Reconciling Minority Rights and State Sovereignty

We have to stand up for minority rights.

Rahim Ahwaz is an Iranian human rights activist focusing on ethnic minority rights.

Appeal for freedom of speech and respect for minority rights in Russia

Ensuring sound corporate governance and protection of minority shareholders' rights must come first.

Will Egypt gravitate toward Islamic theocracy or adopt a secular government that respects minority rights?

Iran s main opposition has also failed to address the critical issue of ethnic minority rights.

To strengthen the capacity of all our countries to implement the principles and practices of democracy and respect for human rights, including minority rights.

Libya s Jihadist Minority

Minority shareholders are hysterical.

A minority of U.S.

British citizenship, of course, guarantees freedom of expression and minority rights, and young Muslims take full advantage of this.

Whether a person belongs to the minority or the majority, that person's human rights and fundamental freedoms are sacred.

The incoming members of the Assembly therefore must address everyday issues employment, healthcare, education, social justice, minority rights, security, etc.

The Constitution of RM and the laws provide protection of the cultural, language and religious rights to all minority entities.

Women are not a minority.

Today, the most virulent examples of such minority and ethnic assertions of their group rights are to be found in Afghanistan.

Minority and ethnic rights, it appears, are only demanded at the barrel of a gun, as in Chechnya and East Timor.

Today, France s black minority is trying to organize itself along the lines of the Jewish minority.

They felt like powerless minority shareholders.

April is the national minority health month.

It is my belief, however, that human rights cannot be used as a universal idea for resolving ethnic conflicts unless the concept obtains a clear cut and expanded definition, which includes ethnic and minority rights.

The law now affects only the Shia minority, but threatens to affect pending legislation that could restrict the rights of non Shia women as well.

In fact, the latter are a tiny minority.

Tatoeba can help people to learn minority languages.

This then motivated Germán Rincón, a defence lawyer for the rights of this minority, to respond The biggest losers are the radical conservatives who attack us.

Does bilingual education mean the deterioration of minority language?

Ukraine has its own potentially separatist region in Crimea, and the country s Russian minority numbers some 8.3 million (the largest minority in Europe).

Ukraine has its own potentially separatist region in Crimea, and the country s Russian minority numbers some 8.3 million (the largest minority in Europe).

After 1989, human rights were understood as a universal code to tame state despotism. It is my belief, however, that human rights cannot be used as a universal idea for resolving ethnic conflicts unless the concept obtains a clear cut and expanded definition, which includes ethnic and minority rights.

Moreover, the AKP has broad support among Turkish voters and an admirable record of economic growth, human rights legislation, and improvement in the treatment of Turkey s Kurdish minority.

Moreover, the AKP has broad support among Turkish voters and an admirable record of economic growth, human rights legislation, and improvement in the treatment of Turkey s Kurdish minority.

Roma are the continent's fastest growing and most vulnerable minority.

Social Democrats are distinctly minority parties in most European countries.

We have ended up being a minority in our country.

Human Rights are Union Rights

Women's rights are human rights.

The hope is to agree on a new, more liberal constitution that will strengthen the rights of Turkey s largest ethnic minority and include substantial devolution of power to regional governments.

Social inclusion means that all members of society rich and poor, men and women, majority and minority groups should have equal rights and equal opportunities to benefit from rising prosperity.

What Westerners decry as human rights abuses ordinary Russians are likely to praise as policies to rid the country of alien practices and protect the majority from the subversive minority.

Some are set in minority communities fighting for equal rights, others come from places devastated by natural disasters, in other cases groups expand their horizons through music, dialogue, and more.

The minority imposed same sex marriage on us, the minority imposed marijuana on us, and while that happens, they become distracted and education falls to pieces.

Minority youth are, to be sure, over represented among those involved.

But Europeans must admit that these individuals represent a small minority.

Or does it create vast opportunities only for a small minority?