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

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

And so with all these crises, we have let's see ethnic and minority tensions we have chemical and nuclear spills, nuclear proliferation.

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

With a population of 253,899, Hungarians are the largest ethnic minority in Serbia, concentrated predominately in northern Vojvodina and representing 3.5 of the country's population (13 in Vojvodina).

Setting such a precedent in Kosovo must be avoided to ensure stability not only in the Balkans, but in all countries with dissatisfied ethnic minority populations.

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.

That s where they will build the dam, Xiao Chun, a 17 year old Naxi, one of Yunnan s 22 ethnic minorities, said.

Although it is not possible to determine with certainty the number of Roma in Bosnia and Herzegovina (assessments of Roma associations vary from 17,000 to nearly 80,000), it is quite certain that they represent the major ethnic minority.

A young Spanish man who is a member of an ethnic minority group put it this way I worry when I go on the street that the police will stop me and ask me for my papers because of the color of my skin, by my tone of skin, by my way of walking.

(a) About the recent reports of ethnically motivated violence directed in particular against certain minority ethnic groups in affected areas that lack the rule of law and its enforcement machinery

They comprise a significant minority, loud and well organized.

A young Spanish man who is a member of an ethnic minority group put it this way I worry when I go on the street that the police will stop me and ask me for my papers because of the color of my skin, by my tone of skin, by my way of walking.

A minority population which is almost totally neglected in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is the Roma population.

But we are a small minority.

Rights of the Batwa minority

He drew attention to general comment No. 23, according to which the existence of an ethnic, religious or linguistic minority in a given State party did not depend upon a decision by that State party but required to be established by objective criteria.

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

Indeed, there is no specific religious or ethnic character to these riots, in so far as youth from various ethnic backgrounds have taken part.

Christianity is a small minority in Mauritania.

Kvens ( kveeni in Kven language Finnish kvener in Norwegian, and kveanat in Northern Sami) are an ethnic minority in Norway who are descended from Finnish peasants and fishermen who emigrated from the northern parts of Finland and Sweden to Northern Norway in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Ms. Telalian assured Mr. Wieruszewski that the Government had strong feelings about the essential role of non governmental organizations and was closely cooperating with all civil society groups her reference had been simply to one particular NGO which devoted itself to concerns of one ethnic minority.

This has made indigenous Kazakhs the largest ethnic group.

Ethnic groups China officially recognizes 56 distinct ethnic groups, the largest ofwhich are the Han Chinese, who constitute about 91.51 of the totalpopulation.

Christianity in the Comoros is a minority religion.

A small minority belong to the Finnish Orthodox Church (1.1 ).

The war in the Pacific was a race war.

Identity There are 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in China.

He and his fellow dissidents were a tiny minority, too.

Andrew Fisher then formed another minority government 1908 09.

The Labor Party formed a minority government with the 3 independents.

The situation of the Terik minority was raised for the first time outside Kenya.

The Batwa minority remains marginalized within the Burundian society.

We have seen ethnic wars and wars fought to make governments stop killing their citizens.

Russian nationalists were predicting an ethnic mayhem, terrorist explosions, and racial clashes.

Welsh people could be the oldest ethnic group in the UK.

The 2011 elections resulted in a minority Labour administration led by Carwyn Jones.

In addition to the Polish majority, there was a significant Jewish minority in Warsaw.

Early meetings of the Congress contained a minority of Muslims, mostly from the elite.

The Chinese, estimated at about 15,000, are the only significant immigrant minority.

There is a small minority of about of Swedish speakers in the city.

Lebanon also has a Jewish population, estimated at less than 100.

Others apparently a minority have ruled to the contrary.

The Asmat are an ethnic group of New Guinea, residing in the Papua province of Indonesia.

And the hated, treasonous religious minority was not Muslim, but Jewish.