Search results for "Minority Rights" - New World Encyclopedia
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- people -- in this case, using a racial minority for experimental purposes in such a way that disregards their basic human rights and dignity ...907 bytes (160 words) - 22:12, 23 August 2021
- socially constructed identities, especially in minority communities, are the basis for creating group solidarity and political action. It is especially ...961 bytes (134 words) - 23:52, 29 November 2023
- Sinhalese policies alienated the Tamil minority, resulting in a bloody civil ... campaign by part of the country's minority Tamil population who were ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 09:08, 9 October 2022
- to provide some protection for the civil rights of the newly-freed slaves ... the ELR had denied him his constitutional rights under the Thirteenth and ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 08:04, 24 November 2022
- of the leaders of the non-violent civil rights movement in Northern Ireland ... Hume became a leading figure in the civil rights movement in the mid 1960s ...10 KB (1,561 words) - 06:00, 3 August 2022
- available to those distinguished by their minority or under-represented status ... as the United Nations Commission on Human Rights noted, any such action, instituted ...23 KB (3,279 words) - 20:11, 7 July 2023
- whatever their form, are run by a small minority of members of society, and ... whatever their form, are run by a small minority of members of society. From ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 00:19, 18 November 2022
- for slavery, nullification, and the rights of electoral minorities, ... and articulate argument in defense of minority rights became the legal basis ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- of citizens with interests contrary to the rights of others or the interests ... of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole ...19 KB (2,859 words) - 01:53, 26 March 2024
- occurs in the native language and a minority language with varying amounts ... education in the 1960s, with the civil rights movements, witnessed a renewed ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 03:50, 1 October 2023
- faith while generally respecting the rights of unbelievers, and this ... Church Fathers such as Origen were in the minority in teaching a universal ...15 KB (2,291 words) - 10:03, 29 July 2022
- gave imperial subjects a series of new rights. That year, Austria united ... intermediate position between the Liberal minority of the party that advocated ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 18:17, 12 February 2024
- is Christianity. When it began, it was a minority system of beliefs and controversial ... issue as crucial to international human rights law. Limiting the definition ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:44, 11 January 2024
- ===Declaration of the Rights of the Child=== The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was drafted by Eglantyne ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 15:33, 10 December 2023
- in reconciling the needs of the Tutsi minority and Hutu majority after ... percent Hutu, dominated by a small Tutsi minority. Burundi gained its independence ...23 KB (3,228 words) - 18:48, 22 November 2023
- individuals or groups of people from minority races. Much later, the term ... in response to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:19, 11 August 2022
- was a strong advocate for children's rights, leading to her appointment ... abolitionist and a supporter of women’s rights. Inevitably, he influenced ...10 KB (1,507 words) - 21:08, 4 October 2022
- Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... of the individual, salvation, and human rights became important themes in ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- male line died out, but renounced his rights in 1851 in favor of his sister ... of Independence, monarchists were a minority in the Finnish Eduskunta ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- in the 110th Congress, she was the House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007 ... In 2001, Pelosi was elected the House Minority Whip, second-in-command ...46 KB (6,718 words) - 20:14, 3 January 2023
- connected with the protection of certain minority groups or protected classes ... These microagressions are whatever minority groups find offensive ...39 KB (5,227 words) - 19:39, 26 April 2022
- terminating Korea's diplomatic rights. In the early twentieth century ... jurisdiction and law, and demanded rights to patrol and police the ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 08:52, 3 April 2024
- (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered ... (secret) articles dealing with Protestant rights and obligations. For example ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 17:25, 6 October 2020
- *Overrepresentation of minority youths: States must systematically ... juvenile surrenders certain constitutional rights, such as a right to trial ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 21:26, 4 October 2022
- is the most recognized symbol of the LGBT rights movement.]] ... in all women was at odds with the minority-rights framework of the Gay ...37 KB (5,369 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- In 1979, the government confirmed the rights and privileges of the ... the Miao and Dong languages of two other minority nationalities. Because of ...21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
- South Africa finally forced the white minority to grant political and human ... Civic Society, fought for workers' rights. * Andrew Carnegie ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 03:17, 24 November 2022
- In 1888 British imperialist Cecil Rhodes extracted mining rights from ... Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the white minority government, led by Ian Smith ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- Rights entitle one to perform certain acts (or be in certain states ... Rights can be considered to guide behavior, to give normative direction ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 01:39, 15 December 2022
- Party promising to review the Human Rights Act 1998. This law, which absorbs the European Convention on Human Rights into ...37 KB (5,594 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- forced segregation, violation of voting rights, and even terrorism. The ... and biology, however, these were minority positions until the mid ...36 KB (5,283 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... *Minority rights *Bloody Sunday - 1972, Northern Ireland ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- of other options to give the Muslim minority in India adequate protection ... Although the Indian constitution provides equal rights to all citizens ...25 KB (3,703 words) - 06:10, 8 March 2024
- later became the United States Bill of Rights. The whole series is cited ... later became the United States Bill of Rights. The idea of adding a bill ...32 KB (4,993 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
- to impose cultural homogeneity on all minority groups within a country ... the mass media, outside campaigns by human rights organizations, and diplomatic ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- along racial lines. Laws limiting the rights to property, marriage, and ... aggressions … upon the admitted rights of colored citizens," ...23 KB (3,411 words) - 22:42, 7 December 2022
- to free itself from Rhodesia and white minority rule. For his efforts, Kaunda ... by UNIP of collaboration with the white minority governments. ...24 KB (3,642 words) - 16:28, 24 August 2023
- in favor of free speech and other human rights as well as aid for the lower classes. He declared that the Arab nationalist state that he wanted ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- of the Interior. Fall then leased the rights of the oil to Harry F. Sinclair ... investigation panel's most junior minority member, Montana Democrat ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights movement. He participated ... Known as the "Dean of the Civil Rights Movement," Lowery ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:42, 11 August 2022
- Humphrey was strongly committed to achieving civil rights for all ... federal government should guarantee civil rights for non-whites and southern ...32 KB (4,916 words) - 21:09, 7 February 2024
- women's suffrage, Labor union rights, and equal civil rights for ... as a leader of the small anti-slavery minority. He advocated the Homestead ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 09:47, 28 September 2023
- RFK's resounding legacy is in the domain of civil rights. Along ... Kennedy a seat on the Committee as minority counsel, he promptly accepted ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ... one religion or a group of religions over minority religions and non-believers. ...36 KB (5,594 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- cities. Between 1954 and 1968, the Civil Rights Movement sought to abolish ... Since the Civil Rights Movement, African-Americans have improved their ...38 KB (5,325 words) - 06:03, 16 June 2023
- that led opposition to the white minority government in South Africa ... the only Africans who had had voting rights—those in Cape Province; ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- brethren. The substantial Orthodox Jewish minority is placed in the position ... in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. However, the ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 23:53, 11 January 2023
- was appointed head of Egypt's human rights commission in 2003, established ... to discuss international law, human rights, economic and social development ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 19:59, 20 November 2023
- Unlike many other provisions of the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court ... the grand jury's work; there is no minority report. Each published report ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 12:16, 24 January 2023
- Human rights monitoring organizations and political analysts in several ... doctrine. North Korea has no national minority policy. This stands in contrast ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 06:36, 28 February 2023
- constructed identities, especially in minority communities, are the basis ... ==== Civil Rights Era ==== Liberalism implicitly accepted that the ...40 KB (5,610 words) - 14:15, 4 February 2023
- had issues with the curtailment of human rights under the nation's authoritarian ... stagnation, and the curtailment of human rights. Tashkent has been the target ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- they also work to protect the human rights of all people within their ... article 18 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Under ...14 KB (2,186 words) - 00:16, 12 April 2023
- This minority anticipated that the Nazi dictatorship would be replaced ... Secretariat, which suspended their voting rights. Both sides claimed they ...51 KB (7,375 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- of 1948 under the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party banner. ... a U.S. Senator in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He later moderated ...27 KB (3,778 words) - 21:01, 26 February 2023
- failed to provide them many of the civil rights that were enjoyed by white ... until the passage of Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, it ...25 KB (3,783 words) - 04:40, 22 November 2023
- ideals about governance and people's rights, which clashed with existing ... Hong Xiuquan (a member of the Hakka minority). The sect's militarism ...20 KB (2,973 words) - 00:49, 21 April 2023
- been slowly deteriorating and their human rights are regularly violated. ... == Human rights == The religious freedom of Egypt's Coptic community ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 03:00, 8 January 2024
- a majority party in government, and a minority party in opposition. The ... The positions of majority leader and minority leader were created in 1899 ...85 KB (12,273 words) - 00:47, 30 December 2023
- attempt of the Americo-Liberian minority to dominate people whom ... Liberians and the Americo-Liberian minority to come together, but it ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- African Americans, through the Civil Rights Movement to a time when United ... on attracting African American and other minority students comes from Howard ...28 KB (3,869 words) - 19:30, 7 February 2024
- France granted some political rights to people in the major trading ... #039;s commitment to democracy and human rights strengthened. Diouf served ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- calls for self-government and civil rights. A nationalist political ... ethnic of the Kinh, the third largest minority group with an estimated ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- slavery and even less to advance women's rights. Braude 2001 ... and an advocate of women's rights. Braude 2001 Yet another prominent ...26 KB (3,720 words) - 15:24, 27 April 2023
- the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government ... to the Danbury Baptists (a religious minority concerned about the ...29 KB (4,563 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- and the subsequent protection of Huguenot rights, pressures to leave France ... the first areas providing full citizens rights to Huguenots in 1705, followed ...28 KB (4,156 words) - 15:10, 9 February 2024
- ====Enhances status of minority groups==== Far from decreasing the power of minority groups by depressing voter ...55 KB (8,357 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United ... its methods in achieving equality of rights. Such difficulties were evident ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 23:05, 31 October 2023
- and segregated population of a despised minority group. These concentrations ... stricken or sociologically defined urban minority area whose population lives ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 23:27, 21 October 2023
- required China to respect the human rights of Tibetans and their desire ... At the Congressional Human Rights Caucus in 1987 in Washington, D ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 2023
- Protestants form a significant minority in some parts of the country ... least 70 Muslims in 2000. However, human rights groups had questioned the ...26 KB (3,688 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- of the majority or which denies human rights and civil liberty. ... was to defend the interests of the small minority tribes, such as the Kalenjin ...24 KB (3,582 words) - 06:24, 15 January 2023
- the importance of freedom and human rights while also denouncing violent ... of 1970, respecting of worker's rights and additional social demands. ...34 KB (5,074 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- serves the interest of a small, vocal minority; some encourage problematic ... race relations, sexual mores, women's rights, traditional modes of authority ...27 KB (4,003 words) - 08:31, 10 January 2024
- early 1920s, the practice of majority and minority parties electing their floor ... ==Majority and minority parties== The "majority party" is ...71 KB (10,564 words) - 21:06, 30 December 2023
- emphasis on legal standards, human rights, democratic development, ... ** Minority rights under the Framework Convention for the Protection ...42 KB (6,144 words) - 08:27, 10 January 2024
- with no vice-president from the minority being elected. The school ... is portrayed as eloquently defending the rights of Jewish Christians in the ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 13:10, 27 January 2023
- many opportunities now considered human rights based on their lineage, it ... There are occasional violations of human rights of Dalits (outcastes - also ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 14:24, 29 November 2023
- resident aliens, and Jews—who formed a restless minority. The ruler of the town, Apion bequeathed it to the Romans, but it kept its self-government ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- as one of the precursors to the African-American Civil Rights Movement ... are considered to be the least deserving minority in terms of equal opportunities ...36 KB (5,381 words) - 06:53, 16 June 2023
- was a well-known spokesperson for human rights, chairing the committee that ... suffrage, constitutional supremacy, and a bill of rights. ...17 KB (2,401 words) - 22:23, 27 June 2023
- regulation to safeguard workers' rights; the former was godless, ... the Catholic majority and the Liberal minority. Pecci encouraged the struggle ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- with movements such as feminism, gay rights and ethnic minority movements ... correctness tends to be pushed by a minority rather than an organic form ...38 KB (4,999 words) - 19:46, 31 October 2022
- population of Singapore and significant minority populations in Indonesia ... Chinese of South East Asia. London: Minority Rights Group, ISBN 1897693281 ...45 KB (6,097 words) - 10:53, 11 March 2023
- of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Bill of Rights protected individual rights ... the 1960s, Congress has passed most civil rights legislation under its Commerce ...45 KB (6,808 words) - 12:57, 12 February 2022
- the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission, the granting ... like the Chinese, do not have citizenship rights. The Anglo-Burmese, once ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- Ireland. While Protestants were a small minority in the South they became ... and other mechanisms for ensuring that minority rights are protected, that ...32 KB (4,882 words) - 18:46, 23 March 2023
- from the monarchy for themselves only. No rights would apply to the non-Hungarian ... April Laws—was drafted; however, minority nationalities living in ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- including pre-marital sex and the Equal Rights Amendment. This was a sharp ... members of the House elected him Minority Leader. During his tenure ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 17:06, 28 August 2021
- however, the Guard disintegrated. A minority formed groups such as the ... ==Human rights controversies== The Sandinista government, its supporters ...20 KB (2,936 words) - 02:50, 8 January 2024
- the Batavian Republic, brought equal rights and emancipation for all ... pillar. They formed a considerable minority: one eighth of the population ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- barons over the Magna Carta and the royal rights, and was eventually forced ... * Carpenter, David. The Minority of Henry III. Berkeley: University ...14 KB (2,076 words) - 22:21, 8 February 2022
- of Acadia and, consequently, a large minority (approx. 35 percent) is ... has a sizeable francophone Acadian minority (35 percent) and was the ...32 KB (4,639 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- These early works demonstrated a liberal view of workers' rights ... the majority, acted as tyrannies to the minority without the consent of any ...19 KB (2,968 words) - 15:43, 25 January 2023
- force to defend British "ancient rights of commerce" in June ... segregation existed between the European minority and the Chinese majority ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- should be placed in the hands of a minority of intellectually cultivated ... should be placed in the hands of a minority of intellectually cultivated ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2022
- what was at the time rather extensive rights to its minorities, it did ... In 1945-1946 almost the entire German minority of Czechoslovakia, ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- new relations based on respect for human rights and justice developed between ... of a Catholic majority state. Forming a minority in the North, the "partition ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 15:58, 17 May 2024
- must go beyond simply ensuring that members of minority races have the same rights as everyone else, and offering minority members benefits that others ...25 KB (3,714 words) - 22:06, 25 January 2024
- the parliament at a time when he headed a minority government. ... he had the opportunity to head the minority government as Prime Minister ...30 KB (4,303 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
