Nagy Noémi
Ádám and Others v. Romania
Ádám and Others (2020) is the most recent piece of the ECtHR’s jurisprudence related to minority educationwith regard to Hungarians. The case concerns the alleged discrimination in final high school...Author: Nagy Noémi
Ballantyne, Davidson and McIntyre v. Canada
The subject-matter of the Ballantyne case, decided by the →Human Rights Committee in 1993, is Quebec’s language policy. Three English-speaking business-owners complained that in accordance with the Charter on the...Author: Nagy Noémi
Belgian linguistic case
One of the best-known cases from the European Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence regarding minority language rights is the so-called Belgian linguistic case, which still serves as a reference point...Author: Nagy Noémi
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Committee
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is an international treaty adopted in 1979 within the framework of the →United Nations, which aims to...Author: Nagy Noémi
Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Committee
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is an international treaty adopted in 1989 within the framework of the →United Nations, which aims to protect the rights of...Author: Nagy Noémi
Decision 35/1992. (VI. 10.) AB – representation of minorities
The Constitutional Court’s very first decision regarding minorities was delivered on 2 June 1992. Although the submission specifically requested the determination of unconstitutionality by omission with regard to para. 3...Author: Nagy Noémi
Decision 45/2005. (XII. 14.) AB – belonging to a minority
On 12 December 2005, the Constitutional Court made a substantial statement on the declaration of minority affiliation for the first time, shortly after the adoption of Act No. CXIV of...Author: Nagy Noémi
European Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence regarding minority language rights
Within the abundant minority-relevant case-law under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), a relatively small number of cases are related to the use of language. Language use is protected...Author: Nagy Noémi
Gorzelik and Others v. Poland
Gorzelik (2004) is one of the few cases where the ECtHR explicitly addressed the issue of conceptualization of minorities. The applicants had been refused permission to register their association “Union...Author: Nagy Noémi
Importance of recognizing language rights
Most of the international documents guaranteeing language rights that are in force today set out from the premise that language (mother tongue, own language, regional/minority language, etc.) as such, or...Author: Nagy Noémi
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is an international treaty adopted by the →United Nations in 1965, which aims to achieve equal treatment...Author: Nagy Noémi
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Human Rights Committee
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is an international treaty adopted by the →United Nations in 1966, which sets out a broad range of first-generation human rights...Author: Nagy Noémi
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its Committee
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) is an international treaty adopted by the →United Nations in 1966, which sets out a broad range of second-generation human...Author: Nagy Noémi
Isop v. Austria
The first decision dealing with minoritylanguage rightsbased on the ECHR was delivered by the European Commission of Human Rightsin 1962. Mr Isop, an Austrian citizen of Slovene origin filed a...Author: Nagy Noémi
Július Pereszlényi – Servis TV-Video v. Slovakia
Pereszlényi (2021) is very instructive when it comes to the restrictive attitude of the ECtHRin relation to minority language rights, in this case, those of the Hungarian minority. Pursuant to...Author: Nagy Noémi
Kitok v. Sweden
In the 1988 Kitok v. Sweden case, the →Human Rights Committee addressed the issue of →belonging to a minority. In a landmark decision, also for the rights of →indigenous peoples,...Author: Nagy Noémi
Lovelace v. Canada
The 1981 Lovelace v. Canada case is an early, iconic example of the →Human Rights Committee’s jurisprudence on →belonging to a minority. To sum up the Committee’s respective views, whether...Author: Nagy Noémi
Mavlonov and Sa’di v. Uzbekistan
The 2009 Mavlonov and Sa’di v. Uzbekistan case concerned the right of minorities to enjoy their own culture, namely the refusal to register Oina, a bi-weekly Tajik-language newspaper. Oina was...Author: Nagy Noémi
Minority registration
The institution of registration was introduced by Act No. CXIV of 2005 on the election of minority self-government representatives and the amendment of certain laws concerning national and ethnic minorities....Author: Nagy Noémi
Minority rights before the Constitutional Court of Hungary
During more than three decades of its operation, the Constitutional Court of Hungary discussed approximately three dozen cases directly affecting minorities in Hungary. The Court dealt with the concept of...Author: Nagy Noémi
Personal names of minorities before the ECtHR
The use of personal names is a specific border area of minority language use, which, as part of personal identity, is basically rooted in the private sphere (as such it...Author: Nagy Noémi
Proposal for a Draft Global Convention on the Rights of Minorities
On 6 March 2023, UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Fernand de Varennes published a Proposal for a Draft Global Convention on the Rights of Minorities, attached to his annual...Author: Nagy Noémi
Recognition as a minority
Enlisted in the annex of the 2011 Nationalities Act are those 13 ethnic groups that qualify as nationalities in Hungary (the same ones as under the previous legislation). However, the...Author: Nagy Noémi
Sanila-Aikio v. Finland, Käkkäläjärvi et al. v. Finland
In November 2018, the →Human Rights Committee adopted its views in two cases against Finland. At issue was the right of the Sami people to determine the membership of their...Author: Nagy Noémi