Minority Politics in Practice: Protection and Empowerment in the Danish-German Border Region
Publisher: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe Volume: 24 pages, pdf Description: This article examines how the members of national minorities in the Danish-German border region are protected and empowered. This is done through an analysis of the institutions and mechanism with which the state and land governments preserve the minority culture in the region today. The article uses as point of reference the 2005 OHCHR Plan of Action: Protection and Empowerment, which states that human rights are best protected when people are empowered to assert and claim their rights.