Item I – Introduction |
Mr. Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi |
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the UN President of the Human Rights Council |
Ms. Gay McGougall |
Independent Expert on Minority Issues |
Ms. Viktória Mohácsi |
Chairperson of the Forum on Minority Issues |
Ms. Navanethem Pillay |
High Commissioner for Human Rights |
Mr. Nicholas Burnett |
Assistant-Director General for Education, UNESCO – video message |
Item II – International and Regional Human Rights Frameworks and Core Principles |
Mr. Vernor Muñoz Villalobos |
Special Rapporteur on the right to education |
Mr. Patrick Thornberry |
Rapporteur, Member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination |
Item III – Essential Requirements for an Effective Education Strategy |
Invited experts |
Ms. Diane Abbott |
Member of the Parliament - United Kingdom of Great Britain |
Mr. Renato Ferreira |
Coordinator, Program on Policies of Color in Brazilian Education , Center for Public Policies at the University of Rio de Janeiro – Brazil |
Mr. Yusuf Sayed |
Senior Researcher, University of Sussex - UK Human Sciences Research Council - South Africa |
Mr. Mark Lattimer |
Director, Minority Rights Group – UK |
Ms. Marselha Gonçalves-Margerin |
Advocacy Director, Centre for Human Rights, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial – USA |
Mr. Daniel Losen |
Senior Education Law and Policy Associate, Civil Rights Project, University of California, Los Angeles (ACLU) – USA |
Mr. Kishore Singh |
Senior Programme Specialist for the right to education, UNESCO |
Participants |
Mr. Lothar Krappmann |
Member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child |
Mr. Brooks Robinson |
Black Economics Organization, USA |
Ms. Yasuko Morooka |
Japanese Network towards Human Rights Legislation for Non-nationals and Ethnic Minorities |
Ms. Jee-Won BAE |
Korean International Network |
Mr. Manpreet Singh |
OHCHR Minority Fellow |
Mr. Pavlos Voskopoulos |
Rainbow-Macedonian Minority in Greece |
Ms. Cecile Molinier |
UNDP Geneva Director |
Mr. Molu Koropu Tepo |
Garba Tulla Development Organization, Kenya (affiliated with Minority Rights Group) |
Ms. Milena Klajner |
Croatia, Head of Government Office for National Minorities |
H. E. Fuad Nimani |
Minister of Human and Minority Rights Protection of Montenegro |
Mr Jian Badrakhan |
Yasa e. v. Kurdish Centre for Legal Studies and Consultancy-Germany |
Permanent Mission |
Austria |
Ms. Vismal Thorat |
NCDHR-India (affiliated with Minority Rights Group) |
Mr. Melek Kirmaci |
Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe |
Ms. Diane Ala’i |
Baha’l International Community |
Mr. Stefano Keller |
Universal Esperanto Association |
H. E. Istvan Lakatos |
Human Rights Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hungary |
Ms. Dubravka Simonovic |
Member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women |
Ms. Hasmik Simonyan |
Third Secretary, Human Rights Desk, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Armenia |
Permanent Mission |
Canada |
Permanent Mission |
Slovenia |
Permanent Mission |
Greece |
Permanent Mission |
Slovakia |
Mr. Wilton Littlechild |
International Organization for Indigenous Resource Development, Canada |
Ms. Seher Neoz |
National Centre for Human Rights of the Kurd |
Permanent Mission |
Sweden |
Permanent Mission |
Syria |
Item IV – Equal Access to Quality Education for Minorities |
Invited experts |
Mr. John Payton |
President and Director-Counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People – Legal Defense Fund (NAACP - LDF) – USA |
Ms. Eliane Cavalleiro |
Coordinator, Unit on Diversity and Educational Inclusion of the Secretariat of Continuing Education, Literacy and Diversity at the Ministry of Education - Brazil |
Mr. Nadir Redzepi |
Board Member, Roma Education Fund – Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
Ms. Anastasia Crickley |
Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, OSCE |
Mr. Biram Dah Abeid |
Lawyer and researcher, Save Slave Organisation - Mauritania |
Ms. Sawsan Zaher |
Attorney, Adalah – the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – Israel |
Mr. Peter Hyll-Larsen |
Coordinator, Right to Education Project, Action Aid International – UK |
Mr. Charles Masabo |
Member of the Senate and Member of the Executive Committee of the organisation “Unissons-nous pour la promotion des Batwa – UNIPROBA” – Burundi |
Ms. Helen Pinnock |
Education Advisor, Save the Children – UK |
Ms. Doris Angst |
Director, Federal Commission Against Racism (FCR) – Switzerland |
Participants |
Ms. Barbara Wilson |
Member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
Mr. Prasad Kariyawasam |
Member of the Committee on Migrant Workers |
Item V – The Learning Environment and School Governance |
Invited experts |
Mr. Carlos de la Torre |
Chair, Political Studies and Director of the Ph.D. Programme in Social Sciences, Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences FLACSO - Ecuador |
Ms. Maisie Chin |
Director, Community Asset Development Redefining Education (CADRE) - USA |
Ms. Meghna Guhathakurta |
Executive Director, Research Initiatives – Bangladesh |
Mr. Dennis Parker |
Director, Racial Justice Programme, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - USA |
Ms. Bamo Ayi |
Professor, Central University of Nationalities, Beijing - China |
Ms. Anna Frangoudaki |
University of Athens, Center of Intercultural Research and Pedagogic Intervention – Greece |
Ms. Thalia Dragonas |
Member of the Parliament, Coordinator of the Project on Muslim Minority in Thrace - Greece |
Participants |
Mr. Gidado Tahir |
Head of the Department of Education, Abuja University – Nigeria |
Mr. Sadeq Al Jubran |
OHCHR Minority Fellow |
Permanent Mission |
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
Mr. Tzemil Kapza |
Western Thrace Minority-University Graduates Association-Greece |
Ms. Eunice Mariama |
Reto Women Association of Kenya (affiliated with Minority Rights Group) |
Mr. Aref Gabeau |
Kurdish Centre for Legal Studies and Consultation |
Ms. Aleksandra Bojadzieva |
Sunse (affiliated with Minority Rights Group) |
Mr. Roy Amarendra |
Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities |
Permanent Mission |
Turkey |
Permanent Mission |
Mauritania |
Mr. Mathiur Rahaman |
Save the Children, Bangladesh |
Mr. Pacifique Mukumba-Isumbisho |
Réseau des Associations Autochtones Pygmées, DRC |
Mr. Peter Hantz |
Hungarian National Council of Transylvania |
Ms. Kathryn Ramsay |
Minority Rights Group International |
Mr. Benon Mugaruna |
African Indigenous and Minorities Organization, Rwanda (affiliated with Minority Rights Group) |
Permanent Mission |
Russian Federation |
Permanent Mission |
Greece |
Mr. Baba Eliassi |
Committee for Support of Kurdish Prisoners in Iraq |
Mr. Caracota |
Council of Macedon-Armans, Albania |
Ms. Glennie King |
All for Reparations and Emancipation |
Mr. Tangi Louarn |
European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages |
Mr. Markku Jokinen |
World Federation of the Deaf |
H.E. Istvan Lakatos |
Human Rights Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hungary |
Item VI – The Relationship between De-Segregation Strategies, Cultural Autonomy and Integration in the Quest for Social Cohesion |
Invited experts |
Ms. Anurima Bhargava |
National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People – Legal Defense Fund (NAACP - LDF) |
Mr. Claude Cahn |
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions COHRE – Switzerland |
Mr. Tahir Alam |
Education Policy and Community Engagement Advisor for the Muslim Council of Britain – UK |
Mr. Charles Russo |
Joseph Panzer Chair in Education, School of Education and Allied Professions, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Law, University of Dayton – USA |
Ms. Libia Grueso Castelblanco |
Centre of Social Investigations, Universidad de los Andes – Colombia |
Mr. Fernand de Varennes |
Associate Professor, Murdoch University, Australia - Canada |
Ms. Aleksandra Vujic |
Voivodina Centre for Human Rights – Serbia |
Mr. Mathura Tripura Bikash |
Zabarang Kalyan Samity – Bangladesh |
Mr. Aleksejs Dimitrovs |
Legal Advisor on Fundamental Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, European Parliament - Latvia |
Participants |
Mr. Khalid Hussain |
Al –Falah Bangladesh, OHCHR Minority Fellowship Programme |
Ms. Mucha-Shim Quiling Arquiza |
Secretary-General, Qalam, Asian Muslim Action Muslim Network in the Philippines (AMANPHIL) – Philippines |
Mr. Priti Sarman |
Association of World Citizen, Bangladesh |
Mr. Edward Arocicia Doss |
On Indian Minorities, India |
Permanent Mission |
Brazil |
Mr. Tom Haden |
Queens University Belfast |
Permanent Mission |
Islamic Republic of Iran |
Permanent Mission |
Armenia |
Mr. Alfred Fernandez |
International Organization for Right to Education and Freedom of Education (OIDEL) |
Mrs. Le Guyader Nolwenn |
Minister of Education, France |
Permanent Mission |
Mexico |
Ms. Ana Elzy Ofreneo |
Commission on Human Rights Philippines |
Mr. Aleksandra Kuzmins |
Human Rights Committee (NGO) |
Ms. Annie Namala |
NCDHR India (affiliated with Minority Rights Group) |
H. E. Istvan Lakatos |
Human Rights Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hungary |
Mr. Wilton Littlechild |
International Organization for Indigenous Resource Development, Canada |
Mr. Brooks Robinson |
Black Economics Organization, USA - [Statement | Background paper] |
Ms. Yasuko Morooka |
Japanese Network towards Human Rights Legislation for Non-nationals and Ethnic Minorities |
Permanent Mission |
Austria |
Ms. Helen Pinnock |
Save the Children, UK |
Mr. Pavlos Voskopoulos |
Rainbow-Macedonian Minority in Greece |
Ms. Nurcan Kaya |
Minority Rights Group International |
Permanent Mission |
Greece |
Mr. Mantsu |
Council of Macedon Armans, Albania |
Ms. Silis Muhammad |
All for Reparations and Emancipation |
Mr. Francesco Reale |
Universal Esperanto Association |
Ms. Mona Zulficar |
Member of the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council |
Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
Armenia |
Item VII – The Content and Delivery of the Curriculum |
Invited experts |
Mr. Bernard Gifford |
Professor and Distinguished Resident Fellow, Southern Education Foundation – USA |
Ms. Mucha Shim Quiling Arquiza |
Secretary-General, Qalam, Asian Muslim Action Muslim Network in the Philippines (AMANPHIL) – Philippines |
Mr. Marius Taba |
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Roma Education Fund - Hungary |
Mr. Lal Perera |
Director-General, National Institute of Education – Sri Lanka |
Mr. Leonardo Reales |
Coordinator International Human Right Committee, Afro-Colombian National Movement CIMARRON – Colombia / USA |
Ms. Pamela MacKenzie |
Education consultant, International Network for Development, India and Bangladesh – UK |
Participants |
Permanent Mission |
Latvia |
Mr. Mathura Bikash Tripura |
Zabarang Kalyan Samity, Bangladesh |
Mr. Sameer Hassan |
OHCHR Minority Fellow |
Mr. Nangiro Simon A.L. |
Karamoja Agro Pastoralist Development Programme, Uganda |
Mr. Sujan Barua |
World Barua Organization, Switzerland |
Ms. F. Zamani |
Association for Defence of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners in Iran |
Ms. Nada Jakir |
Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Croatia |
Permanent Mission |
The Republic of Azerbaijan |
Permanent Mission |
Venezuela |
Permanent Mission |
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
Ms. Amina Osman |
Education Specialist, UNICEF |
Mr. Suman Barua |
SRG Welfare Society Bangladesh |
Ms. Annie Namala |
Centre for Progamming Inclusion and Equity, India |
Mr. Brooks Robinson |
Black Economics Organization, USA |
Ms. Genevieve Jourdan |
Association of World Citizens |
Mr. Wilton Littlechild |
International Organization for Indigenous Resource Development, Canada |
Mr. Samara |
Council of Macedon Armans, Albania |
Mr. Pavlos Voskopoulos |
Rainbow-Macedonian Minority in Greece |
Permanent Mission |
Greece |
Mr. Mats Wennerholm |
Swedish National Agency for Education |
Mr. Tangi Louarn |
European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages |
Permanent Mission |
Slovakia |
Mr. Taba Marius |
Roma Education Fund, Hungary |
Mr. Pervin Chairoula |
Western Thrace Minority-University Graduates Association-Greece |
Item VIII – Concluding Remarks |
Ms. Gay McGougall |
Independent Expert on Minority Issues |
Ms. Anna Frangoudaki |
University of Athens, Center of Intercultural Research and Pedagogic Intervention – Greece |
Ms. Sawsan Zaher |
Attorney, Adalah – the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – Israel |
Mr. Kishore Singh |
Senior Programme Specialist for the right to education, UNESCO |
Mr. Yusuf Sayed |
Senior Researcher, University of Sussex - UK Human Sciences Research Council - South Africa |
Ms. Bamo Ayi |
Professor, Central University of Nationalities, Beijing - China |
Mr. Biram Dah Abeid |
Lawyer and researcher, Save Slave Organisation - Mauritania |
Mr. Leonardo Reales |
Coordinator International Human Right Committee, Afro-Colombian National Movement CIMARRON – Colombia / USA |
Mr. Tahir Alam |
Education Policy and Community Engagement Advisor for the Muslim Council of Britain – UK |
Ms. Erica Daes |
Professor, Expert on Minority Issues |
Mr. Patrick Thornberry |
Rapporteur Member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination |
Mr. Vernor Muñoz Villalobos |
Special Rapporteur on the right to education |
Ms. Viktória Mohácsi |
Chairperson of the Forum on Minority Issues |
Ms. Gay McGougall |
Independent Expert on Minority Issues |