One reason is that only a minority of any population is active politically.

The ban on headscarves has become one more denial of the existence of asocial minority.

Reem Mazzawi, one of five OHCHR Minority Fellows and co Chair of the workshop, provided information about the workshop.

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

When the Islamic revolution took place in Iran in February 1979, there was only one minority group in conflict with the Islamic Republic and opposed to the revolution the Kurdish 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.

Rights of the Batwa minority

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.

American Jews, in particular, need reminding that when one religious minority is targeted, all religious minorities are at risk.

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.

One must evaluate if the child received a major part not necessarily the largest part of his instruction in the language of the minority.

After all, this minority is one of thinkers musicians, artists, and writers, and those who move forward Russian science, technology, and economic innovation.

It is estimated that minority groups living in Somalia may constitute up to one third of the Somali population, approximately 2 million people.

Libya s Jihadist Minority

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

One of the longest established minority religious faiths in Italy is Judaism, Jews having been present in Ancient Rome since before the birth of Christ.

While he realized that the issue was a sensitive one, he hoped that the State party would respect the rights of the Macedonian minority.

He did not accept the State party's excuse that the issue was a political one, as minority issues were always political.

Only one minority community member is licensed to certify vehicular roadworthiness, making it very difficult for minorities to renew car registrations.

All but one of the statements made by NGOs focused on allegations of denial of minority rights and contained repetitions of ill founded, unsubstantiated and misguided comments.

Women and minority members

Minority Rights Group International

One common denominator of the privatization process in a number of regions is that privatization tends to concentrate most land rights in the hands of a minority.

Moreover, in the Pakistani province of Waziristan, three Sikhs, a minority in Pakistan, were abducted. When the ransom could not be raised, one was beheaded.

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.

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.

In that case, a hung parliament could see a third front coming to power as a minority government, supported tactically by one of the big parties.

And this powerful awareness rolled in over me that I was a minority, and in my own home country, based on one facet of my character.

Girls from ethnic minority backgrounds

Whereas in the past most enterprises ran simple, one process factories, such enterprises are quite probably in the minority in the 21st century.

However, one study stated these potentially beneficial measures are effective in only a minority of people, primarily due to a lack of compliance with lifestyle and diet changes.

Where there is a large linguistic minority within the country, the language of the minority is sometimes also an official language of the State concerned.

Members of the minority communities continue to feel insecure.

This information is of particular interest to minority shareholders.

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

But we are a small minority.

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.

Ms. Telalian (Greece) said that, in accordance with the Lausanne Treaty of 1923, special minority rights were granted only to members of the Muslim minority in Thrace.

The rest of the languages are spoken by minority groups.

Therefore, the minority homosexual group had less of an influence.

Two joint statements were made on behalf of minority representatives.