Incentives projects for ethnic minority groups (SPAG grants)

Traditional communities, particularly minority ethnic groups are often threatened.

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

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

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

In Ukraine, newspapers and magazines are published in the languages of the minority ethnic groups.

There are two large minority ethnic groups in Colombia the indigenous population and the Black population.

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

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

Girls from ethnic minority backgrounds

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.

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

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

Human rights situation in ethnic minority areas

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

In the early 1990s, there was considerable tension on ethnic minority issues and ethnic minority grounds between Romania and Hungary.

Indigenous ethnic groups

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.

It is well known that there are several ethnic minority groups living in Greece, arbitrarily unrecognized and persecuted by the Greek authorities.

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

The Committee is concerned that there is only one officially recognized minority in Greece, whereas there are other ethnic groups seeking that status.

Minority groups frequently have different religious needs.

It is also concerned about continuing problems of ethnic discrimination and intolerance, particularly concerning the Roma and other minority groups, e.g. Serbs and Bosniaks.

On 1 September 2003, the Committee for the Participation of Women from Ethnic Minority Groups (PaVEM) was set up (see also article 11 13).

67. Minority groups in Estonia have the right to form their own cultural unions and societies and to organize their own ethnic school system.

Ethnic minority women are under represented in the labour market.

He's part of this ethnic minority called the Pontic Greeks.

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

Members also wished to know if there were any political parties in the United Kingdom established on ethnic grounds, how many members of parliament were members of ethnic minority groups, and what impact ethnic communities had on parliamentary elections.

The Committee requests the State party to provide information in its next periodic report in this regard, including information on women belonging to ethnic minority groups.

They also wished to have more detailed information concerning the impact of the policy of national unity on ethnic and religious minority groups in 30 states.

These target groups include women, indigenous populations, migrant workers and members of minority groups.

(iii) Promote dialogue between minority groups in society and between those groups and Governments

Domestic violence occurs in all ethnic groups.

Boundaries between ethnic groups are seldom sharp.

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

Kenya was truly a multiracial and multi ethnic society, with over 42 languages, and boasted of an active commission on human rights, including commissioners from minority groups.

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.

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

(a) Prioritizing budgetary allocations to ensure implementation of the economic, social and cultural rights of children, in particular those belonging to economically disadvantaged groups and minority ethnic groups, to the maximum extent of available resources and

The rest of the languages are spoken by minority groups.

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.

Suppression, depression, occupation, persecution, annihilation, obliteration, execution, destitution, religious and ethnic minority discrimination.

Broad ethnic groups by sex and residence, 2000