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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]
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
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 ...
Minority Rights Group (MRG) is an international human rights organisation, headquartered in London, with offices in Budapest and Kampala. The organisation's mission statement is to secure rights for ethnic , national, religious, linguistic minorities , and indigenous peoples around the world.
Minority rights, individual and collective rights of minority groups; Ethnic group, an ethnicity; Minority influence, a form of social influence; Minority language, a language spoken by a minority of the population; Minority-serving institution, a term in American higher education; Minority business enterprise, American business term
Non Hindu minorities in India have been seen as examples of minoritarianism as the Indian constitution enshrines special rights for religious minorities including cultural and economic rights under Article 30 and 31A that are denied to the Hindu majority. The minority also enjoys exemption from laws of the land like the Right to Education act.
Linguistic rights were first included as an international human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Formal treaty-based language rights are mostly concerned with minority rights. The history of such language rights can be split into five phases. [6] [7] Pre-1815.