Girls from ethnic minority backgrounds

Human rights situation in ethnic minority areas

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

Incentives projects for ethnic minority groups (SPAG grants)

Traditional communities, particularly minority ethnic groups are often threatened.

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

Ethnic minority women are under represented in the labour market.

Some of the women in women's refuges originate from ethnic minority groups.

A specific compensatory policy is in place to assist ethnic minority students.

Apart from that, healthcare system in the mountainous areas and for ethnic minority people has been improved, which enabled ethnic minority women to have better access to healthcare and family planning services.

However, in ethnic minority areas, divorce is usually not handled by law but by customs and practices of ethnic minorities.

Rahim Ahwaz is an Iranian human rights activist focusing on ethnic minority rights.

Education in the areas of the ethnic minority people saw a marked improvement.

Both the dominant ethnic group and the minority ethnic groups have citizenship and are able to fully participate in the political process.

These include schoolchildren and teachers, top managers, ethnic minority Dutch nationals, employers and employees.

Technical Dispatch and Vocational Training (Vietnam) dressmaking and knitting trainings to ethnic minority groups.

Iran s main opposition has also failed to address the critical issue of ethnic minority rights.

Since 1994 the Roma Sinti (gypsies) have been an officially recognised ethnic minority in Austria.

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

There were also theatres for ethnic minorities, and newspapers, magazines and books in minority languages.

The Turks in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as Bosnian Turks, are ethnic Turks who form the oldest ethnic minority in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The National Commission on Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Affairs is now working on a Draft Law on Nationalities to be submitted to the National Assembly with a view to further improving socio economic conditions of the ethnic minority people.

Enrolment of school age ethnic minority children has increased to between 85 and 90 per cent.

The proportion of ethnic woman teachers and headmasters in remote and ethnic minority areas will also be raised, and education quality in these areas be improved.

Minority ethnic groups are therefore often able to sway the balance of power between major competing forces.

Serious allegations were made in regard to the Ahwazi ethnic minority in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The boarding school system, which provides free education and accommodation for ethnic minority students, is being expanded.

One hundred per cent of ethnic minority pupils are admitted into grades 6 through 10 at public schools.

In March 2003 the Inventory of government policy on ethnic minority women and girls' was presented to Parliament.

Statistics on the participation of men and women and members of ethnic minority groups in the various vocational training programmes and on any measures taken to improve the training and skills of women, including rural women, and ethnic minorities statistics on the number of men and women and members of ethnic minority groups participating in private and public employment.

Other democratic opposition groups, and genuine ethnic minority representatives, also need to be given a voice in the process.

, 26.5 of primary and 22.2 of secondary pupils at state schools in England were members of an ethnic minority.

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

A project launched by the Multicultural Institute for Political Participation offers courses to ethnic minority women with political ambitions.

Technical Dispatch and Vocational Training (Vietnam) dressmaking, knitting, and mechanical repair training for ethnic minority groups in mountainous area.

As Europe s largest ethnic minority, Roma inside the EU comprise the youngest and fastest growing demographic segment of the population.

According to this policy, women that belong to minority groups migrants, refugees and so called ethnic minorities deserve special attention.

Many provinces have a policy giving priority to the admission of ethnic minority children at junior and senior secondary schools.

At university level, ethnic minority women lag behind less than men, while the opposite is true in higher professional education.

The Special Rapporteur is seriously concerned at ongoing allegations of forced labour throughout Myanmar, and particularly in ethnic minority states.

The Committee notes that Tanzania is a multi ethnic State, with more than 120 ethnic and minority groups, and acknowledges its efforts to build a State where all groups live in harmony.

All these languages are in official use in municipalities or cities where the ethnic minority exceeds 15 of the total population.

In 2007, 22 of primary school children in England were from ethnic minority families, and in 2011 that figure was 26.5 .

Today, 95 per cent of ethnic minority children in Viet Nam have been vaccinated against six diseases through extensive immunization programmes.

In combating discrimination against ethnic minority women there is a specific focus on their achieving economic independence through employment and education.