MINCOOP Data Series: UN Treaty Body Approaches to Minorities – Dataset 3: Individual Communications

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 individual communications adopted by the UN human rights treaty bodies. The database covers 169 documents adopted under the individual communications procedures of seven UN human rights treaty bodies. For each communication, the dataset provides key metadata, including the treaty body, title of the communication, year of adoption, communication number, document identifier, document type, source link, subject matter, substantive issues, substantive treaty articles, relevant paragraphs, and keywords. The dataset identifies paragraphs and keywords that may be relevant to the conceptualization and operationalization of minorities in the jurisprudence of the UN human rights treaty bodies. Keywords were identified through 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 the interpretation and application of minority rights in the individual communications procedure of the UN human rights treaty bodies.