Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

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Promoting Minority Rights through Education

Zora Popova

May 2013

European Centre for Minority Issues

Abstract

The paper explores the role of the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education as a tool for the promotion and protection of the minority rights in Europe and as a mechanism for fostering the implementation of the provisions of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.