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In this section you can consult relevant international rulings that include dispositions or deal directly with language issues and the rights of their speakers produced by UNO, UNESCO, International Labor Organization (ILO), Organiztion for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Council of Europe (CoE) and European Union (EU). And also other international documents that approach linguistic rights, minorities and language issues.

OSCE

ORGANISATION ON SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION IN EUROPE (OSCE)

0.4.1. Basic documents

0.4.1.1. Final recommendations of the Helsinki consultations, 8 June 1973
0.4.1.2. Final Act of Helsinki, 1st of August 1975
0.4.1.3. Charter of Paris for a new Europe, 21 November 1990

0.4.2. Periodical Meetings Documents

0.4.2.1. Concluding document of the Meeting in Madrid, 9 September 1980
0.4.2.2. Vienna Final Act relating to the follow-up of the Conference, 19 of January 1989
0.4.2.3. Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Symposium on the Cultural Heritage, Cracow, 28 May- 7June 1991
0.4.2.4. Document of Helsinki 1992
0.4.2.5. Declaration of Budapest, 1994

0.4.3. Conference of the Human Dimension

0.4.3.1. Document of the second meeting in Copenhaguen’s Conference on Human Dimension, 29 June 1990
0.4.3.2. Document of the Moscow meeting of the Conference of the Human Dimension, 4 October 1991

0.4.4. Specific Meetings

0.4.4.1. Report of the Geneva CSCE Meeting of Experts on National Minorities, 19 June 1991
0.4.4.2. Report of the CSCE Meeting of Experts on democratic institutions. Oslo, 15 november 1991

0.4.5. Documents of the Parliamentary Assembly

0.4.5.1. Declaration of the Parliamentary Assembly of the CSCE in Helsinki, 9 July 1993

0.4.6. High Commissioner on Nationa Minorities

0.4.6.1. The Hague Recommendations Regarding the Education Rights of National Minorities & Explanatory Note, of 1996
0.4.6.2. The Oslo Recommendations Regarding the Linguistic Rights of National Minorities & Explanatory Not, of February 1998
0.4.6.3. The Lund Recommendations on the Effective Participation of National Minorities in Public Life & Explanatory Note, of September 1999

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