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 ==== Council of Europe ====
 A European wide human rights organisation with 47 European states as a [[https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/47-members-states|member]]. The Council of Europe drafts conventions describing measures that members can take to protect human rights, and urges its members to ratify these conventions. It also determines whether its members comply with these conventions by sending delegates to members states every few years.
 ==== European Charter for Regional and Minority languages ====
-Convenant drafted by the [[https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/home|Council of Europe]] offering protection for regional or minority languages. The Charter essentially is a list measures that Council members states can take to protect regional and minority languages within their territory, organised in Part II and Part III.
+Convenant drafted by the [[general_information:glossary_of_terms#Council of Europe|Council of Europe]] in 1992 which offers protection for regional or minority languages. The Charter essentially is a list measures that Council members states can take to protect regional and minority languages within their territory, organised in Part II and Part III.
   * View the text of the Charter [[http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/minlang/textcharter/default_en.asp|here]].
   * For an overview of which language is protected by which Charter measurements, look [[http://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/search-on-treaties/-/conventions/treaty/148/declarations|here]].
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 Ethnologue is a [[https://www.ethnologue.com/|database]] with over 7000 languages, with information on: language identifcation, user population, location, language status (EGIDS level), classification, dialects, typology, language use, language development, and language resources. Since October 2019, Ethnologue has installed a strict paywall((Matacic, C. //World’s largest linguistics database is getting too expensive for some researchers.// (2020, February 10). Science. Retrieved February 25, 2020, from [[https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/world-s-largest-linguistics-database-getting-too-expensive-some-researchers]].)).
+==== Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities ====
+A treaty drafted by the [[general_information:glossary_of_terms#Council of Europe|Council of Europe]] in 1995 which offers protection for national minorities. The Framework Convention promotes equality  of  persons  belonging  to  national minorities  concerning   economic,  social,  political  and  cultural  life. It also sets conditions for national minorities to express, preserve and develop their culture and identity.
+  * View the text of the Framework Convenion [[https://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=09000016800c10cf|here]].
+  * For an overview which state members have signed and/or ratified the Framework Convetnion, look [[https://www.coe.int/en/web/minorities/etats-partie|here]]
 ==== Glottolog ====