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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]
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 ...
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 ...
A dominant minority, also called elite dominance, is a minority group that wields political, economic, or cultural dominance in a country, despite representing only a subset of the overall population (a demographic minority). [citation needed] Dominant minorities are also known as alien elites if they are recent immigrants. [citation needed]
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
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 ...
Judges at the Supreme Court are to consider how women are defined in law in a landmark case brought by Scottish campaigners. It is the culmination of a long-running legal dispute which started ...
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 ...