Also relevant will be whether it is a long established minority or a new minority composed of recent immigrants, whether or not they have obtained citizenship.

When applying those instruments it is important to define national minority , but the same problem does not arise for the 1992 Declaration on Minorities of the United Nations even if a group is held not to constitute a national minority, it can still be an ethnic, religious or linguistic minority and therefore be covered by the Declaration.

The erection of bilingual signs has technically been permitted since 2001, if a minority constitutes 10 of the population of a municipality.

So called guest workers (Gastarbeiter) and their descendants, as well as refugees from the Yugoslav wars and other conflicts, also form an important minority group in Austria.

They comprise a significant minority, loud and well organized.

10.2 The author argues that as a member of a minority group, he is entitled to the protection of economic activities that comprise an essential element of his culture.

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

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

Christianity is a small minority in Mauritania.

Christianity in the Comoros is a minority religion.

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

(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

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.

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.

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

However, a minority of Twitter users seemed to think this was a good idea.

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

Conservative leader Kåre Willoch formed a minority government after the election of 1981.

Women of minority groups may encounter similar problems in their own countries.

The 1923 Lausanne Convention had not recognized them as such and they therefore enjoyed the same rights and privileges as all citizens.

There is a growing mixed population, along with a significant Indo Caribbean or East Indian groups, a small European origin minority (descendants of French, British, and Irish colonists) and there are small numbers of Lebanese, Syrians and Asians.

12.7 Referring to its earlier jurisprudence, the Committee considers that States parties to the Covenant may regulate activities that constitute an essential element in the culture of a minority, provided that the regulation does not amount to a de facto denial of this right.

As Egypt was Arabized and Islamized, the Copts became a minority in their original homeland.

Only a minority of Ethiopians are born in hospitals most of them are born in rural households.

A small minority of Liberians of European descent reside in the country.

As a result, the resolution enjoys the support of only a minority of Member States.

The most numerous national minorities in BiH are the Roma.

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

8.8 On article 27, the State party notes that the authors have simply invoked this provision without making any attempt at explaining how a group defines itself as non Christians, can constitute a religious minority within the meaning of article 27.

In some societies, democracy is simply a way for the majority to repress the minority.

A tiny minority of such men might lash out in desperation.

Today s dissenters are indeed a minority and of course can be disregarded, but only up to a point.

Even in Greece, where conditions are the worst, Golden Dawn is still a minority party.