Human Rights Council’s Forum on Minority Issues
15 and 16 December 2008, Geneva, Palais des Nations

Mr. Markku Jokinen, president of the WFD and Ms. Jaana Keski-Levijoki, president of the Finnish Association of the Deaf were present at the Forum on Minority Issues hosted by the Human Rights Council. The forum provides a platform for promoting dialogue and cooperation on issues pertaining to national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities. The forum identifies and analyzes best practised and challenges for the further implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities . For further information, please visit OHCHR’s website for minorities .