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Protecting minority rights
Synonyms:
Providing civil protection for minorities
Showing solidarity with minorities
Broader:
Practising solidarity
Protecting human rights
Promoting spirit of solidarity
Responding to minority concerns
Narrower:
Securing minority equality
Defending loyal opposition
Protecting rights of sexual minorities
Reducing discrimination against minorities
Protecting threatened and vulnerable minorities
Providing legal recognition of minority opinion
Providing for unhindered mobility of minorities
Promoting welfare of persons belonging to minorities
Incorporating minority factions into decision making
Constrains:
Denying rights to minorities
Facilitates:
Preserving ethnicity
Ensuring social participation
Translating minority languages
Facilitated by:
Using force
Communicating minority concern
Romanticizing indigenous cultures
Problems:
Denial of education to minorities
Denial of rights of ethnic minorities
Insufficient minority culture support
Underprivileged religious minorities
Violation of the rights of sexual minorities
Values:
Rights
Protection
Solidarity
Overprotectiveness
Organizations:
Service civil international
United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service
Minority Rights Group International
UNITED for Intercultural Action - European Network Against Nationalism, Racism, Fascism and in Support of Migrants and Refugees
References:
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Minority Rights: problems, parameters, and patterns in the CSCE context (1991)
Subjects:
Society
→
Minority, indigenous groups
Societal Problems
→
Protection
Government
→
Civil
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals: