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COMIR Projects
- Coordination of information resources
- Presentation of standards and legislation, their analysis and implementation
- News reporting and dissemination of information
- Capacity building
- Promotion of state-NGO-IGO dialogue
3. News reporting and dissemination of information
Project:
Electronic Map of Ethnopolitical Conflict in Europe
Lead organization:
ECMI, Germany
The project is intended to cover all European states and
conflict regions, including those in the Caucasus. Extensive, authoritative
information can be found here relating to background, statistics, current
situation and international response, current bibliography and relevant internet
links. Under the rubric current situation and international response is included
a table detailing an overview of the current situation, actions of the United
Nations, of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, of the
Council of Europe, of the European Union, and documents of other international
actors.
This flagship project has been designed to meet the information needs of those
searching for current, credible information on conflict regions of Europe; and
is an international attempt at conflict management. While there is indeed a
multitude of web sites on the internet that provide bits and pieces of
information on specific countries or conflict regions, the quality of this
information can at best be characterized as uneven. In addition, to date there
is no central clearing-house web site on the internet that provides all of the
information referred to above in a timely, consistent and reliable way.
Thus is seen the urgent necessity for such a project. This project should be
undertaken in cooperation with the European Academy COMIR project "Minority
Rights Information System (MIRIS)," in order to avoid unnecessary
duplication of efforts. This could be accomplished by establishing a link from
the country or conflict region pages of the Electronic Map of Ethnopolitical
Conflict in Europe to the relevant legislative information contained in the
MIRIS legislative database referred to above.
The goal of this project is to provide a unique, timely information source on
Ethnopolitical Conflict in Europe which will be highly useful for practitioners
and the general public. The material collected will be available on the ECMI
website. In addition, publication of a substantial book would be useful to
practitioners and the general public alike, as well as availability in CD-ROM
format.
Project:
Minority Electronic Resources Project, http://www.riga.lv/minelres/
Lead organization:
MINELRES, Latvia
The main aim of the MINELRES (MINority ELectronic RESources) project is to assist human rights and minority NGOs in Central Eastern European region in gaining knowledge of basic mechanisms and experiences of minority rights promotion; establishing contacts and networks, finding new partners, exchanging information, fundraising; and obtaining technical skills to get access to relevant information in the field with a specific emphasis on information technologies with the means of a specialised website and mailing list functioning on daily basis.
Project:
Balkan Human Rights Web Pages, http://www.greekhelsinki.gr
Lead organization:
CEDIME-SE, Greece
COMIR member CEDIME-SE has created the first comprehensive source of information on human and minority rights in Southeast Europe. All relevant material is becoming available on or through (i.e. with links to other sites) the Balkan Human Rights Web Pages. This includes presentations of all ethnonational, ethnolinguistic, and religious minorities, commissioned by CEDIME-SE (in cooperation with COMIR member Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center -EDRC, in Cluj, for Romania’s minorities) and reviewed by experts, as well as credible releases, statements, reports and other documents on human and minority rights produced by NGO, IGO and government sources. This material is also distributed through an associated balkanhr listserve with 1,500 subscribers and an average of six messages per day. The site has benefited from a rapidly increasing traffic with more than 9,000 hits per average day in April 2001 - twice as many as in April 2000 and three times as many as in April 1999.