Protecting Minority Rights: A Practical Guide on Developing Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Legislation
17 April 2024
“By enacting laws that give practical effect to the principle of equal enjoyment of everyone of all rights regardless of status provide an essential foundation for States to realize their ambitions to leave no one behind and to create free and peaceful societies in which all are equal in dignity and rights. This is of particular importance to persons belonging to minorities – it is the very precondition for their ability to exercise the rights to their identity and existence and to the full and effective participation in all spheres of life”, - said Antje Grawe, UN Resident Coordinator in Kyrgyzstan, during the launch event of the Russian-language version of the Protecting Minority Rights: A Practical Guide on Developing Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Legislation.
On April 16, 2024, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the international NGO Equal Rights Trust convened in Bishkek to launch the Russian-language edition of the Guide. The launch event was also attended by the Chairperson of the Coordination Council on Human Rights Edil Baisalov, representatives from the government and civil society, as well as from the international community.
“The Guide provides the main conceptual and substantive elements of anti-discrimination law as understood under international human rights law, as well as concrete country-based practices and practical guidance,” – said Claude Cahn from OHCHR. “It provides support for everyone seeking to act on United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s global call in 2021 for all of the States of the world to adopt comprehensive anti-discrimination laws. In the 15 months since its publication in English, the Guide has been translated into multiple languages and used by law- and policy-makers around the world. In addition to an exhaustive research process reviewing the content and interpretation of all of the relevant UN human rights convention, the Guide was the subject of extensive global consultation with academic and civil society experts.”
Protecting Minority Rights: A Practical Guide on Developing Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Legislation is available here Minority Rights, Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law | OHCHR
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