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

Education in the areas of the ethnic minority people saw a marked improvement.

Regional European instruments on minority rights use only the concept national minorities and do not refer to ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities .

Religious minorities may also require different types or contexts of participation than ethnic or national minorities.

Apart from that, healthcare system in the mountainous areas and for ethnic minority people has been improved, which enabled ethnic minority women to have better access to healthcare and family planning services.

On the other hand, women of ethnic minorities are not yet fully aware of their rights.

The Committee invites the State party to facilitate the participation of ethnic minorities in the elaboration of cultural and educational policies.

Bias in the presentation of the history and neglect of the contributions of the minority are significant causes of ethnic tension.

Nevertheless, young people note with concern the increasing discrimination against ethnic minorities in some educational settings.

As a result, the percentage of ethnic illiterates has fallen and by 2002 stood at 22.6 . The enrollment of ethnic pupils is on the rise compared to the year 2000.

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

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.

The proportion of ethnic woman teachers and headmasters in remote and ethnic minority areas will also be raised, and education quality in these areas be improved.

12. Strongly condemns continuing discrimination against women and girls as well as ethnic and religious groups, including minorities, wherever such discrimination takes place

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

Besides, obsolete customs and practices among some ethnic minorities, including child marriage, are impeding the advancement of women.

In the case of ethnic minority people in some areas of socio economic difficulties, the right of the people to property ownership is not fully observed.

The Committee also expresses its satisfaction at recent measures taken by the State party to strengthen the participation of ethnic minorities in its political institutions.

In addition, the Government recognizes the problem of children of ethnic minorities, especially girls, increasingly becoming victims of human trafficking.

The Committee is disturbed by reports of the infringement of the freedom of religion of members of religious minorities, in particular Christians, who are also often members of ethnic minorities.

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

The conclusions and recommendations adopted at the Bishkek meeting covered three different themes legislation and its implementation and national institutions dealing with minorities development of the languages, cultures and education of minorities and peaceful and constructive prevention and settlement of conflicts between ethnic minorities.

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.

The question has been raised as to whether special measures in favour of national or ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities constitute a distinction in the enjoyment of human rights.

Major challenges at present are the ratio of poor households remains high mainly in the rural, upland and ethnic minority areas which are faced with economic and social difficulties.

The Committee recommends that the State party include detailed information in its next periodic report on the situation of ethno religious minorities, and that it adopt the bill on freedom of conscience and religion designed to protect those minorities against discrimination and, in particular, against acts of violence.

The Committee notes with concern the reports regarding the discrimination of ethnic minorities in the State party, in particular in the field of employment, adequate standard of living, health, education and culture.

1.1 States shall protect the existence and the national or ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic identity of minorities within their respective territories and shall encourage conditions for the promotion of that identity

In the conclusions, it was stated, inter alia, that the Central Asian States had inherited an approach to minorities that promoted assimilation and the continued denial of problems relating to ethnic minorities.

More importantly, ethnic minority women suffer from more disadvantages than men since they have limited power in decision making, low level of education and thus, having fewer chances.

In this regard, the Committee regrets the insufficient information provided by the State party regarding the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights enshrined in the Covenant by populations in the ethnic minority areas.

In this connection, and while acknowledging the effort made by the State party to fight ethno religious violence, the Committee remains concerned about the situation of ethno religious minorities, such as the Yezidi Kurds (art.

However, as in all countries, there were minorities, including ethnic minorities such as the Kurds who spoke their own language and were especially prevalent in rural areas.

Particular attention was paid to the development of actions that placed high priority on the safety and protection of victims, especially young people most vulnerable to domestic violence, such as young women, Aboriginal women, women with a disability, immigrant women and women from ethnic communities.

The Committee takes note of the delegation's explanations regarding the reluctance of the authorities to classify ethnic groups in the Lao People's Democratic Republic as minorities or indigenous peoples (arts. 1, 2 and 5).

2003 Environmental Conservation Projects (Vietnam) maintaining, managing and expanding (from 0.5 hectares to 0.75 hectares) Permaculture farm constructing 95 composting toilets in the village of ethnic minority groups in the mountainous area.

These include a training programme for indigenous teachers in the border region between Bolivia and Chile, and another programme in Yunnan, China, dealing with trafficking in children from ethnic minorities.

Mr. Mavrommatis (Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Iraq) assured the representative of Turkey that he was in no way inattentive to the situation of ethnic, religious and other minorities.

It is also concerned at the lack of programmes to support minority languages, and that those languages are not used in the educational system to an extent commensurate to the proportion of the different ethnic communities represented in the State party's population (art.

To fix this problem, Ministries, agencies and localities are required to make greater efforts to implement the National Strategy for the Advancement of Women to 2010 with due attention paid to rural areas, mountainous and ethnic minority people's areas and islands.

The Committee also requests the State party in its next periodic report to include annual comparative data, disaggregated by rural urban regions, the percentage of gross domestic product allotted for education, health and housing programmes, in particular in the ethnic minority regions.

(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

(f) Displaced minorities and other situations affecting minorities

A restriction to one sex or one ethnic group.

Diaspora politics is the political behavior of transnational ethnic diasporas, their relationship with their ethnic homelands and their host states, as well as their prominent role in ethnic conflicts.