Simons co-founded the Reentry Program for Women and Minorities in the Computer Science Department at U. C.

In 1992, Chavez was elected by the United Nations Human Rights Commission to serve a four-year term as U. S. Expert to the U. N. Sub-commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.

Minorities in Phoenix: A Profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American Communities, 1860-1992 ( U. of Arizona Press, 1994 )

In September 2005, as part of its campaign to demonstrate that the military allowed open homosexuals to serve when its manpower requirements were greatest, the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military ( now the Palm Center ), a reported that army regulations allowed the active duty deployment of Army Reservists and National Guard troops who claim to be or who are accused of being gay.

Its principal sections were: Political, Financial and Economics, Transit, Minorities and Administration ( administering the Saar and Danzig ), Mandates, Disarmament, Health, Social ( Opium and Traffic in Women and Children ), Intellectual Cooperation and International Bureaux, Legal, and Information.

In August 2008 MK deputy leader, Conan Jenkin, expressed Mebyon Kernow's support for a proposed legal challenge by Cornwall 2000 over the UK Government's exclusion of the Cornish from the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.

In 1920 the candidate of the German Party, Ernst Barczewski, was elected to the Sejm with 74. 6 percent of votes and to the Polish Senate with 34. 6 % of votes for the Bloc of National Minorities in 1928.

Minorities were not considered part of the people ( Volk ), and were consequently denied to have an authentic or legitimate role in such a state.

Italy adopted in 1999 a Linguistic Minorities Protection Law, or " Law 482 ", which includes Occitan ; however, Italian is the dominant language.

"' Settling the Hearts and Quieting the Minds of All Good People ': the Major-generals and the Puritan Minorities of Interregnum England ", in History 2000 85 ( 278 ): pp. 247 – 267, ISSN 0018-2648.

An interim report of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities ( 1993 ) says: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has put on trial, and in some cases has convicted, a number of politicians and military commanders indicted for forced deportations in that region.

Minorities, most notably Albanians, are allocated quotas for access to state universities, as well as in civil public services.

* 1978 the UNCHR endorsed the recommendation of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to distribute widely the Ruhashyankiko Report.

Minorities are still at a disadvantage when it comes to property ownership due to the past FHA regulations during the New Deal era.

The Escarré International Centre for Ethnic Minorities and Nations helped to organize the tent for the Collective Rights of Stateless Peoples, who are marginalized in an international system that recognizes only states as political units.

( 1996 ) Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages.

( 1996 ) Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages.

Statements were made in the name of ILGA in the 1993 and 1994 sessions of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and in the 1994 session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

The Screen Actors Guild Ethnic Minorities Committee was co-founded in 1972 by actors Henry Darrow, Edith Diaz, Ricardo Montalban and Carmen Zapata.

He argues that growth is driven by " Creative Minorities ": those who find solutions to the challenges, which others then follow.

* Clogg, Richard ( 2002 ): Minorities in Greece: Aspect of a Plural Society.

Markets and Minorities.

* Muslim Minorities in The West, Grey Seal, London, 1995 ( edited with S. Z. Abedin )

# Planning, preparing and servicing sessions / meetings of the Human Rights Council, the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and related working groups and of the committees established by human rights treaty bodies and their working groups ;

Ekéus was High Commissioner on National Minorities at the OSCE from 2001 till 2007, as well as on the board of directors for the Nuclear Threat Initiative ( NTI ).

In 1999 the Economic and Social Council changed its title from the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights ".

* High Commissioner on National Minorities

Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti, was assassinated on 2 March 2011 for his lifelong stand against the laws and Governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer, was killed by his own bodyguard on 4 January 2011, for standing up for a blasphemy defendant.

According to Minorities Concern of Pakistan, forced conversion of Christian and Hindu girls are on the rise in Pakistan.

An example is the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

* 1920-1937: American Committee on Religious Rights and Minorities — Chairman ; 1937-Honorary Chairman.

On the same day, a special committee called the " Committee on Fundamental Rights of Citizens and Minorities of Pakistan " was appointed to look into and advise the Assembly on matters relating to fundamental rights of the citizens, particularly the minorities, with the aim to legislate on these issues appropriately.

* Status of Minorities in Iran-excerpted from Report on Iran, 16 January 2002, by the UNCHR.

* Declaration on the Rights of Persons belonging to National, Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities

Additionally, supporters of MRF argue that banning parties on the basis of their ethnic composition constitutes an instance of ethnic discrimination and is in contravention to European law, the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in particular to which Bulgaria is a signatory.

He served as the first High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

He was appointed as the first High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in December 1992 and took up his functions in January 1993.

* ABC-CLIO Schools ; Minorities and Women During World War II-" Italian Army ", by A. J. L. Waskey

The San were represented by a regional organisation formed under San leadership, the Working group of Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa ( WIMSA ).

* Gallery of Arts and Crafts by Chinese Minorities

* State of the World's Minorities, an annual report by Minority Rights Group International

The forerunner to the BBC Asian Network was a hugely popular Asian programme, London Sounds Eastern presented by Vernon Corea who was appointed the BBC's Ethnic Minorities Adviser in the 1970s.

Minorities, some of which enjoy a status recognised by the state, such as the Sami, Swedish-speaking Finns, Romani, Jews, and Tatar, maintain their own cultural characteristics.

French speakers have generally considered that this ruling was politically motivated and legally unsound ; and have kept demanding that the Flemish interpretation of linguistic laws be softened and that Belgium ratifies the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities as per the Council of Europe's recommendations ( a demand presently blocked by most Flemish political parties ).

) The Government maintains specialized bodies, agencies and offices — including the Legislation Office, the Public Relations Office and the Office for National Minorities — that are required by the Government Act of 1998, as well as committees to decide administrative matters.

The Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Allahabad by his letter No. 123 / 5 / 1 / 62 / 1559 dated November 21, 1964 Communicated to Sourashtra Vidya Peetam, Madurai that the State Government were of the view that as only one book in Sourashtra Language had so far been submitted by Sourashtra Vidya Peetam for scrutiny, there was no point in examining the merits of only one book specially when the question regarding the usage of script-Hindi or Sourashtram, was still unsettled, and that the question of text books in Sourashtram might well lie over till a large number of books is available for scrutiny and for being prescribed as text books in Schools.

Now an awareness has arisen in the Community, and Sourashtra Vidya Peetam wants to teach the Sourashtra language through multimedia as suggested by Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in his 42nd Report for the year ( July 2003 to June 2004 ).

Following on from this, a research article that was compiled with the help of the Minorities Research Group was ' On the Genesis of Female Homosexuality by E. Bene ' for The British Journal of Psychiatry, September 1965, pp. 815 – 21.

In 2008, a study commissioned by the National Commission for Minorities suggested extension of reservation to Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians.

In 2003 he was cited as one of the 101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports by Sports Illustrated.

Headed and mainly funded by Manuel Elizalde, Jr., eldest son of a Filipino millionaire, but sometimes funded by the Philippine government under President Ferdinand Marcos, PANAMIN has been taken to mean both Private Association for National Minorities or Presidential Arm for National Minorities.