Ms. Akşit (Turkey) said that she wished to clarify that, in her view, the Kurds were not a minority.

Secondly, does the debate about autonomy represent a departure from the view that minority rights are individual rights rather than collective entitlements?

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.

Here, I merely wish to reiterate that I would respond to the argument that some seek to impose the majority view through the vote by saying that we are very tired of having the minority view imposed on us through consensus.

In her view, there was a need to make provision for the legal entitlement of autonomy due to its expanding use as a tool to accommodate minority issues.

In March 2003 the Inventory of government policy on ethnic minority women and girls' was presented to Parliament. The aim was to gain an overall view of existing policy in the areas of education, employment rate and economic independence, sexual autonomy and self development for poorly educated ethnic minority women.

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.

Europe s Squandered Minority

Libya s Jihadist Minority

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.

Women and minority members

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.

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.

However, honeybees are a minority.

It's not a minority theory.

Rights of the Batwa minority

Girls from ethnic minority backgrounds

Invites the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to update and re issue the publication entitled Human Rights A Basic Handbook for UN Staff and to make it available to minority representatives with a view to promoting awareness among minority communities of the United Nations human rights programme and its monitoring and protection mechanisms

Recommends the continued operation of the Minority Fellowship Programme and the further preparation of a minority profile and matrix

In 1961, 69 of the women minority group never attended school, compared to 30 of the male minority group.

Efforts have been made to increase minority employment in the revenue raising institutions and make them more accessible to minority communities.

A minority of the participants held the view that reform should not make the decision making process of the United Nations less reflective of the realities of power and capacity outside the halls of the world body.

April is the national minority health month.

Supreme Court lawyer dealing with minority issues

Companies operated by minority communities need support.

Human rights situation in ethnic minority areas

The mechanisms chosen have to take into account whether the persons belonging to the minority in question live dispersed or in compactly settled groups, whether the minority is small or large, or an old or a new minority.

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

The World Bank Group apparently applies this concept to its corporate procurement operations with a view to increasing job creation opportunities, increasing income for minority groups, building capacity in all categories of expenditure, advancing economic opportunities and development.

Expresses its deep concern over the safety and security of the Muslim minority in India, in view of the gross human rights violations of thousands of innocent Muslims in various parts of India, including their right to life.

In their efforts to preserve the collective identity of the minority, agencies of the minority concerned cannot on the basis of the Declaration adopt measures which interfere with the individual human rights of any person belonging to that minority.

That means that us terrestrials occupy a minority.

European Centre for Minority Issues Mr. Mark WELLER

Children belonging to a minority or indigenous group

Incentives projects for ethnic minority groups (SPAG grants)

Decides to forward the statements made at the eleventh session by minority representatives and non governmental organizations, as well as responses from Governments, to relevant United Nations human rights mechanisms, specialized agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system, with a view to their effectively addressing minority situations within their respective fields of competence, as laid down in article 9 of the United Nations Minorities Declaration

Where there is a large linguistic minority within the country, the language of the minority is sometimes also an official language of the State concerned.

On 20 October 2003, the State party informed the Committee that the Ministry on Human and Minority Rights was still in the process of collecting data from the relevant authorities with a view to responding on the merits of the complaint.

He explained that the existence of the minority was not denied, but rather that it was misleading to identify the Muslim minority as being only Turkish.

Inter minority contacts make it possible for persons belonging to minorities to share experience and information and to develop a common minority platform within the State.

Also relevant will be whether it is a long established minority or a new minority composed of recent immigrants, whether or not they have obtained citizenship.

This information is of particular interest to minority shareholders.

The Batwa minority remains marginalized within the Burundian society.

Others apparently a minority have ruled to the contrary.