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Minority rights cover protection of existence, protection from discrimination and persecution, protection and promotion of identity, and participation in political life. For the rights of LGBT people, the Yogyakarta Principles have been approved by the United Nations Human Rights Council .
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 ...
[33] [34] As this history shows, multiculturalism in Western countries was seen to combat racism, to protect minority communities of all types, and to undo policies that had prevented minorities from having full access to the opportunities for freedom and equality promised by the liberalism that has been the hallmark of Western societies since ...
The awareness on the part of certain states of the impacts of the liberalization of economic exchanges on their cultural policies is the trigger for the emergence of the concept of cultural diversity [11] and the need to protect the diversity of cultural expressions, particularly because of the strength of the Hollywood film market. [12]
According to political scientist Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., analyzing the causes of and lack of protection from human rights abuses in the Global South should be focusing on the interactions of domestic and international factors—an important perspective that has usually been systematically neglected in the social science literature. [14]
Shaw v. Reno (1993) - ruled that redistricting must be held to strict scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause; Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña (1995) - ruled that affirmative action imposed by the federal government must pass strict scrutiny; Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) - upheld affirmative action in college admissions. Shelby County v.
(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his campaign against diversity programs on Tuesday by pressuring the private sector to join the initiative, ordering aviation officials to review ...
The HCNM frequently recommends that states take measures to protect minority languages, as this is one of the major causes of inter-ethnic tension. [38] However, the OSCE and HCNM also promote a policy of integration, which strives for a balance between protection of minority culture and the development of an overarching common identity.