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Such civil-rights advocates include the global women's-rights and global LGBT-rights movements, and various racial-minority rights movements around the world (such as the Civil Rights Movement in the United States). Issues of minority rights intersect with debates over historical redress [1] or over positive discrimination. [2]
A dominant minority, also called elite dominance, is a minority group that wields political, economic, or cultural dominance in a country, despite representing only a subset of the overall population (a demographic minority). [citation needed] Dominant minorities are also known as alien elites if they are recent immigrants. [citation needed]
The Minority Treaties, recognized as history's first minority treaties, [24] were an important step in protection of minorities and recognition of human rights, bringing the subject to an international forum. In them, for the first time, states and international communities recognized that there are people living outside normal legal protection ...
[13] [14] Opponents of affirmative action have argued that it is a form of reverse discrimination, [15] that it tends to benefit the most privileged within minority groups at the expense of the least fortunate within majority groups, [16] or that—when applied to universities—it can hinder minority students by placing them in courses for ...
First-generation rights, often called "blue" rights, [citation needed] deal essentially with liberty and participation in political life. They are fundamentally civil and political in nature, as well as strongly individualistic : They serve negatively to protect the individual from excesses of the state.
If so, that is going to be small comfort to a minority whose fundamental rights are trampled on by an abusive majority. I think you need to consider seriously two possibilities; first, that a majority will infringe on the rights of a minority, and second, that a majority may oppose democracy itself. Advocate: Let's take up the first. The issue ...
Black Eagle said Sheehy’s words have left many tribal members outraged. “That old adage of ‘all Indians are drunks’-type rhetoric has been around since I was a kid.
Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia; Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities; Denk (political party) Dettmer v. Landon; Domowina