Rights of the Batwa minority

Human rights situation in ethnic minority areas

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.

ADALAH Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel

The Charter enshrines human rights, minority rights and equal rights before the law regardless of ethnicity, religion or beliefs.

ADALAH The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Shafa'amr

Consequently, the exercise of rights under the Declaration must not negatively affect the enjoyment of human rights for persons who do not belong to a minority, nor for persons who belong to the minority.

In their efforts to preserve the collective identity of the minority, agencies of the minority concerned cannot on the basis of the Declaration adopt measures which interfere with the individual human rights of any person belonging to that minority.

Secondly, does the debate about autonomy represent a departure from the view that minority rights are individual rights rather than collective entitlements?

The provisions which more specifically address minority language education rights both the teaching of and through the medium of one's mother tongue are generally most developed in certain minority instruments.

And how can we tell the Muslim Brotherhood, as we should, that they must respect minority rights, if we don't accept majority rights?

Poverty is a human rights issue and a factor which impedes the full enjoyment by all, including vulnerable minority groups, of those rights.

At the European regional level, educational rights relating to minority languages are developed at greater length in the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, adopted by the Council of Europe.

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).

The coordinating committee should prepare a periodic publication on the situation of minority rights in the region

The Serb minority is part of Kosovo society, and as such, it has both rights and obligations.

Substantive issues Discrimination on the basis of language freedom of expression minority rights fair trial effective remedy

To strengthen the capacity of all our countries to implement the principles and practices of democracy and respect for human rights, including minority rights.

Individualized and private ownership may also transfer to men rights, such as cultivation rights, that women and minority groups may have under customary rules.

The purpose of these activities is to raise awareness of the United Nations work on minority issues and questions, enhance cooperation with civil society, contribute to the empowerment of minorities in better defending their rights, and promote awareness of minority rights and the need for their implementation.

Courts or tribunals should be empowered to award reparations, including compensation, to the victims of violations of minority rights.

Provision should be made for effective legal representation of victims of violations of minority rights, including State legal aid

Invites the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to update and re issue the publication entitled Human Rights A Basic Handbook for UN Staff and to make it available to minority representatives with a view to promoting awareness among minority communities of the United Nations human rights programme and its monitoring and protection mechanisms

It requires constant education and the establishment of practices and institutions to uphold and protect individual, minority and public rights.

The talk shows addressed the issues of honour killings, dowry, violence against women, juvenile justice, jail reforms, child labour and minority rights.

Regional European instruments on minority rights use only the concept national minorities and do not refer to ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities .

In Yemen, we have a Jewish minority that enjoys the rights and duties of Yemeni citizenship and full freedom to practice their religious rights and rituals, as established by the constitution.

Invites the High Commissioner to seek voluntary contributions to facilitate the effective participation of minority representatives and experts on minority issues, particularly from developing countries, in minority related activities organized by the United Nations, particularly its human rights bodies, and in doing so to give particular attention to ensuring the participation of young people and women

10 See Adalah's 2004 Annual Report of Activities, Adalah The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, April 2005, pp. 15 16.

The Conference also stressed that the interests, rights and ethnic identity of the Muslim minority in Western Thrace should be respected and upheld.

As pointed out above, the rights of persons belonging to minorities are different from the rights of peoples to self determination, and minority rights cannot serve as a basis for claims of secession or dismemberment of a State.

Recommends that the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights continue organizing training on universal and regional standards and mechanisms in order to strengthen minority representatives' cooperation with human rights procedures

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.

Europe s Squandered Minority

Libya s Jihadist Minority

By the same token, Hungary is keen to urge further progress in the international promotion and protection of minority rights by the United Nations.

To phase in a value system that respected diversity, minority rights, individual and civil liberties, the Government of Jordan had adopted a reform programme focusing on education, the judiciary, women's rights, women's empowerment, human rights, people's participation and electoral legislation.

The Commission on Human Rights at its sixty first session established new special procedures on the use of mercenaries, minority issues, human rights and international solidarity, human rights and transnational corporations, protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism and the situation of human rights in the Sudan.

(Signed) Rasim Ljajić (Signed) Nebojša Čović Minister for Human and President of the Coordination Centre Minority Rights of Serbia and Montenegro for Kosovo and Metohija

Women and minority members

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.

While article 3.1 provides that persons belonging to minorities shall not be subjected to discrimination for exercising, individually or collectively, their minority rights, article 3.2 makes it clear that they shall also not be disadvantaged in any way for choosing not to belong to the minority concerned.

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.