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  2. Minority rights - Wikipedia

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    Subsequent human rights standards that codify minority rights include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Article 27), the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, two Council of Europe treaties (the Framework Convention for the Protection of ...

  3. Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

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    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 ...

  4. United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues

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    The UN Human Rights Commission created this body on April 21, 2005 by means of a resolution [1] that also defined the mandate. This UN mandate is limited to three years and is regularly renewed. After the UN Human Rights Council was replaced in 2006 by the UN Human Rights Council, [2] [3] it is now in charge and exercising oversight. The last ...

  5. Minority Treaties - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Dexamethasone - Wikipedia

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    Dexamethasone is a fluorinated glucocorticoid medication [10] used to treat rheumatic problems, a number of skin diseases, severe allergies, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), croup, brain swelling, eye pain following eye surgery, superior vena cava syndrome (a complication of some forms of cancer), [11] and along with antibiotics in tuberculosis. [10]

  7. Why some cultures think pork is gross and others think it's ...

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    In a medieval British text, a woman explains that she won't serve pork because pigs "eat human shit in the streets." Pigs also dined on human flesh, which was available because executed prisoners ...

  8. Social exclusion - Wikipedia

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    Social exclusion is the process in which individuals are blocked from (or denied full access to) various rights, opportunities and resources that are normally available to members of a different group, and which are fundamental to social integration and observance of human rights within that particular group [5] (e.g. due process).

  9. Over 100 employees sued a Houston hospital for requiring ...

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    The lawsuit, filed Friday, includes the names of more than 100 staffers and alleged that the hospital was "forcing its employees to be human 'guinea pigs' as a condition for continued employment."