Minority Rights
@minorityrightseu.bsky.social
Sharing developments and academic commentary on (national, ethnic, religious, indigenous) minorities and equality law, with special focus on Europe.
Set up as part of MINOTEE: https://tinyurl.com/y8d7u8ud. Not reflecting official institutional positions.
Set up as part of MINOTEE: https://tinyurl.com/y8d7u8ud. Not reflecting official institutional positions.
Gideon Horváth (interdisciplinary artist):
“Being different has been demonised: we are moving backwards in the emancipation process...
...Fidesz named the LGBTQ+ community as their enemy number two, after migrants.”
“Being different has been demonised: we are moving backwards in the emancipation process...
...Fidesz named the LGBTQ+ community as their enemy number two, after migrants.”
November 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Gideon Horváth (interdisciplinary artist):
“Being different has been demonised: we are moving backwards in the emancipation process...
...Fidesz named the LGBTQ+ community as their enemy number two, after migrants.”
“Being different has been demonised: we are moving backwards in the emancipation process...
...Fidesz named the LGBTQ+ community as their enemy number two, after migrants.”
Unequal treatment and gender stereotypes persist, and women and girls from national minorities face intersectional discrimination. @coe.int highlights challenges: gaps in gender data, violence, unequal access to education, and underrepresentation in public life.
🌐 rm.coe.int/prems-128125...
🌐 rm.coe.int/prems-128125...
October 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Unequal treatment and gender stereotypes persist, and women and girls from national minorities face intersectional discrimination. @coe.int highlights challenges: gaps in gender data, violence, unequal access to education, and underrepresentation in public life.
🌐 rm.coe.int/prems-128125...
🌐 rm.coe.int/prems-128125...
In the recent post, we highlighted the impacts and needs of preserving a minority language, as it is a major contributor to the community’s history and culture.
Discover the study of minority and minoritized languages within the European Union at: www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
Discover the study of minority and minoritized languages within the European Union at: www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
October 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
In the recent post, we highlighted the impacts and needs of preserving a minority language, as it is a major contributor to the community’s history and culture.
Discover the study of minority and minoritized languages within the European Union at: www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
Discover the study of minority and minoritized languages within the European Union at: www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
The preservation of minority languages in an increasingly globalized world is a major challenge. With the disappearance of a language, the
community’s cultural expression also starts to fade.
📖 Learn
more about the impacts and preservation strategies here: medium.com/@RetalhosMAG...
community’s cultural expression also starts to fade.
📖 Learn
more about the impacts and preservation strategies here: medium.com/@RetalhosMAG...
October 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The preservation of minority languages in an increasingly globalized world is a major challenge. With the disappearance of a language, the
community’s cultural expression also starts to fade.
📖 Learn
more about the impacts and preservation strategies here: medium.com/@RetalhosMAG...
community’s cultural expression also starts to fade.
📖 Learn
more about the impacts and preservation strategies here: medium.com/@RetalhosMAG...
Russia’s Arctic Indigenous peoples face the highest per capita losses in the war in Ukraine, often recruited disproportionately due to targeted campaigns, poverty, and systemic exclusion. Their communities risk disappearing within a generation.
📖 blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/08/...
📸Heiner Kubny
📖 blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/08/...
📸Heiner Kubny
October 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Russia’s Arctic Indigenous peoples face the highest per capita losses in the war in Ukraine, often recruited disproportionately due to targeted campaigns, poverty, and systemic exclusion. Their communities risk disappearing within a generation.
📖 blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/08/...
📸Heiner Kubny
📖 blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/08/...
📸Heiner Kubny
Read an open access chapter from Erőss, Kovály, and Tátrai on how war shapes ethnic dynamics, migration, and demographics for Ukraine’s Hungarian minority, and how their lives and coping strategies transcend borders.
📖 dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...
📷 Adrien Vautier
#minority #ukraine #academicsky
📖 dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...
📷 Adrien Vautier
#minority #ukraine #academicsky
October 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Read an open access chapter from Erőss, Kovály, and Tátrai on how war shapes ethnic dynamics, migration, and demographics for Ukraine’s Hungarian minority, and how their lives and coping strategies transcend borders.
📖 dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...
📷 Adrien Vautier
#minority #ukraine #academicsky
📖 dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781...
📷 Adrien Vautier
#minority #ukraine #academicsky
“As I crossed the border into Zakarpattia a couple of hours ago, I heard Ukrainian, I heard Slovak, I heard Hungarian. And I knew I was standing not only in Ukraine, but in the very heart of Europe.” Marta Kos, Commissioner, visited Uzhhorod. Read her speech below.
🎤 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
🎤 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
October 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“As I crossed the border into Zakarpattia a couple of hours ago, I heard Ukrainian, I heard Slovak, I heard Hungarian. And I knew I was standing not only in Ukraine, but in the very heart of Europe.” Marta Kos, Commissioner, visited Uzhhorod. Read her speech below.
🎤 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
🎤 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Explore Selma Selman’s selected works and an interview on her Flowers of Life exhibition, where she explains how trauma and pain can be transformed into resistance and how art serves as a tool for communication.
📖 www.selmanselma.com/activism
📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxSI...
📷 Selma Selman
#art
📖 www.selmanselma.com/activism
📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxSI...
📷 Selma Selman
#art
October 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Explore Selma Selman’s selected works and an interview on her Flowers of Life exhibition, where she explains how trauma and pain can be transformed into resistance and how art serves as a tool for communication.
📖 www.selmanselma.com/activism
📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxSI...
📷 Selma Selman
#art
📖 www.selmanselma.com/activism
📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxSI...
📷 Selma Selman
#art
See how lack of change has hindered Bosnia and Herzegovina’s EU accession, as noted in the 2019 Commission Opinion (point 4f), requiring “equality and non-discrimination of citizens, notably by addressing the Sejdić-Finci ECtHR case law.”
📖 enlargement.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...
📷 Shutterstock
📖 enlargement.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...
📷 Shutterstock
October 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
See how lack of change has hindered Bosnia and Herzegovina’s EU accession, as noted in the 2019 Commission Opinion (point 4f), requiring “equality and non-discrimination of citizens, notably by addressing the Sejdić-Finci ECtHR case law.”
📖 enlargement.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...
📷 Shutterstock
📖 enlargement.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...
📷 Shutterstock
Almir’s poems reveal the daily prejudice Roma face in Bosnia and Herzegovina, stemming from political under-representation, inadequate language policies, and failure to implement the Sejdić-Finci ruling, hindering equality and EU accession.
📖 minorityrights.org/bosnia-roma/
🎨 Selma Selman
#bosnia
📖 minorityrights.org/bosnia-roma/
🎨 Selma Selman
#bosnia
October 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Almir’s poems reveal the daily prejudice Roma face in Bosnia and Herzegovina, stemming from political under-representation, inadequate language policies, and failure to implement the Sejdić-Finci ruling, hindering equality and EU accession.
📖 minorityrights.org/bosnia-roma/
🎨 Selma Selman
#bosnia
📖 minorityrights.org/bosnia-roma/
🎨 Selma Selman
#bosnia
See the 2009 ruling declaring the Bosnian constitution discriminatory, violating Article 1 of Protocol No. 12 and Article 14 with Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 due to the applicants’ ineligibility to run for the Presidency and House of Peoples.
📖 hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre#{%22item...
📷 MRG
#bosnia #law
📖 hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre#{%22item...
📷 MRG
#bosnia #law
October 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
See the 2009 ruling declaring the Bosnian constitution discriminatory, violating Article 1 of Protocol No. 12 and Article 14 with Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 due to the applicants’ ineligibility to run for the Presidency and House of Peoples.
📖 hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre#{%22item...
📷 MRG
#bosnia #law
📖 hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre#{%22item...
📷 MRG
#bosnia #law
Tomoka Sato’s article examines China’s language assimilation policy and its use of ‘unity,’ drawing parallels between Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang, and showing how Mongolian-language education has been eroded despite official claims of equality.
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0306...
📷 Byamba-Ochir
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0306...
📷 Byamba-Ochir
October 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Tomoka Sato’s article examines China’s language assimilation policy and its use of ‘unity,’ drawing parallels between Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang, and showing how Mongolian-language education has been eroded despite official claims of equality.
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0306...
📷 Byamba-Ochir
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0306...
📷 Byamba-Ochir
Days before the decision, the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe issued an ‘urgent opinion’that warns that the amendment may conflict with Slovakia’s obligations under the Treaty on European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights.
📖 www.coe.int/en/web/venic...
📷 ta3 Denis Dufala
📖 www.coe.int/en/web/venic...
📷 ta3 Denis Dufala
October 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Days before the decision, the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe issued an ‘urgent opinion’that warns that the amendment may conflict with Slovakia’s obligations under the Treaty on European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights.
📖 www.coe.int/en/web/venic...
📷 ta3 Denis Dufala
📖 www.coe.int/en/web/venic...
📷 ta3 Denis Dufala
Susan Divald (2021) shows how the Hungarian minority in Slovakia uses commemoration and strategic wording (“self-governance” vs “autonomy”) to sustain identity post-EU accession—a helpful context for the gaps flagged by the Council of Europe.
Read article:
📖 doi.org/10.1177/0888...
#Slovakia
Read article:
📖 doi.org/10.1177/0888...
#Slovakia
September 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Susan Divald (2021) shows how the Hungarian minority in Slovakia uses commemoration and strategic wording (“self-governance” vs “autonomy”) to sustain identity post-EU accession—a helpful context for the gaps flagged by the Council of Europe.
Read article:
📖 doi.org/10.1177/0888...
#Slovakia
Read article:
📖 doi.org/10.1177/0888...
#Slovakia
Read Landau's (2017) analysis - 'The quest for legitimacy in independent Kosovo' - examining how Kosovo's "state of communities" and minority-rights strategy created internal legitimacy tensions, a must-read for context to the parliament freeze.
Open access article here:
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0090...
Open access article here:
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0090...
September 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Read Landau's (2017) analysis - 'The quest for legitimacy in independent Kosovo' - examining how Kosovo's "state of communities" and minority-rights strategy created internal legitimacy tensions, a must-read for context to the parliament freeze.
Open access article here:
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0090...
Open access article here:
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0090...
As Norway’s elections may empower the far right, Margaretha A. van Es offers a timely analysis of how Norwegian Muslims resist binary definitions of ‘moderate’ or ‘radical’ by using public protests to challenge stereotypes and assert belonging.
Open access article:
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0048...
Open access article:
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0048...
September 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
As Norway’s elections may empower the far right, Margaretha A. van Es offers a timely analysis of how Norwegian Muslims resist binary definitions of ‘moderate’ or ‘radical’ by using public protests to challenge stereotypes and assert belonging.
Open access article:
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0048...
Open access article:
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0048...
@apnews.com’s Anita Snow reviews Madeline Potter’s The Roma: A Travelling History (2025), “a fascinating look at a marginalized and misunderstood group.” Potter blends memoir and research to trace Romani persecution, resilience and culture across Europe.
Read more:
📖 apnews.com/article/roma...
Read more:
📖 apnews.com/article/roma...
September 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
@apnews.com’s Anita Snow reviews Madeline Potter’s The Roma: A Travelling History (2025), “a fascinating look at a marginalized and misunderstood group.” Potter blends memoir and research to trace Romani persecution, resilience and culture across Europe.
Read more:
📖 apnews.com/article/roma...
Read more:
📖 apnews.com/article/roma...
Baird et al. explore who is considered Indigenous in Northern Thailand, highlighting Lua, Khon Muang, Hmong, and Lisu perspectives, offering context for the Ethnic Protection Bill.
Open-access article below:
📖 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
📷 Thomson Reuters Foundation
#IndigenousRights
Open-access article below:
📖 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
📷 Thomson Reuters Foundation
#IndigenousRights
August 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Baird et al. explore who is considered Indigenous in Northern Thailand, highlighting Lua, Khon Muang, Hmong, and Lisu perspectives, offering context for the Ethnic Protection Bill.
Open-access article below:
📖 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
📷 Thomson Reuters Foundation
#IndigenousRights
Open-access article below:
📖 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
📷 Thomson Reuters Foundation
#IndigenousRights
Kenrick et al. show that securing community tenure for the Ogiek of Mount Elgon is essential for sustainable conservation. Their study indicates that collective land rights safeguard forests better than eviction-driven models.
Read for policy insight:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📷 ILC
Read for policy insight:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📷 ILC
August 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Kenrick et al. show that securing community tenure for the Ogiek of Mount Elgon is essential for sustainable conservation. Their study indicates that collective land rights safeguard forests better than eviction-driven models.
Read for policy insight:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📷 ILC
Read for policy insight:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📷 ILC
For an overview of Self-Governing National Communities in Slovenia, watch the video by the European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network illustrating their work at the municipal and state levels, the special voting register, and minority representation in parliament.
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jtn...
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jtn...
August 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
For an overview of Self-Governing National Communities in Slovenia, watch the video by the European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network illustrating their work at the municipal and state levels, the special voting register, and minority representation in parliament.
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jtn...
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jtn...
Echoing the Committee’s findings, Ljubica Djordjević shows that despite strong legal frameworks, Slovenia’s Self-Governing National Communities remain marginal, seen as beneficiaries not partners, revealing a gap between theory and practice.
📖 library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...
📷 ECMI
#academicsky
📖 library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...
📷 ECMI
#academicsky
August 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Echoing the Committee’s findings, Ljubica Djordjević shows that despite strong legal frameworks, Slovenia’s Self-Governing National Communities remain marginal, seen as beneficiaries not partners, revealing a gap between theory and practice.
📖 library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...
📷 ECMI
#academicsky
📖 library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...
📷 ECMI
#academicsky
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages urges stronger support for minority languages in Slovenia’s media and education. See links below for the article and report.
📖 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
📖 rm.coe.int/slovenia-ecr...
#europe
📖 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
📖 rm.coe.int/slovenia-ecr...
#europe
August 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages urges stronger support for minority languages in Slovenia’s media and education. See links below for the article and report.
📖 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
📖 rm.coe.int/slovenia-ecr...
#europe
📖 www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
📖 rm.coe.int/slovenia-ecr...
#europe
Learn more about the dynamics of grassroots language activism in Galicia, Spain, and examine how urban-based language revitalization initiatives can be understood through the lens of social movement theory.
📖 dx.doi.org/10.1007/s109...
📷 Spain Less Traveled
#language #academicbluesky #galicia
📖 dx.doi.org/10.1007/s109...
📷 Spain Less Traveled
#language #academicbluesky #galicia
August 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Learn more about the dynamics of grassroots language activism in Galicia, Spain, and examine how urban-based language revitalization initiatives can be understood through the lens of social movement theory.
📖 dx.doi.org/10.1007/s109...
📷 Spain Less Traveled
#language #academicbluesky #galicia
📖 dx.doi.org/10.1007/s109...
📷 Spain Less Traveled
#language #academicbluesky #galicia
Boz et al. highlight trust as key in overcoming social, cultural, and institutional barriers to Muslim women’s sports participation. Their research offers essential insights into fostering inclusion and equity in diverse sporting environments.
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0261...
📷 Reuters
#Sports #Feminism
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0261...
📷 Reuters
#Sports #Feminism
August 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Boz et al. highlight trust as key in overcoming social, cultural, and institutional barriers to Muslim women’s sports participation. Their research offers essential insights into fostering inclusion and equity in diverse sporting environments.
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0261...
📷 Reuters
#Sports #Feminism
📖 doi.org/10.1080/0261...
📷 Reuters
#Sports #Feminism
Providing key background to present dynamics, Ivan Katchanovski analyzes how historical legacies shaped the political orientations of Crimean Tatars and Gagauz. Their paths reveal the complex interplay of social and historical forces in post-Soviet politics.
📖 www.hks.re/wiki/_media/...
#Politics
📖 www.hks.re/wiki/_media/...
#Politics
August 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Providing key background to present dynamics, Ivan Katchanovski analyzes how historical legacies shaped the political orientations of Crimean Tatars and Gagauz. Their paths reveal the complex interplay of social and historical forces in post-Soviet politics.
📖 www.hks.re/wiki/_media/...
#Politics
📖 www.hks.re/wiki/_media/...
#Politics