الإطار القانوني الدولي لحماية حقوق الاقليات

Abstract

The study shed lights on the issue of protection of minority's rights internationally. It focuses on rights to identity as a key to any system dealing with protection of minority's rights in the light of analyzing bases of identity (religion, culture and language). This comes in an attempt to clarify the importance of protection and promotion of diversity in provinces.The study dedicates a chapter to analyzing rights to life and existence. It also talks about genocides that minorities faced throughout the contemporary history, international legal framework for protecting rights to existence, and international moves, such as appointing special chancellor for preventing genocides, aimed at facing failures to prevent genocides.Finally, the study discussed rights and importance of discrimination in terms of keeping diversity.As long as discrimination based on natural and social roots, it contributes to depriving people from getting their rights and freedoms fairly. That is, it is a key to get rid of discrimination to enable people to get their rights ensured in international human rights charters and agreements.The study also talked about forms of discrimination that eliminate rights of equality in the lights of unjustified reasons