Subject: [CivilSoc] COMIR: Consortium of Minority Resources
From: European Roma Rights Center (errc@errc.org)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 05:13:43 EDT
Subject: COMIR: Consortium of Minority Resources
COMIR: Consortium of Minority Resources
COMIR web site http://www.osi.hu/lgi/comir/
Contact COMIR at comirnews@egroups.com
Background
Over the last several years a number of organizations (NGOs, GONGOs, INGOs
as well as IGOs) have been engaged in the development of online resources
to facilitate the exchange of information, to support minority initiatives,
to advocate minority rights in the region, and to evaluate and further
develop universal, regional, bilateral and national standards that may
assist in consolidating democratic governance on the basis of ethnic
diversity and human rights. These organizations have adopted various
strategies to collect and disseminate information. These strategies often
result in overlapping efforts and parallel projects. Thus is seen the
necessity of cooperation and coordination between various organizations
engaged in the development of online resources, networking and
dissemination of information on the issues of minority rights,
multicultural politics and ethnic relations in Central and Eastern Europe,
and in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The Consortium of Minority Resources (COMIR) is an internet-based
cooperative project that aims at promoting the free flow of information and
dialogue in the field of ethnic relations, multicultural politics and
minority rights. COMIR aims to establish a clearinghouse of information and
activities relevant to Europe (OSCE region) to support democratic
governance of multiethnic and multinational societies. To this end, COMIR
develops and promotes virtual libraries, mailing lists, a database of full
text documents, training materials, etc. Major initiatives include a
Virtual Library, coordinated mailing lists, a meta-search engine across
founders' web sites, a Minority Rights Practitioners Resource Pack, a best
practice database, curriculum development and advocacy training.
Founding organizations
Balkan Academic News (BAN)
http://www.egroups.com/group/balkans/fullinfo.html
Center for Documentation and Information on Minorities in Europe-Southeast
Europe (CEDIME-SE)
http://www.greekhelsinki.gr
http://egroups.com/group/balkanhr/fullinfo.html
http://egroups.com/group/greekhr/fullinfo.html
Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPI)
http://www.osi.hu/colpi
European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)
http://www.ecmi.de
European Roma Rights Center
http://errc.org/
The Forum Institute
http://www.forum.inst.sk
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
http://www.ihf-hr.org/
LGI Managing Multiethnic Communities Project
http://www.osi.hu/lgi/ethnic
http://www.egroups.com/group/multiethnic
MINELRES Project
http://www.riga.lv/minelres
Minority Rights Group International
http://www.minorityrights.org/
Contact information for further reference
COMIR web site
http://www.osi.hu/lgi/comir/
to contact COMIR, please, send email to comirnews@egroups.com
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