Incentives projects for ethnic minority groups (SPAG grants)

Some of the women in women's refuges originate from ethnic minority groups.

Technical Dispatch and Vocational Training (Vietnam) dressmaking and knitting trainings to ethnic minority groups.

Some ethnic minority groups actually have a higher life expectancy than the ethnically Dutch population.

The Committee notes that Tanzania is a multi ethnic State, with more than 120 ethnic and minority groups, and acknowledges its efforts to build a State where all groups live in harmony.

Technical Dispatch and Vocational Training (Vietnam) dressmaking, knitting, and mechanical repair training for ethnic minority groups in mountainous area.

Statistics on the participation of men and women and members of ethnic minority groups in the various vocational training programmes and on any measures taken to improve the training and skills of women, including rural women, and ethnic minorities statistics on the number of men and women and members of ethnic minority groups participating in private and public employment.

According to this policy, women that belong to minority groups migrants, refugees and so called ethnic minorities deserve special attention.

Girls from ethnic minority backgrounds

Human rights situation in ethnic minority areas

It is also concerned about continuing problems of ethnic discrimination and intolerance, particularly concerning the Roma and other minority groups, e.g. Serbs and Bosniaks.

On 1 September 2003, the Committee for the Participation of Women from Ethnic Minority Groups (PaVEM) was set up (see also article 11 13).

This reflects enormous efforts by the State in providing medical services for ethnic minority people in general and ethnic minority women in particular.

The Committee requests the State party to provide information in its next periodic report in this regard, including information on women belonging to ethnic minority groups.

To ensure the best possible results, specific target groups are also approached. These include schoolchildren and teachers, top managers, ethnic minority Dutch nationals, employers and employees.

Kenya was truly a multiracial and multi ethnic society, with over 42 languages, and boasted of an active commission on human rights, including commissioners from minority groups.

There is hardly any national minority, however defined, that is not also an ethnic or linguistic minority.

The minority was not constitutionally recognized as an ethnic group some members had identity cards with the names of other groups, which was deemed to constitute forced assimilation.

(a) Prioritizing budgetary allocations to ensure implementation of the economic, social and cultural rights of children, in particular those belonging to economically disadvantaged groups and minority ethnic groups, to the maximum extent of available resources and

Experience has shown that in societies where different national, ethnic, religious or linguistic groups coexist, the culture, history and traditions of minority groups have often been neglected and the majorities are frequently ignorant of those traditions and cultures.

(a) About the recent reports of ethnically motivated violence directed in particular against certain minority ethnic groups in affected areas that lack the rule of law and its enforcement machinery

A large number of villages in ethnic minority areas have reportedly been burnt down and the villagers forced to relocate as a result of military offensives against armed opposition groups.

The Committee recommends that the State party adopt legislation on the status of languages as well as effective measures to improve the knowledge of the Georgian language amongst minority groups and to increase the use of ethnic minority languages in the public administration.

Apart from that, healthcare system in the mountainous areas and for ethnic minority people has been improved, which enabled ethnic minority women to have better access to healthcare and family planning services.

A specific compensatory policy is in place to assist ethnic minority students.

However, in ethnic minority areas, divorce is usually not handled by law but by customs and practices of ethnic minorities.

Education in the areas of the ethnic minority people saw a marked improvement.

2003 Environmental Conservation Projects (Vietnam) maintaining, managing and expanding (from 0.5 hectares to 0.75 hectares) Permaculture farm constructing 95 composting toilets in the village of ethnic minority groups in the mountainous area.

There are 56 ethnic groups in China.

Domestic violence occurs in all ethnic groups.

There were also theatres for ethnic minorities, and newspapers, magazines and books in minority languages.

The Committee notes the absence of legislation regarding the status of languages, the lack of sufficient knowledge of the Georgian language by minority groups and of effective measures to remedy this situation as well as to increase the use of ethnic minority languages in the public administration (art.

The National Commission on Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Affairs is now working on a Draft Law on Nationalities to be submitted to the National Assembly with a view to further improving socio economic conditions of the ethnic minority people.

Guidance Books for learning the spirit of the Nineteen Congress of CPC in ethnic minority languages.

Enrolment of school age ethnic minority children has increased to between 85 and 90 per cent.

The proportion of ethnic woman teachers and headmasters in remote and ethnic minority areas will also be raised, and education quality in these areas be improved.

Those minority groups may be, for example, indigenous people or foreign residents.

Women of minority groups may encounter similar problems in their own countries.

Serious allegations were made in regard to the Ahwazi ethnic minority in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The boarding school system, which provides free education and accommodation for ethnic minority students, is being expanded.

Participation of political parties, ethnic nationality parties and ceasefire groups

The Committee recommends that the State party undertake all necessary measures to ensure that all children enjoy equal access to and quality of health services, with special attention to children from ethnic and minority groups, especially Roma children.

The Committee is concerned about the lack of disaggregated statistical data and other information on the situation of children, especially those belonging to different ethnic groups and the most vulnerable groups and in particular with respect to girl children, street children, disabled children, displaced, refugee and asylum seeking children, children from minority groups and Roma children.

Teams facilitate the breaking down of barriers between genders, age groups, races, ethnic groups and geographic biases.

One hundred per cent of ethnic minority pupils are admitted into grades 6 through 10 at public schools.