European Yearbook of Minority Issues.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- PART I: ARTICLES -- A. General Articles Section -- The 'Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic': From Conflict-Driven State-Building to State-Driven Nation-Building -- The Role and Activities of the OSCE Mission to Moldova in the Process of Transdniestrian Conflict Resolution -- Minorities in New European Democracies: A Source of Destabilization? -- Roma Politics and Policy in Hungary 1999-2003 -- Language Legislation and Language Rights in the United Kingdom -- Minorities as a Threat: A Historical Reconstruction of State-Minority Relations in Turkey -- Changing Concepts of Interest and the Annan Plan for Cyprus -- Elaborating A Catalogue of Best Practices of Effective Participation of National Minorities: Review of the Opinions of the Advisory Committee Regarding Article 15 of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities -- Reversing Ethnic and Cultural Cleansing: The Role of Annex 8 in Reclaiming History, Promoting Post-War Reconciliation and Preserving the Unique Cultural Heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Party System, Electoral Systems and Minority Representation in the Republic of Macedonia from 1990 to 2002 -- Territorial Autonomy and European National Minorities: South Tyrol, the Basque Country and the Åland Islands -- The Baltic States before EU Accession: Recent Developments in Minority Protection -- B. Special Focus: Belgium -- Pacifying National Majorities in the Brussels Capital Region: What About the Immigrant Minority Groups? -- Personality versus Territoriality: Belgium and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities -- The Application of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in Belgium: The Opinion of the European Commission for Democracy through Law -- C. Special Focus: New Minorities.

The Rights of 'Old' versus 'New' Minorities -- Legal Indicators for Social Inclusion of New Minorities Generated by Immigration -- PART II: REPORTS -- A. International Developments -- Review of the Monitoring Process of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities -- Developments in the Field of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages -- The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights -- The Protection of Minorities in the Activities of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe -- The Activities of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities: June 2002 &amp -- #8211 -- June 2003 -- Review of the 8th Session of the United Nations Working Group on Minorities -- The Jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee and Other Treaty Monitoring Bodies -- The Jurisprudence of the American and African Regional Human Rights Bodies -- Protection of National Minorities through Bilateral Agreements -- B. National Developments -- Constitutional Law on the Rights of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia -- Legal Status and Rights of Minorities in Serbia and Montenegro -- The New Bulgarian Religious Law: Restrictive and Discriminatory -- The Drafting of a Law against Discrimination on the Grounds of Racial or Ethnic Origin in Germany: Constraints in Constitutional and European Community Law -- The Ombudsperson Institution in Kosovo and the Protection of Minorities -- The War in Chechnya and Actions Taken by the Council of Europe -- Appendix -- List of International Norms.

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