A restriction to one sex or one ethnic group.

The situation of the Khasi ethnic group residing within the northern State of Meghalaya in India was brought to the attention of the Working Group.

Reaffirming that terrorism cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization or ethnic group,

Reaffirming that terrorism cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization or ethnic group,

DRC added that the statement equated a group of an ethnic origin other than Danish with crime.

Reaffirming also that terrorism cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization or ethnic group,

Mainly, however, girls are disadvantaged, both as a group and as a sub group of the disadvantaged, such as the rural poor, ethnic minorities and indigenous populations.

Membership in any national minority or ethnic group may not be used to the detriment of any individual and

Other political and ethnic leaders have also been arrested or detained, causing one ceasefire group to boycott the Convention.

Despite all the problems, women in almost every ethnic group in the Niger do carry out income generating activities.

Since independence, national politics in Malaysia has reinforced group identity, especially among ethnic Malays, an exclusively Muslim community. Identity politics allowed ethnic Malays to assert their claims to control over land, language, and religion.

Knowledge centres work together with ethnic minorities and women's organisations to disseminate information and organise meetings with people from the target group.

The campaign targets the 16 to 39 years age group and involves television, magazine, cinema, indigenous and ethnic press and convenience advertising.

Recalling in this context that the killing of members of an ethnic group with the intention of destroying such a group, in whole or in part, constitutes a crime punishable under international law,

The practice, although it may take different forms in different regions, entails the remarrying of a widow within the husband's family or ethnic group.

Eating ethnic was unheard of unless you were ethnic.

The Committee is of the view that the recognition of Travellers as an ethnic group has important implications under the Convention (arts. 1 and 5).

Statistics broken down by ethnic group on political participation and the standard of living of the population might be included in the next periodic report.

Mutual understanding among States is possible only when the representatives of one ethnic group know about and respect the culture, traditions and customs of others.

Section VII of the present report contains the decisions and recommendations adopted at the eleventh session of the Working Group, in which the attention of the United Nations is drawn in particular to the situations of the Roma in Kosovo (Serbia and Montenegro), ethnic groups in Darfur, the Sudan, and the Anywa ethnic group in the Gambella region of Ethiopia.

Compared to their ethnically Dutch peer group, the levels of both men and women from non Western ethnic minority backgrounds attending higher education are too low.

By increasing the political attractiveness of the state, especially in our ethnically fragmented societies in Africa, aid tends to accentuate ethnic tensions as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie.

Based on the ethnic group, there has been a reduction of 55 per cent in the non indigenous population and 36 per cent in the indigenous population.

Mr. Fahey (Ireland) said that, while the Government acknowledged that Travellers had a distinct cultural identity, it did not consider them to be a separate ethnic group.

We are currently defining modalities for participation in the work of the working group on decentralization a working group we consider to be the most important indicator of the multi ethnic character of the Provisional Institutions of Self Government.

Progress in Kosovo will continue even without the meaningful participation of the Kosovo Serbs, but progress in establishing a fully multi ethnic Kosovo and integrating all communities will remain limited as long as one ethnic group is pressured to stay outside the political, economic and social processes.

The minority was not constitutionally recognized as an ethnic group some members had identity cards with the names of other groups, which was deemed to constitute forced assimilation.

In this regard, States should ensure that the courts do not apply harsher punishments solely because of an accused person's membership of a specific racial or ethnic group.

Lastly, it was obvious that an ethnic group or nation could exercise its right to self determination only once, and Armenia had done so within its own borders.

While the IDP population cuts across all ethnic groups, the majority of them are Pashtuns, including those displaced from the north west by persecution, and Kuchis, a nomadic group.

The Working Group believes that all States should implement measures to promote understanding, tolerance, gender equality and friendship among all nations and racial, national, ethnic, religious and linguistic groups.

All such findings differ according to ethnic group, gender and age (recent research has shown, for instance, that nearly 90 of women of Turkish origin in Amsterdam are overweight).

In areas where national minorities predominated, there were ethnic schools, along with ethnic and cultural centres offering language classes and courses on ethnic traditions and ceremonies.

Welcoming the open position of the State party in this respect, the Committee encourages the State party to work more concretely towards recognizing the Traveller community as an ethnic group.

The Kayin people were the second largest ethnic group in Myanmar, and, apart from living in the state of Kayin were also spread across the country's other states and territories.

Also, as part of the 2003 educational reform, the National Education Act now included provisions for the education of indigenous communities, specifically adapted to the needs of each ethnic group.

Recalling its general recommendation VIII on the principle of self identification, the Committee expresses concern at the State party's position with regard to the recognition of Travellers as an ethnic group.

On this subject, a group of experts elaborated the Hague Recommendations regarding the Education Rights of National Minorities (October 1996), prepared under the auspices of the Foundation on Inter Ethnic Relations.

Europe s largest and most disadvantaged ethnic minority, with a population equal to that of Greece, millions of Roma are trapped in extreme poverty and ignorance, compounded by widespread discrimination. Indeed, the 2009 European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey found that Roma experience more severe discrimination than any other ethnic minority group in Europe.

Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1995 31 of 25 July 1995 on the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities establishing the Working Group on Minorities,

In response to the Committee's recommendations, the government took measures aimed at eliminating obstacles to the participation of ethnic minority women in the labour market and at reaching this group more effectively.

This does not exclude that persons belonging to an ethnic or national group may in some contexts legitimately make claims based on minority rights and, in another context, when acting as a group, can make claims based on the right of a people to self determination.

It was reported that the above mentioned 13 persons are being kept in detention in Wellikadai Prison in Colombo. All these persons were arrested on ethnic grounds, i.e. for the simple fact of being ethnic Tamils, and under suspicion of involvement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the main armed opposition group.

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Girls from ethnic minority backgrounds