It enjoys the status of an official minority language in Sweden.

In a minority of these, UNHCR determined status only for resettlement purposes.

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

The question was whether the children were victims of discrimination owing to their national minority status.

For political and historical reasons, it received the status of a minority language in 2005 within the framework of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

But, in comparing groups, it is permitted to use an individual s status as member of an under represented minority in his or her favor.

As Shia Muslims, Iranians are a minority within the Muslim community, a reality that has caused them to feel persecuted. Rather than accept their minority status, various Iranian governments have attempted to establish their country s hegemony in the Arab world.

Sunnis must be persuaded that neither their minority status nor former membership in Saddam Hussein s Ba ath Party will exclude them from political and economic life.

The Committee recommends that the State party adopt legislation on the status of languages as well as effective measures to improve the knowledge of the Georgian language amongst minority groups and to increase the use of ethnic minority languages in the public administration.

If they double down on status quo policies, their reign will eventually give way to an extended period of populist inspired economic chaos and minority scapegoating.

For example, many minority hill tribe populations living in the northern highlands of Thailand are denied legal status, even though they were born in the country.

Therefore, a process for determining the future status of Kosovo, with timelines and guarantees for the protection of minority rights and other human rights, is an attractive approach.

Since 1996 Frisian has been recognised as an official minority language in the Netherlands under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, although it had been recognised by the Dutch government as the second state language ( tweede rijkstaal ), with official status in Friesland, since the 1950s.

The Committee notes the absence of legislation regarding the status of languages, the lack of sufficient knowledge of the Georgian language by minority groups and of effective measures to remedy this situation as well as to increase the use of ethnic minority languages in the public administration (art.

Consistent efforts to improve the situation of minority communities in the province were made, with a view to fulfilling an essential precondition for advancement towards the process to determine Kosovo's status.

With regard to the question of whether a group constituted a national ethnic minority, there were objective criteria, including the wishes of the group itself, that helped to determine its status.

Libya s Jihadist Minority

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.

Resolving Kosovo s status is also a necessity for the province s Serb minority, who continue to live in uncertainty, not knowing whether to look to Belgrade or Pristina for protection of their rights.

If Peña Nieto wins, he will have to deal with a strong opposition bloc in Congress, and in all likelihood with minority status for the PRI, at least in the lower house.

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.

The primary test of whether Kosovo has overcome the tragic problems of the past and matured sufficiently to allow the start of a final status process will be its treatment of its minority communities.

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

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.

But we are a small minority.

He observed that a main cause of the Working Group's ineffectiveness had been the failure to observe or apply minimal standards or criteria as to the determination of the status of a minority, unlike the Human Rights Committee.

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

If this is an important yardstick for measuring the standards in the implementation of the rule of law, democracy and minority protection, not only do we have a status quo in Kosovo and Metohija, we have a general regression.

All persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be free from discrimination on any grounds, such as gender, race, colour, language, religion, political or other beliefs, national or social origin, affiliation to a national minority, property, birth or other status.

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.