find, easier to share!
Researching sensitive topics matters — not just for minorities, but for society as a whole.
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Minority Rights - Eurac Research @euracminorities.bsky.social · Jul 2

Venerdì scorso i ricercatori Alice Engl e Andrea Carla hanno partecipato al Polit-Apéro organizzato da Politika dove hanno discusso le recenti elezioni comunali di Bolzano e Merano, analizzandone vincitori, vinti e prospettive.

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Polit-Apéro

Eurac Research è un centro di ricerca privato con sede a Bolzano. I nostri ricercatori si dedicano a ciò che per loro è lavoro e vocazione: un futuro migliore.

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Minority Rights - Eurac Research @euracminorities.bsky.social · Jun 12

As #PrideMonth unfolds, many celebrate with parades and corporate slogans. But behind the rainbow flags lie the origins of the #LGBTQIA+ rights movement: the 1969 Stonewall Riots, led by #trans and #queer women of color who refused to stay silent. www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/gen...

“Good gays”, “bad queers”, and the cost of respectability politics

Why remembering the complex, trans-led roots of the 1969 Stonewall Riots matters in an age of resurgent respectability politics and state-backed transphobia.

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Melissa Bynes-Brooks, MBA, CRT @melbbrooks.bsky.social · Mar 25

“Minorities have the right to choose, where relevant, the nationality or ethnicity to which they are officially assigned.”
United Nations~ Nicolas Levrat, the Special Rapporteur on minority issues.

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Minorities should have identity documents that reflect who they really are: UN expert

GENEVA – People belonging to a minority group should be given due recognition of their identity, a UN expert said today.“The identity assigned to persons belonging to minorities, usually through thei...

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