In a minority of these, UNHCR determined status only for resettlement purposes.

The Oberwart attack deliberately targeted the Romanies, whose status as a national minority in Austria was officially recognized in 1993.

They expressed satisfaction for the special status given to three regions inhabited by persons speaking minority languages, and asked for information on the status of other linguistic minorities elsewhere in Italy.

The Committee is concerned that there is only one officially recognized minority in Greece, whereas there are other ethnic groups seeking that status.

As Shia Muslims, Iranians are a minority within the Muslim community, a reality that has caused them to feel persecuted. Rather than accept their minority status, various Iranian governments have attempted to establish their country s hegemony in the Arab world.

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.

For example, many minority hill tribe populations living in the northern highlands of Thailand are denied legal status, even though they were born in the country.

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The State party should consider eliminating discrimination on the basis of status within the Roma minority and provide to the whole Roma community a status free of discrimination, and improve its living conditions and enhance its participation in public life.

This legal status, together with the rights and advantages associated with it (which include public funding), would enable the Muslim minority to enjoy greater independence from foreign influence.

Europe s Squandered Minority

Libya s Jihadist Minority

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(a) Jewish minority

(b) Muslim minority

Regarding the status of the Black minority of Peru, members requested information as to what was done to redress the situation of pervasive discrimination, social prejudice and persistent poverty.

Concern is also expressed at the status and situation of children belonging to ethnic and religious minority groups, the girl child and children living in rural and remote areas.

Concern is also expressed at the status and situation of children belonging to ethnic and religious minority groups, the girl child and children living in rural and remote areas.

A parallel event on Minority Rights and NHRIs was organized by the NI and Minority Units, including minority fellows, during the sixteenth session of ICC.

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.

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It often happened that the language of the minority disappeared while the minority itself survived.

Minority education It is possible in Latvia to acquire education by studying in minority educational programmes.

Consistent efforts to improve the situation of minority communities in the province were made, with a view to fulfilling an essential precondition for advancement towards the process to determine Kosovo's status.

However, honeybees are a minority.

It's not a minority theory.

Rights of the Batwa minority

Girls from ethnic minority backgrounds

Sami national minority in Sweden.

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

The right to contacts has three facets, permitting intra minority contacts, inter minority contacts, and transfrontier contacts.

That process should be an interaction between the persons belonging to the minority themselves, between the minority and the State, and between the minority and the wider national society.

Since its inception, the EU has made each member state s language one of its official tongues. Recently, even Irish, spoken at home by only a tiny minority, was granted full official status.

The positions given in the above address concerning the status of the Bulgarian national minority in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia are a flagrant example of distorted facts and false and uncorroborated allegations.

The minority Tamil and Muslim communities

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Primary with minority language as additional

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