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Minority rights are the normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or gender and sexual minorities, ...
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 ...
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities refers to the Declaration in para. 24 of its Explanatory Report.. The CIS Convention Guaranteeing the Rights of Persons Belonging to National Minorities (in other translations - Convention on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National Minorities, or Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Persons Belonging to National ...
The broad aims of the convention are to ensure that the signatory states respect the rights of national minorities, undertaking to combat discrimination, promote equality, preserve and develop the culture and identity of national minorities, guarantee certain freedoms in relation to access to the media, minority languages and education and encourage the participation of national minorities in ...
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
Western countries used a regular U.N.-backed review of China's human rights record on Tuesday to press Beijing to do more to allow freedom of expression, protect the rights of ethnic minorities ...
Minority-owned businesses make up about half of all the new businesses created in the last decade. According to the 2022 Annual Business Survey from the U.S. Census Bureau, 1.2 million or 21 ...
The act's "general provisions" provide nationwide protections for voting rights. Section 2 is a general provision that prohibits state and local government from imposing any voting rule that "results in the denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen to vote on account of race or color" or membership in a language minority group. [11]