Guatemala also enjoys great ethnic and cultural diversity.

The war has pulverized Iraqi society, dissolving it into an ethno sectarian patchwork.

A few days later, I visited The White Sun of the Desert, another ethnic hangout.

The phenomenon of terrorism was not associated with any religion, culture or ethnicity.

The Kosovo Police Service (KPS) and the Kosovo Corrections Service (KCS) are fully multi ethnic (a priority).

Lebanon is yet another ethnic tapestry that cannot be immune to events in Syria.

Furthermore progress has been made in joining ethnically divided institutions, and a degree of cooperation between the moderate majorities of the main political parties has started to emerge.

Crime rates are showing no evidence of ethnic bias in policing or judicial processes.

Some members of the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly have alleged an ethnic imbalance in the Government of Southern Sudan.

Beatrix, like Franz Joseph, refuses to make ethnic or religious distinctions between her subjects.

Each large tent is given a letter number combination, and the rows and sections of tents coincide with ethnic and linguistic communities Palestinian Syrians, Iraqi Kurds, Yazidis, Afghans, and so on.

Around 89 of the population consists of ethnic Georgians, with significant populations of other ethnic groups such as Armenians, Russians, and Azeris.

DRC added that the statement equated a group of an ethnic origin other than Danish with crime.

Nor do genocide or ethnic cleansing seem to have occurred if war crimes were perpetrated, they do not justify a military invasion.

But it will not necessarily take a drought, a coup, a war, or a genocide to make them think twice.

Their leaders are youngish men in sharp suits, who don t use the language of race, but that of freedom and democracy.

After a few days while the commentariat hesitated before competing narratives, the media are settling on the explanation that it was ethnic racial religious abuse that drove Nidal crazy.

The regime s effort to turn its struggle for survival into an ethnic and sectarian conflict could wreak havoc across the region, starting with neighbors like Lebanon and Iraq.

Before World War II, football clubs often had an ethnic or religious component Tottenham Hotspur in London was Jewish, while Arsenal was Irish.

The concert was organised to raise international awareness and fund relief efforts for refugees from then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), following the genocide perpetrated by Pakistan army and their collaborators during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Malaysia has since maintained a delicate ethno political balance, with a system of government that has attempted to combine overall economic development with political and economic policies that promote equitable participation of all races.

The police unit in charge of the case up to now has not been able to come up with any formal charges against George Zimmerman, whose act is considered as a racial crime by many.

You ask about more people of color within the police force? I was born in Spain, my parents arrived here when they were six years old, and I ve always been associated with, and nudged towards, people of my race.

Before a police investigation has even begun, some journalists, and some politicians, pronounce an event to be ethnically motivated, thus feeding the fears of the Kosovo Serb community, including internally displaced persons.

At present, only three African countries1 are engaged in major conflict, although a number of others are experiencing civil strife of a lower intensity, involving ethnic and religious violence.

In the 1920's and 1930's, the Belgian authorities enacted policies that defined the population along ethnic lines and favored the Tutsi in a deliberate and successful effort to divide society and fan resentment among Hutu leaders.

NATO s actions in Kosovo followed dramatic and systematic abuse of human rights, culminating in ethnic cleansing on a scale not seen in Europe since World War II.

DRC added that the statement postulated that immigrants and refugees were potential terrorists, thereby generally and unobjectively equating a group of people of an ethnic origin other than Danish with crime.

In a world where anti Semitism and racism fester, where prejudice on national, religious, colored based, or ethnic grounds foster discrimination, that is the view that best nurtures the rights of all.

Of course, this is an impossible demand. Short of unleashing massive and bloody ethnic cleansing Bosnia, on a continental scale Americans and others have no choice but to get used to living in increasingly diverse societies.

Singapore has an ethnically diverse population and boasts of having a government that promotes racial harmony. However, racial tension has intensified in recent years, which some ultranationalist groups are blaming on the arrival of foreign workers.

Between 1960 (the year of independence) and 1983, recruitment to the Central African Civil Service and appointments to political office and senior administrative and technical posts were carried out without any discrimination or distinction on ethnic, tribal, regional or political grounds.

In implementing the Millennium Development Goals, States should ensure the absolute prohibition of racial discrimination and, where appropriate, should promote multicultural policies, affirmative action and special measures necessary for poverty reduction among indigenous communities.

Modern European populists don t wear black shirts, or indulge in street violence. Their leaders are youngish men in sharp suits, who don t use the language of race, but that of freedom and democracy.

Renan gave priority to this will for a common life over any ethnic definition and set the French idea of the nation in direct contrast to the almost racial notion of people (Volk) that dominates the German tradition.

Whether it is mutilations in Sierra Leone, genocide in Rwanda, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans or disappearances in Latin America, the parties to conflicts have acted with deliberate indifference to those conventions.

A nation is, at root, an ethno linguistic occasionally religious entity, and because it is through language and liturgy that culture is transmitted, each nation will have its own distinctive cultural history, available for use and misuse, invention and discovery.

The first such cause is the legacy of colonization. In the 1920's and 1930's, the Belgian authorities enacted policies that defined the population along ethnic lines and favored the Tutsi in a deliberate and successful effort to divide society and fan resentment among Hutu leaders.

If a state fails to live up to its side of the bargain by sponsoring terrorism, either transferring or using weapons of mass destruction, or conducting genocide, then it forfeits the normal benefits of sovereignty and opens itself up to attack, removal, or occupation.

With the threat that the US House of Representatives will approve a resolution that accuses Turks of genocide against ethic Armenians nine decades ago, this is a particularly inopportune moment for the two countries to be at odds over Iraq.

With support and encouragement from abroad, the separatist leaders have been using the negotiation process to claim legitimacy for themselves as the representatives of the will of the inhabitants of the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova, and have promoted the idea of a pseudo State, for which there are no ethnic, religious or other plausible grounds.

There remain many good reasons for investors to take a chance on Africa s frontier markets. But it will not necessarily take a drought, a coup, a war, or a genocide to make them think twice.

Cooperation between the moderate majorities of the main political parties started to show its effects as once ethnically divided institutions were unified, civil service appointments in line with the new civil service law were made, and a unified city budget was passed in June.

Following a natural disaster, discrimination may arise in the distribution of humanitarian and reintegration assistance as well as in other aspects of the response, such as in decisions regarding relocation and resettlement. This risk is especially high when the affected areas have pre existing patterns of discrimination or ethnic conflict.

Each State Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary, including, where appropriate, domestic legislation, to ensure that criminal acts within the scope of the present Convention are under no circumstances justifiable by considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other similar nature.