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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 ...

socially constructed identities, especially in minority communities, are the basis for creating group solidarity and political action. It is especially ...

Sinhalese policies alienated the Tamil minority, resulting in a bloody civil ... campaign by part of the country's minority Tamil population who were ...

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 ...

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 ...

available to those distinguished by their minority or under-represented status ... as the United Nations Commission on Human Rights noted, any such action, instituted ...

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 ...

for slavery, nullification, and the rights of electoral minorities, ... and articulate argument in defense of minority rights became the legal basis ...

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 ...

occurs in the native language and a minority language with varying amounts ... education in the 1960s, with the civil rights movements, witnessed a renewed ...

faith while generally respecting the rights of unbelievers, and this ... Church Fathers such as Origen were in the minority in teaching a universal ...

gave imperial subjects a series of new rights. That year, Austria united ... intermediate position between the Liberal minority of the party that advocated ...

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 ...

===Declaration of the Rights of the Child=== The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was drafted by Eglantyne ...

in reconciling the needs of the Tutsi minority and Hutu majority after ... percent Hutu, dominated by a small Tutsi minority. Burundi gained its independence ...

individuals or groups of people from minority races. Much later, the term ... in response to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King ...

was a strong advocate for children's rights, leading to her appointment ... abolitionist and a supporter of women’s rights. Inevitably, he influenced ...

Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... of the individual, salvation, and human rights became important themes in ...

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 ...

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 ...

connected with the protection of certain minority groups or protected classes ... These microagressions are whatever minority groups find offensive ...

terminating Korea's diplomatic rights. In the early twentieth century ... jurisdiction and law, and demanded rights to patrol and police the ...

(also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered ... (secret) articles dealing with Protestant rights and obligations. For example ...

*Overrepresentation of minority youths: States must systematically ... juvenile surrenders certain constitutional rights, such as a right to trial ...

is the most recognized symbol of the LGBT rights movement.]] ... in all women was at odds with the minority-rights framework of the Gay ...

In 1979, the government confirmed the rights and privileges of the ... the Miao and Dong languages of two other minority nationalities. Because of ...

South Africa finally forced the white minority to grant political and human ... Civic Society, fought for workers' rights. * Andrew Carnegie ...

In 1888 British imperialist Cecil Rhodes extracted mining rights from ... Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the white minority government, led by Ian Smith ...

Rights entitle one to perform certain acts (or be in certain states ... Rights can be considered to guide behavior, to give normative direction ...

Party promising to review the Human Rights Act 1998. This law, which absorbs the European Convention on Human Rights into ...

forced segregation, violation of voting rights, and even terrorism. The ... and biology, however, these were minority positions until the mid ...

Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... *Minority rights *Bloody Sunday - 1972, Northern Ireland ...

of other options to give the Muslim minority in India adequate protection ... Although the Indian constitution provides equal rights to all citizens ...

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 ...

to impose cultural homogeneity on all minority groups within a country ... the mass media, outside campaigns by human rights organizations, and diplomatic ...

along racial lines. Laws limiting the rights to property, marriage, and ... aggressions … upon the admitted rights of colored citizens," ...

to free itself from Rhodesia and white minority rule. For his efforts, Kaunda ... by UNIP of collaboration with the white minority governments. ...

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 ...

of the Interior. Fall then leased the rights of the oil to Harry F. Sinclair ... investigation panel's most junior minority member, Montana Democrat ...

Methodist Church and leader in the civil rights movement. He participated ... Known as the "Dean of the Civil Rights Movement," Lowery ...

Humphrey was strongly committed to achieving civil rights for all ... federal government should guarantee civil rights for non-whites and southern ...

women's suffrage, Labor union rights, and equal civil rights for ... as a leader of the small anti-slavery minority. He advocated the Homestead ...

RFK's resounding legacy is in the domain of civil rights. Along ... Kennedy a seat on the Committee as minority counsel, he promptly accepted ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations ... one religion or a group of religions over minority religions and non-believers. ...

cities. Between 1954 and 1968, the Civil Rights Movement sought to abolish ... Since the Civil Rights Movement, African-Americans have improved their ...

that led opposition to the white minority government in South Africa ... the only Africans who had had voting rights—those in Cape Province; ...

brethren. The substantial Orthodox Jewish minority is placed in the position ... in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. However, the ...

was appointed head of Egypt's human rights commission in 2003, established ... to discuss international law, human rights, economic and social development ...

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 ...

Human rights monitoring organizations and political analysts in several ... doctrine. North Korea has no national minority policy. This stands in contrast ...

constructed identities, especially in minority communities, are the basis ... ==== Civil Rights Era ==== Liberalism implicitly accepted that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This minority anticipated that the Nazi dictatorship would be replaced ... Secretariat, which suspended their voting rights. Both sides claimed they ...

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 ...

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 ...

ideals about governance and people's rights, which clashed with existing ... Hong Xiuquan (a member of the Hakka minority). The sect's militarism ...

been slowly deteriorating and their human rights are regularly violated. ... == Human rights == The religious freedom of Egypt's Coptic community ...

a majority party in government, and a minority party in opposition. The ... The positions of majority leader and minority leader were created in 1899 ...

attempt of the Americo-Liberian minority to dominate people whom ... Liberians and the Americo-Liberian minority to come together, but it ...

African Americans, through the Civil Rights Movement to a time when United ... on attracting African American and other minority students comes from Howard ...

France granted some political rights to people in the major trading ... #039;s commitment to democracy and human rights strengthened. Diouf served ...

calls for self-government and civil rights. A nationalist political ... ethnic of the Kinh, the third largest minority group with an estimated ...

slavery and even less to advance women's rights. Braude 2001 ... and an advocate of women's rights. Braude 2001 Yet another prominent ...

the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government ... to the Danbury Baptists (a religious minority concerned about the ...

and the subsequent protection of Huguenot rights, pressures to leave France ... the first areas providing full citizens rights to Huguenots in 1705, followed ...

====Enhances status of minority groups==== Far from decreasing the power of minority groups by depressing voter ...

of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United ... its methods in achieving equality of rights. Such difficulties were evident ...

and segregated population of a despised minority group. These concentrations ... stricken or sociologically defined urban minority area whose population lives ...

required China to respect the human rights of Tibetans and their desire ... At the Congressional Human Rights Caucus in 1987 in Washington, D ...

Protestants form a significant minority in some parts of the country ... least 70 Muslims in 2000. However, human rights groups had questioned the ...

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 ...

the importance of freedom and human rights while also denouncing violent ... of 1970, respecting of worker's rights and additional social demands. ...

serves the interest of a small, vocal minority; some encourage problematic ... race relations, sexual mores, women's rights, traditional modes of authority ...

early 1920s, the practice of majority and minority parties electing their floor ... ==Majority and minority parties== The "majority party" is ...

emphasis on legal standards, human rights, democratic development, ... ** Minority rights under the Framework Convention for the Protection ...

with no vice-president from the minority being elected. The school ... is portrayed as eloquently defending the rights of Jewish Christians in the ...

many opportunities now considered human rights based on their lineage, it ... There are occasional violations of human rights of Dalits (outcastes - also ...

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 ...

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 ...

was a well-known spokesperson for human rights, chairing the committee that ... suffrage, constitutional supremacy, and a bill of rights. ...

regulation to safeguard workers' rights; the former was godless, ... the Catholic majority and the Liberal minority. Pecci encouraged the struggle ...

with movements such as feminism, gay rights and ethnic minority movements ... correctness tends to be pushed by a minority rather than an organic form ...

population of Singapore and significant minority populations in Indonesia ... Chinese of South East Asia. London: Minority Rights Group, ISBN 1897693281 ...

of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Bill of Rights protected individual rights ... the 1960s, Congress has passed most civil rights legislation under its Commerce ...

the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission, the granting ... like the Chinese, do not have citizenship rights. The Anglo-Burmese, once ...

Ireland. While Protestants were a small minority in the South they became ... and other mechanisms for ensuring that minority rights are protected, that ...

from the monarchy for themselves only. No rights would apply to the non-Hungarian ... April Laws—was drafted; however, minority nationalities living in ...

including pre-marital sex and the Equal Rights Amendment. This was a sharp ... members of the House elected him Minority Leader. During his tenure ...

however, the Guard disintegrated. A minority formed groups such as the ... ==Human rights controversies== The Sandinista government, its supporters ...

the Batavian Republic, brought equal rights and emancipation for all ... pillar. They formed a considerable minority: one eighth of the population ...

barons over the Magna Carta and the royal rights, and was eventually forced ... * Carpenter, David. The Minority of Henry III. Berkeley: University ...

of Acadia and, consequently, a large minority (approx. 35 percent) is ... has a sizeable francophone Acadian minority (35 percent) and was the ...

These early works demonstrated a liberal view of workers' rights ... the majority, acted as tyrannies to the minority without the consent of any ...

force to defend British "ancient rights of commerce" in June ... segregation existed between the European minority and the Chinese majority ...

should be placed in the hands of a minority of intellectually cultivated ... should be placed in the hands of a minority of intellectually cultivated ...

what was at the time rather extensive rights to its minorities, it did ... In 1945-1946 almost the entire German minority of Czechoslovakia, ...

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 ...

must go beyond simply ensuring that members of minority races have the same rights as everyone else, and offering minority members benefits that others ...

the parliament at a time when he headed a minority government. ... he had the opportunity to head the minority government as Prime Minister ...

first in the world to enjoy full political rights, resulting in 19 elected ... and universal suffrage and full political rights for women. These reforms ...

several spells in government, first as minority governments under Ramsay ... justice and strengthening workers' rights. Labour is a full member ...

50,000 of the entrepreneurial East Indian minority from Uganda, decimating ... Respect for human rights in Uganda has advanced significantly since ...

mere name by the unruly nobles to whom a minority was convenient. Immediately ... as different from ourselves. The rights and wrongs of conquest and ...

as it shifts power toward a rich minority and blocks free trade. Sumner’s ... In his views on gender roles and women’s rights, he advocated for ...

otherwise peaceful demonstrations. Human rights activists are often arrested ... black descent, including a Cape Verdean minority. Pure Portuguese comprise ...

ban on acquiring more stations since its minority owner, Paramount Pictures ... a bold and aggressive move to acquire the rights. Knowing that its would likely ...

state apparatus to enforce property rights and to maintain unequal economic ... or spaces. (Intellectual property rights would also cease.) ...

her leadership in creating opportunities for minority athletes. Unable to attend the ceremony Ms. Fran Clayton-Gray, CEO of the Althea Gibson Foundation ...

of the French or simply a very vocal minority is open to debate. However ... equation: Every man is born with certain rights; the Jews are human beings ...

state by the Partition of Ireland in 1921, the minority Roman Catholic community which also favored union with the independent Republic of Ireland ...

station that supplied it) retains all rights for rebroadcasts; the suppliers ... state and federal sources account for a minority percentage of public television ...

of secularism, democracy, and human rights, by effort to control inflation ... Çiller is regarded as a champion of human rights; on the other, her government ...

achieve a correct or appropriate result. Minority influence is the degree ... To protect the rights and well-being of research participants, and ...

Napoleon Bonaparte reestablished the Church's rights in 1801 ... with the Jewish, Lutheran, and Calvinist minority religions. During the nineteenth ...

1955) was a tireless educator and civil rights activist born to former slaves ... so aggressively and effectively for minority involvement that she earned ...

destined to rule other peoples, for whose rights he had little if any concern ... has increased, they still represent a minority of Rhodes Scholarship winners. ...

the democratic values of freedom and equal rights, and he created a theory ... all persons in a society are granted equal rights and basic human liberties ...

as inefficient and detrimental to the rights of the individual, principles he promoted throughout his career. He distrusted the League of Nations ...

that he "never feared being in a minority." When Cosmo Lang retired ... 2. That the rights of the individual must be assured. 3. That the rights ...

A much smaller Russian-speaking minority in Lithuania has largely ... Thus, according to Romania's minority rights law, education, signage ...

the people of Cyprus into a majority and minority, based on national origin ... is also home to a significant Armenian minority, as well as a large refugee ...

quot;to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed ... deportation, and opposed attacks on the rights of labor unions to meet and ...

Racial strife between the white minority and the black majority has ... as apartheid. While the white minority enjoyed the highest standard ...

He was a strong supporter of state's rights, especially the right of ... land and clime, in the enjoyment of those rights which are set forth in our ...

reform plan to safeguard the political rights of Muslims in a self-governing ... Congress could not represent the interests of the minority ...

is given to Marshall as a radical civil rights leader. He did not follow ... of honest work and dedication for the rights of American citizens. He ...

state-sponsored discrimination and human rights violations, such as forced ... and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, developed in response to ...

in governance, a commitment to human rights, and several specific enumerated ... of 18 who possess full civil and political rights. The president nominates ...

of India. Under Buddhist law, women had rights and could own property, therefore ... with a majority of Hindus and the largest minority being Muslim. There are ...

the Japanese government offered transit rights and funding for the repatriation ... minorities and diasporas: identities and rights in the Middle East. (London: ...

which themselves have sometimes been minority coalitions ruling with parliamentary ... society since 2003, meaning they have rights to conduct weddings, etc ...

nepotism, political repression and human rights violations. In 1986 he was ... of votes. He immediately became its Minority Floor Leader. In 1963, after ...

Record as part of a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, saying, "Noah saw fit to discriminate against Ham's descendants." ...

Minorities: Syria Overview|publisher=Minority Rights Group International ... dominated regime, Syria suffers from human rights abuses and a high poverty rate. ...

systematic murder of Rwanda's Tutsi minority and the moderates of its ... Hutus among the nobility. Tutsis were a minority of the population, mostly ...

of the Jews in general, and of the Jewish minority in Romania in particular ... to resign themselves in order to become a minority with certain rights and ...

Government subsidies, licensing of fishing rights to Japan and South Korea ... The vast majority are of Polynesian ethnicity, with a small minority ...

system are a pledge (or deed) of land (or rights) in exchange for services. came several times to offer local minority nationalities blessings ...

of democratic ideals and individual rights, accompanied European imperialism ... but the Manchus, today an ethnic minority in China. Nomadic babarians ...

island. Article 21 of the treaty gave the minority Muslims on the island the ... triggered an attack against the Greek minority in Istanbul. On September ...

of political life in Sweden, defining rights and freedoms. The Act of ... languages are officially recognized as minority languages: Finnish, Meänkieli ...

term for one of the fifty-five official minority groups recognized by the ... many American conservatives and some human rights advocates. ...

principles. In recent decades, however, a minority of Reform rabbis and laity ... aspects of Jewish law which restrict equal rights for women. It allows women ...

who have long constituted a large ethnic minority of the population of the ... the Harlem Renaissance and early civil rights activists. ...

by only a very small (but influential) minority of Americans. Merk's ... practice of recognizing only limited land rights of indigenous peoples. In ...

of the Constitution and State's rights faithfully reflected the ... * Silbey, Joel H. A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in ...

of the population spoke one of the minority languages as mother language: ... in the neighboring states (Human Rights Watch; Duray 1997; FigyelőNet; ...

protest songs of the anti-war and civil rights movements in the 1960s, which ... (for example Nirvana, Mudhoney and L7), a minority (for example Pearl Jam, ...

settlers and legal restrictions on the rights of Catholics. However, this ... trained, badly supplied, and only a minority of them had functional muskets ...

United States. During the American Civil Rights movement, authors such as ... in that it is written by members of a minority community who reside within ...

guaranteed the religious and property rights of French settlers, but the ... East and has been strong proponent of the rights of the Palestinian people ...

On January 3, 1973, Steinbrenner and minority partner Burke led a ... in April 1973. (Burke remained a minority owner of the club into the ...

group of the nascent Jewish state. A minority of extreme nationalist Jewish ... the plan, arguing that it violated the rights of the majority of the people ...

in the Kingdom as a whole) had the same rights as the Hungarian nobilis ... terms (e.g. defense, foreign policy, and minority rights). ...

liberals protest against it but they were minority and couldn't change ... seats in the parliament are reserved for minority religions. Khomeini also ...

required to safeguard existing educational rights and privileges of their Protestant ... until 1896. He fought for provincial rights, weakening the power of the ...

the emerging human consciousness of human rights and the desire for a world ... those without skills, members of minority groups, and those living ...

===Santa Barbara's Environmental Rights Day 1970=== blowout, January 28, 1970, Environmental Rights Day was celebrated, where ...

Records. (They had joint distribution rights to the recordings). ... This song helped cultivate sentiment for minority rights through folk ...

people and of goods and pan-European human rights legislation at its center ... in 1867, gave the general citizenry legal rights as never before and, probably ...

until his death in 1910. Lawyer and civil rights activist Moorfield Storey ... her citizens would cherish liberty, human rights and government of, by and ...

" All people are entitled to the rights established by the state ... only the familiar threats to the rights and liberties of the people. ...

eight concentration camps targeting minority Roma and Jewish populations ... Aleksandar Ranković lost his titles and rights after a disagreement with ...

a majority can impose its will upon a minority in a way that violates their ... can use their position to intimidate minority opinions. Modern democracy ...

is always tempted enforce its will upon a minority. J.S. Mill in his book On ... concepts of civil liberties and individual rights. Most liberal democratic ...

for gender equality and women's rights, winning many arguments before ... cancer. A lifelong trailblazer for human rights and gender equality, Ginsburg ...

the British Crown, with the same historic rights and obligations as subjects ... that the writs violated the constitutional rights of the colonists. He lost ...

are considered Protestants, although a minority of Baptists reject that term. ... Abernathy was one of several major civil rights leaders who was a member ...

with the country's white minority, he made it clear that the ... Mandela presided over the transition from minority rule and apartheid, winning ...

Islamic feminists advocate women's rights, gender equality, and social ... Amin, an early advocate of women's rights in Islamic society; Alya ...

consideration of the emergent Black civil rights movement. In 1961, she published ... the Paris Commune, and the civil rights movements of the 1960s. ...

economic stagnation, and the curtailment, of human rights. ... major centers of Uzbekistan's Tajik minority. Bukhara was also home to ...

(1702–1714) sold the exclusive rights to the South Sea Company ... However, the Creoles were a small minority in the combined colony and ...

Several local and international human rights organizations, including ... also follow native Sufi orders, and a minority are Shi'ites. ...

Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792) and the father ... of the Author of the Vindication of the Rights of Women (1798), which was ...

free nor fair. New York-based Human Rights Watch accused Uzbekistan ... group of over 80 percent. The chief minority groups include Russians ...

and removed large numbers of ethnic and minority residents.date=November 2007 ... In 1964, the Civil Rights Act removed racial deed restrictions on ...

Education and other efforts of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1964 urban riots ... (Agriculture, Anti-recession policy, Civil rights, Education, Efficiency and ...

of the corruption of the clergy, the rights of the laity, and translation ... Unitarianism grew as a persecuted minority in such places as Poland ...

same club of former settler colonies. The rights of the Australian aborigines ... treachery to Lyons. Menzies then formed a minority government. When Page was ...

discuss trade, the status of the Korean minority population in Japan, the ... Russia, China, and Japan fishing for the rights to own Korea.]] ...

The Americas Watch Committee. "Human Rights in Nicaragua 1986" ... *Ortiz, Roxanne. The Miskito Indians of Nicaragua (The Minority Rights ...

I to strip Manichaeans of their civil rights. He issued a decree of death ... combated by the Church Fathers. Only a minority of Cathars held that the ...

The company was given the fur trading rights to the entire Hudson's ... School Question: Majority Rule or Minority Rights? Issues in Canadian ...

of a buyer’s market. Female and minority faculty are more likely ... and enables them to enjoy special rights to free speech unlike other ...

elected former GNC member and human rights lawyer Ali Zeidan as prime ... According to the U.S. Department of State’s annual human rights ...

eight concentration camps targeting minority Roma and Jewish populations ... the fact that the Croats were again in a minority. Trends after 1965, however ...

Their sacrificial duties, vestments, and rights to a share of various offerings ... of the tribe of Judah. However, a minority claim Levite descent, and ...

was dominated by family members, who were minority Roman Catholics from central ... with a view towards reforming human rights, the constitution and the ...

social disintegration, and massive human rights violations. The Acholi and ... Amin forcibly removed the entrepreneurial Indian minority from Uganda ...

Because of its failure to protect labor rights, Belarus lost its European ... ===Human rights and freedom=== [[Image:State TV Belarus.jpg|thumb|Broadcasting ...

previous owners. While encroaching on the rights of the traveler or merchant ... While this interpretation is now a minority view, it is based on several ...

Hitler to Paul von Hindenburg as only a minority part of an alternative, ... two political parties, representing a minority in the Reichstag: The Nazis ...

peer support, and self-help. In a minority of cases, there might be ... on unobservable phenomena; and from gay rights activists who criticized ...

by the military, has suspended many civil rights and banned opposition to ... , a rise in alleged attacks on minority groups (such as Hindus and ...

the south, the Gagauz, a Turkic-speaking minority, formed Gagauz Halkî (Gagauz ... number of treaties protecting women's rights were ratified, but men, women ...

to be tolerant of and support the human rights of all lifestyles. Emory ... 1962, in the midst of the American Civil Rights Movement, Emory embraced ...

picture by Newsweek. Outcry from minority rights groups followed. Time illustrator Matt Mahurin was the one to alter the image, saying later ...

to protect and guarantee the right of the minority to hold and propagate its ... Mill's advocacy of women's rights. He cited her influence in ...

even though it contradicted the universal rights that were enshrined in the ... out. Some viewed it as denying people rights that were enshrined in the ...

Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights remained in Addis Ababa in ... Extensive human rights abuses still occur in several parts of Africa ...

(1702–1714) sold the exclusive rights to the South Sea Company ... although regular use is limited to a literate minority. ...

During the brief minority of Sigebert II, the office of the mayor ... The young Sigebert was dominated during his minority by the mayor ...

refugees and made some reforms in Aboriginal land rights. ... Fraser opposed white minority rule in Rhodesia. During the 1979 Commonwealth ...

200,000 verses).China Society for Human Rights Studies, [http://www.humanrights ... Academy of Social Sciences and the Ethnic Minority Literature Institute of ...

in the lobby outside the office of Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd. On July ... ** Civil rights icon Rosa Parks: the first woman and second African ...

countries agreed to recognize Romanian rights over Transylvania, which ... and Romani being the most important minority languages, spoken by 6.7 ...

peppered with protest, especially in minority communities or those associated ... invention, economic progress, women's rights and suffrage, freedman's ...

9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, and requested that ... of persecution of the Muslim Rohingya minority. However, soon Aung San ...

Mexico indigenous people are a small minority: they are practically absent ... A small minority today within Colombia's overwhelmingly Mestizo ...

Mount Lebanon has long been a shelter for minority and persecuted groups, including ... courts have been criticized by human rights organizations for "seriously ...

Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Commission and Convener and ... 1985. The Refugee Dilemma. London, UK: Minority Rights Group. ISBN 9780946690237. ...

Asian in appearance and culture are the minority. Recent research suggests ... Suarez), Muslims constitute a significant minority. Muslims (about seven percent ...

Like Jackie Robinson and some other minority athletes, Thorpe, a Sac ... the movie, as he had already sold the film rights to MGM in 1931 (for $1500 ...

discrimination, and to ensure the civil rights of all people irrespective ... should protect homosexuals as a civil rights issue. On the other side ...

in ancient Greece. The Spartans formed a minority in their own territory of ... The Spartans were a minority of the Lakonian population. By far the ...

areas. The Hindkowans constitute a large minority in major cities such as ... Hanafite branch of Sunni Islam. A small minority of Ithna Asharia Shia Pashtuns ...

the act and demanded more complete voting rights for the black African majority ... whose goal was to replace white minority-rule with a one-party Marxist ...

French queen. Disputes arose involving the rights of various imperial princes ... Silesia made up the largest, and most restless minority. ...

regions, each with a designated minority group; four municipalities; ... ===Sociopolitical issues, human rights and reform=== [[File:港人燭光遊行 ...

Ferdinand II adamantly oppressed Protestant rights in Bohemia; consequently ... for the restoration of the historic rights of the Czech Kingdom, whereby ...

Principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility ... Although the infirm elderly constitute only a small minority of the ...

Mergers with competitors and the patent rights owned by each company made ... B2B e-Commerce solutions. GE maintains a minority ownership position in GXS. ...

as advocating an Islamic state or cultural rights for an ethnic minority. Turkey ... privileges, and while the term "minority" itself remains a sensitive ...

freedom and realization of the basic human rights of self-determination, others ... opposition from forces representing minority local communities who feel ...

and Alabama, for the American civil rights movement. Atlanta, Georgia ... However, there were so many dissenters (Protestants of minority denominations; ...

foreign troops, interned according to the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers ... of the Federation. It ensures the rights of individuals and citizen ...

island, adjacent islets, and commercial rights to the mainland between the ... The government greatly restricts the rights of its citizens. The judicial ...

Jewish culture or for ideological, human rights, or strategic reasons. Because ... in Palestine, while not compromising the rights of other communities living ...

Along with the Uyghurs and Kazakhs, other minority ethnic groups in Xinjiang ... Strategic Concerns: The Impact on Human Rights in Xinjiang: Roundtable Before ...

nation's role in isolating the white minority regime.Nelson Mandela, ... common good is desecrated and human rights are defiled, one must lay ...

the Bolsheviks in Moscow were a minority in relation to the Mensheviks ... the Bolsheviks had previously been a minority in Moscow behind the Mensheviks ...

commitment to democracy, peace and human rights and her ability to generate ... from out of poverty. Her belief that the minority have a right to protection ...

can chastise them but not severely. Their rights upon you are that you should ... strictly observed by more than an elite minority, and are not generally enforced ...

having a broad array of political rights and civil liberties present ... Israel often struggles with issues of minority rights, especially when it ...

published journals advocating political rights and social freedom for India ... which granted separate electorates to minority communities, including Muslims ...

For years after World War II, a significant minority of the inmates ... Soviet of RSFSR, passed the Declaration of Rights and Freedoms of the Individual ...

a pattern that lasted until the civil rights movement and federal legislation ... intended to protect their voting and civil rights. Such legislation also protected ...

and repression of civil and human rights. The government still does ... belonging to the Niger-Congo family. A minority speak Central Sudanic languages ...

negotiated the formation of successive minority coalition governments. The ... and its level of respect for human rights." With Sweden, New Zealand ...

The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789 ... The U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights, passed in 1791, specifically ...

Mexican Miracle. The assumption of mineral rights by the government, and the ... 32 senators assigned to the first minority (one per state and the Federal ...

commune; individual peasants would have rights to strips of land to be assigned ... the Polish uprising of 1863. Unlike other minority nationalities, the Poles ...

cautious approach to the emerging civil rights movement. Like earlier American ... Following the landmark 1954 civil rights ruling Brown v. Board of ...

African Americans by championing Negro rights, and protesting the evictions ... began recruiting heavily in impoverished minority neighborhoods in the U.S ...

has emerged as a staunch defender of human rights, as a strong advocate of ... #039;s Party, which sought to retain the rights of the Swedish-speaking minority. ...

king was obliged to respect citizens' rights specified in King Henry& ... with the king-elect, including a bill of rights, binding on the king, derived ...

and Kamenev found themselves in a tiny minority and were soundly defeated ... trials,"] PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements ...

Exists in Psychological Coercion & Human Rights. * Barker, Eileen ... * Richardson, James T. 1994. "Brainwashing Claims and Minority ...

Cossacks. As such, they received the same rights and benefits as their Russian ... starvation and exposure. Deprived of any rights, the Kalmyk community ceased ...

has agreed to exercise its sovereign rights in conformity with French ... in that the native Monegasques are a minority in their own country;immigrants ...

and the concepts of democracy, human rights and Montesquieu's separation ... History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre. Princeton ...

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his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught ... tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens ...

In September, the co-author of the Human Rights Watch report on Somalia ... the language of instruction in schools. Minority languages do exist, such ...

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today's Montana farmers are a minority lifestyle in Montana, agriculture ... of the first states to give women voting rights. Despite its sizable American ...

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sides involved represented a privileged minority, and that the disturbances ... responsible government, civil rights and equality, universal taxation ...

the achievement gap between white and minority students; second, it required ... a focus on encouraging democracy and human rights. Bush strongly lauded the ...

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left-wing ideology. During this time, a minority of anarchists adopted tactics ... and feminists were advocating for the rights and autonomy of women, gays ...

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Muslims, though there is a significant Christian minority. ... Covenant, an agreement that stipulated the rights and obligations of all non ...

immigration and respect aboriginal land rights. Immigrants mostly from southern ... took place in Kaohsiung to celebrate Human Rights Day. Although the protest ...

opportunities and women had equal rights in employment that contributed ... A minority, both representing the "Soviet man" (Arkady Gaidar ...

Private property rights were reinstated from 1991, collective farms ... * Wilson, Andrew. Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A minority faith ...

environmental protection, women's rights, abortion, and other issues ... percent of the population, its Walloonian minority, 31 percent of the population ...

while Schleswig had a sizable Danish minority in its north but was majority ... would play that of the protector of German rights and liberties. ...

law that revoked most of the historical rights and privileges of the different ... was an ongoing dispute over German mining rights in Spain. Some historians ...

Virginia, as well as the sale of a minority interest in the club. These ... Frazee sold the rights to Babe Ruth for $100,000, the largest sum ...

the Jewish population was reduced to a minority for the first time since ... granted Jewish citizens the same civil rights as other Greek citizens. ...