Minorities in a sentence

Although there is no law preventing religious minorities from getting educated in public schools, there are special schools for religious minorities so that they can have more freedom in teaching their religious lessons.

If minorities are generalized as being poor and defenseless, are the police being opportunistic by abusing minorities?

Trump’s exclusive rhetoric towards minorities in recent years is argued to have led to the ostracism of immigrants, women, and other minorities, causing an uproar in the Democratic party.

By creating an additional layer of privilege, this time ethnic, indirect rule fragmented the racially conscious majority into so many ethnic minorities, in every part of the country setting ethnic majorities against ethnic minorities.

Obviously, Bangladesh, former East Pakistan where minorities especially Hindus were crushed to death in 1971 by the Pakistani Army, with 10% religious minorities is at least better than Pakistan and Afghanistan.

This new law is made on the premise that the non-Muslim minorities of our neighbours Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh face State persecution, though, in reality, Muslim minorities too face atrocities in these countries.

This shows that when countries safeguard the rights of their minorities, they also safeguard, as a happy side effect, the rights and economic wellbeing of their majorities, or other minorities within the majority.

After all he wrote, “All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities.

Hatred of foreigners and minorities runs rampant worldwide and we are hearing an increasing chorus of calls against Jews, Muslims, refugees, as well as against other minorities.

However, there was no clear policy for minorities from Afghanistan and they were dealt on a case-to-case basis, said officials, adding that minorities from Afghanistan include Sikhs and non-Muslims who have been subjected to religious persecution.

Hyderabad: Minorities Rights Foundation has appealed to the TRS Government and Chief Minister KCR to stop ‘fake promises to the minorities and do justice to the people of Telangana who are running madarsas with modern education’.

Putin criticized for saying Jews, minorities may have meddled in U.S. voteMarch 12 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing criticism over comments suggesting Jews and other minorities may have meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) is set to write to the government, seeking Constitutional status so that it can do its job of protecting the rights of minorities better.

The state government was violating Article 29 (protection of interests of minorities) and Article 30 (right of minorities to establish and administer educational institutions) under the Constitution, he has alleged.

His research found that when minorities are a very small percentage the cost of discrimination mainly falls on the minorities.

However, when minorities represent a larger percentage of society, the cost of discrimination falls on both the minorities and the majority.

In 2013, Pew classified 30% of countries as having restrictions that tend to target religious minorities, and 61% of countries have social hostilities that tend to target religious minorities.

Nation states are responsible for some of the worst historical examples of violence against minorities: minorities not considered part of the nation.

The most noticeable trend in the past couple of decades is the convergence of birth rates between minorities (including Muslim minorities) and the Russian majority.

A bill on promoting the understanding of sexual minorities was abandoned in 2021 over the phrasing “discrimination is unacceptable,” with conservative lawmakers claiming the scope of discrimination was unclear.