(h) Annual report of the independent expert on minority issues (resolution 2005 79, para. 7).

(h) Annual report of the independent expert on minority issues (resolution 2005 79, para. 7).

Having considered the Report of the Secretary General on the Muslim Minority in Myanmar (Document No. ICFM 32 2005 MM SG.REP.4)

Libya s Jihadist Minority

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

Having considered the report of the Secretary General on the issue of the Turkish Muslim Minority of Western Thrace in Greece (Document No.

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.

Women and minority members

Minority Rights Group International

Today, France s black minority is trying to organize itself along the lines of the Jewish minority.

Majority influence refers to the majority trying to produce conformity on the minority, while minority influence is converting the majority to adopt the thinking of the minority group.

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.

Rights of the Batwa minority

Girls from ethnic minority backgrounds

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.

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

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

He was concerned that the report interpreted freedom of movement of minorities to mean the daily escorted transport of 250 minority members to their place of work.

But we are a small minority.

However, we cannot but note the uneven progress in the implementation of the standards, primarily those focusing on minority issues, which is reflected in the Secretary General's report.

Consider supporting the development of an international convention on minority rights and the establishment of a uniform definition of a minority

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

Christianity is a minority religion in Egypt.

Christianity in Azerbaijan is a minority religion.

Christianity is a small minority in Mauritania.

Christianity in Mongolia is a minority religion.

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.

We are pleased to note that the Secretary General states in paragraph 6 his report that the Government has made the enhancement of minority rights a priority in its programme .

Recommended by the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee at its meeting in August 2005, except by a minority of three members (see section 2.4.2 of the Committee's October 2005 report).

Ukraine has its own potentially separatist region in Crimea, and the country s Russian minority numbers some 8.3 million (the largest minority in Europe).

Minority and majority influence combined There is evidence to suggest that it is possible for minority influence and majority influence to work together.

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

Instead, they seek to restore Sunni minority rule.

There is a large Chinese minority in Namibia.

Christianity in the Comoros is a minority religion.

Minority situations addressed and measures requested by minorities

Children belonging to a minority or indigenous group

Incentives projects for ethnic minority groups (SPAG grants)

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.

The constitution guarantees rights for minority languages, however there are 13 municipalities with German minority constituting 10 of population, which qualifies for such provisions.

In 1996 the Kvens were granted minority status in Norway, and in 2005 the Kven language was recognized as a minority language in Norway.