Hungary has also made a great deal of progress where minorities are concerned. Of all the countries in Central Europe, Hungary is the one where minorities, relatively speaking, are in the best position.

Minorities tend to experience economic inequality and political marginalization. This negative trend shows no sign of waning.

Typically, in the populist political imagination, elites disproportionately care for 160 those who, like themselves, do not really belong.

We have to stand up for minority rights.

In China, there are 56 minorities.

Basically these are still minorities today.

And, in different periods, Lebanon has managed and mismanaged official policy toward religious and ethnic minorities.

We owe a lot to the minorities of Sri Lanka! PresPollSL lka Sanjaya Wijeratne ( skwijeratne) January 9, 2015

Are you tolerant towards ethnic minorities?

By protecting minorities, Morsi could demonstrate to other governments and political movements the importance of minority rights and encourage them to behave likewise.

Religious minorities have become more insecure.

Those that we call minorities now are going to be the majority.

Ethnic minorities struggle against prejudice, poverty and so on.

Ethnic minorities struggle against prejudice and poverty.

We will not tolerate discriminatory treatment of the minorities.

The new law will deprive religious minorities of their right to vote.

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Many of the authoritarian regimes now under threat of collapse cultivated the support of minorities.

(h) Forced displacement of its citizens, including a disproportionate displacement of ethnic minorities

16. Emphasizes the importance of ensuring the rights of all national minorities in the country

Noting the importance of the respect for the rights of all persons belonging to minorities,

(c) The disproportionate suffering of members of ethnic minorities, women and children from such violations

The cultural autonomy of minority peoples is an exceptional phenomenon in European cultural history.

In doing so, they typically inflame passions against religious and ethnic minorities.

Mosul had a Kurdish majority, with significant Assyrian Christian and Turkoman minorities

Ethnic minorities struggle against prejudice, poverty, and oppression.

What we demand is an economic understanding for the peoples of Central Europe, an understanding of the fact that we must help them to bear this burden they have inherited from the war.

Representatives of human rights, religious minorities or civil society had done likewise.

Adalah The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel likewise asserted

When times are tough, immigrants and minorities become easy targets.

But such an approach is unworthy of a democratic parliament which respects the views held by minorities.

But, while democracies do have a better record of protecting minorities, a democratic system does not guarantee respect for minorities any more than autocracy ensures their repression.

2. Recognizes that respect for human rights and the promotion of understanding and tolerance by Governments as well as between and among minorities are central to the promotion and protection of the rights of persons belonging to minorities

An enlightened autocrat can be just as protective of minority rights as a solidly democratic government.

Action is also needed here on our part because of the resurgence of ethnic minorities.

Concerned by the frequency and severity of disputes and conflicts concerning minorities and their often tragic consequences, and concerned also that persons belonging to minorities are particularly vulnerable to displacement,

On 12 February 1925, the Estonian government passed a law on the cultural autonomy of minorities.

(g) To eliminate all forms of discrimination based on religious grounds or against persons belonging to minorities

130. We note that the promotion and protection of the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities contribute to political and social stability and peace and enrich the cultural diversity and heritage of society.

Charlie Hebdo has ridiculed various minorities, including black people, Jews and Catholics, in France.

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In addition to persecuting minorities, the Islamic State has set about erasing all physical traces of religious diversity.

15. Invites the High Commissioner to seek voluntary contributions to facilitate the effective participation, including through training seminars, in the work of the Working Group on Minorities of representatives of non governmental organizations and persons belonging to minorities, in particular those from developing countries

(f) To eliminate all forms of discrimination based on religious grounds or against persons belonging to minorities, including the Baha'is, Christians, Jews and Sunnis, and to address this matter in an open manner, with the full participation of the minorities themselves

A politician who represents the interests primarily of economic elites has to find other means of appealing to the masses.