Minority communities' freedom of movement is limited, partly by perceived threats to their security.

Visible minorities

The leadership has since appointed a new middle management, with due sensitivity to ethnic balance.

The Government has started to engage in community dialogue initiatives to rebuild trust and confidence between communities.

Participation by minority communities (a priority) increased slightly 26 members of minority communities were recruited over the quarter (18 Serb, 2 Bosniac, 2 Croat, 2 Ashkali, 2 Turk).

Community dialogue initiatives to rebuild trust and confidence between communities need to be taken by Kosovo's leaders.

Crime clearance rates are broadly comparable for crimes committed by or against members of all communities (a priority).

7.3 The Committee recalls that Mr. Andreasen made offensive statements about foreigners at the party conference.

Only one minority community member is licensed to certify vehicular roadworthiness, making it very difficult for minorities to renew car registrations.

The majority community needs to create a climate in which members of minority communities, and in particular the Kosovo Serbs, feel confident they can return and remain in Kosovo.

A multi ethnic (18 per cent minorities overall 16 per cent Kosovo Serbs) and increasingly professional customs service is in place (a priority).

There are no precise percentage data available on other races or ethnic groupings, such as the indigenous Mískita, Sumu (Mayangna), Rama and Garífona and their subsequent mixture with African and mestizo peoples.

Efforts have been made to increase minority employment in the revenue raising institutions and make them more accessible to minority communities.

The Committee also finds that the State party is in breach of its obligation to guarantee the right of everyone to equality before the law in the enjoyment of the right to housing, contrary to article 5, paragraph (e) (iii), of the Convention.

Of the 3,024 active KPC members, 157 are from minority communities (33 Ashkali, 17 Bosniac, 8 Egyptian, 1 Goran, 9 Croat, 14 Muslim, 2 Roma, 43 Serb and 30 Turk).

More needs to be done, including by members of their own communities, to support minority members who join KPC, especially Serbs.

Committee's request for clarification from the State party

After decolonization, ethnic, linguistic, racial, caste based and religious differences surfaced as the post colonial States sought to establish their authority and writ over diverse population groups.

Minority employment at the municipal level was adequate in 14 of the 27 mixed municipalities, albeit usually limited to offices dealing with minorities' issues, and with negligible representation at decision making levels.

No person may be detained solely on the basis of race, colour, national origin, ethnicity or religion.

Ethnicity, religion, culture, language and race must not be allowed to become a source of division.

They came from different ethnic groups the Lukumí, Carabalí, Congo, Ganga, Mandingo, Mina, Bibi and Yoruba.

Minorities' fears are fed by isolated incidents, not always condemned or addressed by local political leadership, in which transport services for minorities are stoned hate graffiti are painted on municipal buildings unoccupied minority houses are looted and minority language rights are not respected.

Sixty years after the end of the Second World War, the world has continued to witness acts of hatred and discrimination based on religious, political, racial, ethnic, social or cultural differences.

The Serb population is at stake, whose human rights and basic security have already been seriously threatened, especially after the outbreak of ethnically motivated violence in March 2004.

Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities

The Assembly Committee on the Rights and Interests of Communities needs to become an effective mechanism for representing the needs of all communities throughout the legislative process (a priority).

Another 300 community policing officers are deploying to areas populated by vulnerable minority communities across Kosovo to improve their security.

A Ministry of Returns and Communities has been established (a priority) to assume responsibility for returns within all communities (a priority).

The approved constitution prepared the ground for the election of an ethnically balanced Government, after more than a decade of armed conflict in the country.

Companies operated by minority communities need support.

Violent incidents between ethnic groups, sometimes involving armed elements, have also occurred in the western part of the zone, mainly between the Guéré, on one side, and Dozos and persons of Burkinabé descent, on the other.

Attention should also be drawn to the activities of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, in defence of those that had suffered from the aftermath of racism.

There were also incidents of biased and inflammatory reporting following the ethnic clashes in and around Duékoué.

Genocide, ethnic cleansing and similar grave violations must be prevented.

(b) Afro descendants

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He referred to the existing problem faced in collecting statistical data on people of African descent, in particular in Europe, and the ongoing political dialogue on the issue of collecting disaggregated ethnic data.

The most frequent grounds of discrimination cited were race, colour, ethnic or national origin, as well as age and social condition.

Their reluctance to leave their communities, or to interact with members of the majority community (and vice versa), is widening an already deep ethnic divide.

Recalling its resolution 47 135 of 18 December 1992, as well as its subsequent resolutions on the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities,

It will also examine the factors that increase women's vulnerability to violence, such as race, ethnicity, age or disability, as well as specific causes and consequences of such violence.

2005 Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities

Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities

Some ethnic minority groups actually have a higher life expectancy than the ethnically Dutch population.