Minorities | search
Click here to view Minorities news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- After 30 years, minorities still need to be seen and heardTo mark the 30th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Minority Rights, minority rights experts gathered for a virtual roundtable on “Strengthening protection of minority rights under the Declaration” to explore how far minority rights protection has come and where we go from here.
- Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic ...Persons belonging to minorities have the right to establish and maintain, without any discrimination, free and peaceful contacts with other members of their group and with persons belonging to other minorities, as well as contacts across frontiers with citizens of other States to whom they are related by national or ethnic, religious or ...
- About minorities and human rights | OHCHRThe outcome document of the 2005 World Summit of Heads of State and Government, approved by the General Assembly, notes that “the promotion and protection of the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities contributes to political and social stability and peace and enriches the cultural diversity and heritage of society”.
- “We must do more to protect minorities” - UN Human Rights OfficeThrough its very first article, the Declaration established that States must protect the existence, identity and the rights of minorities to equality and participation. “We all recognise that promoting and protecting minorities is an obligation inherent in universal human rights and this is in the interest of society as a whole,” Türk said.
- About minorities and human rights | OHCHRMinorities exist in every country of the world, enriching the diversity of their societies. Minority identity is understood to involve subjective and objective elements. The self-identification of the person concerned is taken to be determinative. UN definitions—set out primarily in a 1992 Declaration—focus on four categories: national, ethnic, religious and linguistic. It is commonly ...
More
