In 1961, 69 of the women minority group never attended school, compared to 30 of the male minority group.

Children belonging to a minority or indigenous group

In this situation, without safeguards for minority shareholders, the latter group may be adversely affected.

This provision is directed both towards the State and the agencies of the minority group.

The Working Group will also continue its examination of ways to mainstream minority rights in the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, with the submission of a paper by the Minority Rights Group (E CN.4 Sub.2 AC.5 2005 WP.4).

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

The Working Group was informed about the situation of the Turkmen minority in Iraq, including in areas controlled by Kurds.

In the course of the discussion, members of the Working Group and minority representatives expressed their appreciation for the paper.

It was also difficult to distinguish a minority group, as the population comprised a good number of Turks and Kurds.

Invites the Governments concerned to respond, during the session of the Working Group, to the concerns raised by the minority organizations

Members of visible minority groups were added as a designated group for employment equity purposes in 1993 and were surveyed in 1994.

When applying those instruments it is important to define national minority , but the same problem does not arise for the 1992 Declaration on Minorities of the United Nations even if a group is held not to constitute a national minority, it can still be an ethnic, religious or linguistic minority and therefore be covered by the Declaration.

Minority group identity requires not only tolerance but a positive attitude towards cultural pluralism on the part of the State and the larger society.

Representatives of several NGOs in a joint statement called for the Working Group to organize a regional meeting on minority issues in the Middle East.

The plaintiffs are members of Europe s poorest and largest minority group the Roma, or Gypsies, whose ancestors are believed to have migrated from India centuries ago.

They are in charge of coordination and assistance for more effective execution of the rights of Roma, the largest national minority group in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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.

A parallel event on Minority Rights and NHRIs was organized by the NI and Minority Units, including minority fellows, during the sixteenth session of ICC.

Europe s Squandered Minority

Libya s Jihadist Minority

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.

There was an appeal to the Working Group to call on the Government of Myanmar to repeal the Citizenship Law and to incorporate minority rights into national legislation.

A review of the role of the Working Group was undertaken, including its importance in providing minority participants with access to and raising issues at the United Nations, in adopting general recommendations or comments, and in cooperating with the proposed new mandate of an independent expert on minority issues.

Women and minority members

10.2 The author argues that as a member of a minority group, he is entitled to the protection of economic activities that comprise an essential element of his culture.

That process should be an interaction between the persons belonging to the minority themselves, between the minority and the State, and between the minority and the wider national society.

There is hardly any national minority, however defined, that is not also an ethnic or linguistic minority.

The right to contacts has three facets, permitting intra minority contacts, inter minority contacts, and transfrontier contacts.

However, honeybees are a minority.

It's not a minority theory.

Rights of the Batwa minority

Girls from ethnic minority backgrounds

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.

Recommends the continued operation of the Minority Fellowship Programme and the further preparation of a minority profile and matrix

In evaluating his claim the Committee should take into account his Romani ethnicity and the fact that his membership in a historically disadvantaged minority group renders him particularly vulnerable to degrading treatment.

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.

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

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.

Grave statements by political leaders prominent people that express support for affirmation of superiority of a race or an ethnic group, dehumanize and demonize minorities, or condone or justify violence against a minority.

April is the national minority health month.

Supreme Court lawyer dealing with minority issues

Companies operated by minority communities need support.

Human rights situation in ethnic minority areas

The mechanisms chosen have to take into account whether the persons belonging to the minority in question live dispersed or in compactly settled groups, whether the minority is small or large, or an old or a new minority.

This reflects enormous efforts by the State in providing medical services for ethnic minority people in general and ethnic minority women in particular.