Results Internal Self-Determination and Minority Rights

3 Results Internal Self-Determination and Minority Rights 

The restrictions need to be addressed. They craicem the terms minorities and self-determinati(Mi. Only when these terms are clear, an informed and sound conclusion is possible. 

This project simply speaks of minorities. These minorities are understood to be national or ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities. This is borrowed from the title of the UN Minority Declaration. 1 do not attempt to categorize minorities because the categories overlap in different forms. 1 summarize national or ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities under the term classic minorities or simply minority . 

Apart from the difficulty to distinguish between the different types of minorities, there is the problem that international documents, UN representatives, state representatives and scholars use the same terms but endow them with different meanings or vice versa use different terms but mean the same group of persons. While this is unsatisfactory in the cmitext of definition, the lack of delineation only has consequences for one area, albeit an important area of this project. 

The overlap between natimis and minorities is neglected as the rights of nations are not clearly defined. It is thus nations that would claim minority rights than the other way round. Furthermore, nations are not the object of examination, so the overlap between nations and minorities is recognized but not further explored. The second overlap, the one between peoples and minorities, is much more important. Self-determination is often denied minorities because they are not peoples. Chapter 8 shows that this distinction between peoples and minorities is not credible. 

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