MINCOOP Data Series: UN Treaty Body Approaches to Minorities – Dataset 2: General Comments and General Recommendations

This dataset was produced within the MINCOOP project, funded by the European Commission (Grant No. 101180608). The project investigates the conceptualization and operationalization of minorities in international human rights law, with a particular focus on the practice of the United Nations human rights treaty bodies. The dataset forms part of the MINCOOP Data Series: UN Treaty Body Approaches to Minorities and contains metadata and qualitative coding results derived from general comments and general recommendations of the UN human rights treaty bodies. The database covers 125 documents. For each document, the dataset provides key metadata, including the treaty body; the number, title and year of adoption of the document, document identifier, and source link. The dataset also identifies paragraphs and keywords that may be relevant to the conceptualization and operationalization of minorities in treaty body practice. Keywords were identified through primary qualitative analysis and include terms referring to minority groups, group membership, and related legal concepts. The dataset is intended to support qualitative legal research as well as quantitative and computational analyses of minority-related terminology in the monitoring practice of UN human rights treaty bodies.