The protection of national minorities by their kin-state (Science and technique of democracy No. 32) (2003)

The passionate and at times virulent discussions ensuing from the adoption by Hungary, in June 2001, of the Act on Hungarians living in Neighbouring Countries dramatically revealed that too little attention had been paid until then by the international community to the phenomenon of the concern of certain states for their kin-minorities. The Venice Commission was called upon to fill this gap. This volume contains the report on the preferential treatment of national minorities by their kin-states, the proceedings of a colloquy on the same subject organised by the Commission in June 2002 as a follow-up to the report, as well as a collection of the existing national legislation on kin-minorities.

Also published
Minorities in international law, by Gaetano Pentassuglia (2002)
http://coe.preprods.fr/GB/CAT/LIV/HTM/l1970.htm