• BEIJING- China accepts international norms for protecting rights of ethnic minorities and has drafted preferential laws and policies to safeguard their rights and boost their welfare, according to an official at the 4th Beijing Forum on Human Rights that opened Wednesday. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • He said equality and freedom from discrimination form the basic principles for rights protection of ethnic minorities in the West. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Some countries including the United States also laid out favorable policies for ethnic minorities, but the scale and degree of these policies are not comparable to China's. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • In China it is easier for ethnic minority students to attend university, ethnic minorities families are exempted from the one-child birth planning policy, and legislatures reserve a set proportion of seats for ethnic minority representatives, the official said. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Wang said rights of China's ethnic minorities are better protected by law because China's tradition emphasizes collective rights more than individual rights compared with the U.S. and other Western countries. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Official repression of the freedoms of speech, religion, movement, association, and assembly of Tibetans in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Tibetan areas and of Uighurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang worsened and was more severe than in other areas of the country. (state.gov)
  • it transversally safeguards the rights of ethnic minorities, integrates women and gender rights, and includes commitments geared towards resolving the issue of illicit drugs. (wola.org)
  • The result of these efforts was Chapter 6.2, or the Ethnic Chapter, which safeguards the rights of ethnic minorities transversally throughout the accord by guaranteeing their right to prior, free and informed consent on norms, laws, and plans that affect their communities. (wola.org)
  • Another victory was the creation of the Special High Instance for Ethnic Peoples ( Instancia Especial de Alto Nivel con Pueblos Étnicos ), the body ensuring that ethnic minorities have representation and a voice before the commission responsible for verifying the peace agreement is fully implemented. (wola.org)
  • After the Ethnic Chapter was agreed upon, the Santos administration's relationship with ethnic minorities deepened. (wola.org)
  • At present, China has 5 minority autonomous regions, 30 minority autonomous prefectures, 120 minority autonomous counties, and some other places where ethnic minorities live in concentrated communities. (topchinatravel.com)
  • Muslim Uygurs make up Xinjiang's largest ethnic population (although several other minorities reside there as well). (berkshirepublishing.com)
  • But in the northern, largely Kurdish region of Rojava, it is also the scene of a profoundly democratic and humanist revolution, which places the rights of ethnic minorities and women's liberation at its centre. (greenleft.org.au)
  • There was a growing danger Rojava would become a battleground between opposing forces hostile to Kurds and other ethnic minorities. (greenleft.org.au)
  • China's five autonomous regions - Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Tibet, Ningxia and Xinjiang - host the majority of population of the ethnic minorities. (asiaone.com)
  • In addition to the Han majority, the Chinese government recognizes 55 peoples of ethnic minorities. (iwgia.org)
  • According to the latest government data from the 2010 national census, the population of ethnic minorities stands at 111,964,901 people or 8.4% of the country's total population. (iwgia.org)
  • The main economic and social policies for people belonging to ethnic minorities in China are covered by the National Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) which emphasizes economic development to address the many complicated issues and different ethnic cultures of minorities in China. (iwgia.org)
  • Ningxia, one of China's five ethnic minorities autonomous regions, was founded in 1958. (discoverchinatours.com)
  • 11%-14% report that they are racial or ethnic minorities where they live. (lu.se)
  • Situated in western China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region borders Shannxi to the east, Inner Mongolia to the west and north, Gansu to the south, is an important transit hub between central plain and vast western regions of China. (topchinatravel.com)
  • Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, established on October 25th, 1958, is bordered by Inner Mongolia to the north and west, Shaanxi to the east and Gansu to the south. (discoverchinatours.com)
  • Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in western Xinjiang, China, bordering Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Southern Xinjiang Administrative Office of the People's Republic of China established the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Region on 14 July 1954. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Kirgiz ethnic minority, with a population of 143,500, finds 80 per cent of its inhabitants in the Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in the southwestern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (wikipedia.org)
  • The five autonomous regions include Tibet autonomous region, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and Inner Mongolia autonomous region. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • During the year the government significantly intensified its campaign of mass detention of members of Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang). (state.gov)
  • Researchers in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have collected and compiled 384 books in Todo bichig, a writing system used by Mongolian tribes in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). (xinhuanet.com)
  • About 6.5 million ethnic Mongolians live in eight Chinese provinces and regions, including Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Gansu, Xinjiang and Qinghai. (xinhuanet.com)
  • The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang for short) is located in northwest China. (china.org.cn)
  • After the People's Republic of China was founded, people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang gained the freedom of religious belief. (china.org.cn)
  • The central government and local governments at all levels of Xinjiang have fully implemented the system of regional ethnic autonomy and the policy on the freedom of religious belief, and constantly improved laws and regulations on the administration of religious affairs. (china.org.cn)
  • Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2 (or 16% of China's total land area). (topchinatravel.com)
  • Tibet borders Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on the north, with Qinghai and Sichuan lie to the northeast and east, has a short border with Yunnan province to the southeast. (topchinatravel.com)
  • Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the largest political unit in China but also one of the least populated. (berkshirepublishing.com)
  • Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the largest political unit in China, covering 1.6 million square kilometers: slightly smaller than Iran. (berkshirepublishing.com)
  • This population figure is all the more noteworthy because, since 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party took over the governance of Xinjiang, central authorities have had a policy of settling Han (ethnic Chinese) in the region in an attempt to solidify their rule. (berkshirepublishing.com)
  • Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is to be a central element of China's Developing the West program, which was announced by Premier Jiang Zemin in 2000. (berkshirepublishing.com)
  • Although in some ethnic minority regions the livelihoods of people have improved thanks to the government's economic stimulus programs, ethnic minority peoples are still subjected to oppression and discriminatory policies, and in Xinjiang Uyghur, Tibet continues Political unrest and cultural conflicts. (iwgia.org)
  • Graduates visit a booth during a job fair organized by Hotan Teachers College, Hotan prefecture, in the southern part of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on April 29. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • The 21-year-old from Northwest China's Gansu province wanted to become a teacher in Hotan prefecture in the southern part of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Data show that differences in HHV-8 prevalence vary con- siderably among different ethnic groups and geographic re- conducted in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (cdc.gov)
  • Among IVDUs, the Program on HIV/AIDS, and the World Health Organiza- prevalence was 34.3% (95% CI 28.3-40.3) in Zhejiang and tion estimate that 320,000 HIV/AIDS cases have been 29.6% (95% CI 25.3-33.9) in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous reported in China ( 12 ). (cdc.gov)
  • 1,169 Kazak, 200 Khalkas, 173 Hue, and 429 other) analysis on the basis of available data for HHV-8 epidemi- conducted in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region ology from mainland China to have a better understanding were analyzed for association of ethnicity with HHV-8 of the prevalence, variation, and factors associated with its prevalence (online Technical Appendix Figure, panel A). transmission. (cdc.gov)
  • There are five autonomous regions, 30 autonomous prefectures and 120 autonomous counties in China. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Gannan and Linxia autonomous prefectures are the gathering places for Tibetan, Hui, Dongxiang, Baoan and Sala ethnic groups. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Gannan and Linxia autonomous prefectures are well-known for their folk customs, including the Langshan Festival, flower-picking festival in the Gannan autonomous prefecture, and the wedding and eating customs of Dongxiang and Baoan ethnic groups. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • He said one of China's core ethnic policies is to bolster economic development of ethnic minority regions to realize the equal prosperity of all ethnic groups in China. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • But his drive to open up Ethiopia's authoritarian one-party state has also unleashed ethnic violence as different groups and regions jostle for power and resources. (ibtimes.com)
  • Kurdish and other ethnic rebels might be able to set up autonomous regions, some of them possibly under Soviet influence. (danielpipes.org)
  • It includes the establishment of ethnic autonomous regions, the establishment of their own local administrative government and the right to practice their own language and culture. (iwgia.org)
  • Autonomous ethnic regions account for approximately 60% of China's total area. (iwgia.org)
  • Most mother tongue teaching in ethnic minority regions in China has been marginalized due to the primacy of teaching the Chinese language. (iwgia.org)
  • The language and education policy focus on raising the literacy rate of Putonghua (standard Chinese) in rural communities and ethnic minority regions. (iwgia.org)
  • Autonomous ethnic regions of Inner Mongolia. (iwgia.org)
  • Furthermore, analyses should carefully examine subpopulations, including AI/ANs, who have high alcohol-related mortality rates and may live in autonomous regions where policies may have poor penetration (3,12). (cdc.gov)
  • Over 92 per cent of China's population are Han Chinese, but often forgotten is that the remaining 8 per cent of the population comprises 55 ethnic minority groups. (asiaone.com)
  • At China's recent National Day celebrations in Oct 2015, President Xi Jinping said that all people of the various ethnic groups have created the People's Republic of China, China Daily reported. (asiaone.com)
  • Each of China's ethnic groups has its own unique fashion and customs that is beautiful in its own ways. (asiaone.com)
  • His research focuses on the socio-legal aspects of China's ethnic policies, religious freedoms, and the rule of law. (lu.se)
  • Ethnic Tibetan autonomous entities set up by the People's Republic of China. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The Law of the People's Republic of China on Regional National Autonomy is an important basis for the governance of ethnic minority peoples. (iwgia.org)
  • The People's Republic of China (PRC or China) officially proclaims itself to be a unified country with a diverse ethnic make-up and all nationalities equal in the Constitution. (iwgia.org)
  • The International Campaign for Tibet called today for continued sanctions against Chinese official Wang Junzheng following his appointment as the top Communist Party of China leader in the Tibet Autonomous Region. (savetibet.org)
  • China announced today Wang's appointment as the party secretary in the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee, replacing Wu Yingjie. (savetibet.org)
  • Wang Junzheng's appointment as head of the Tibet Autonomous Region Party Committee indicates that the Chinese authorities intend to continue using an iron fist to control the Tibetan people," said ICT, an advocacy group with offices in Washington, DC and Europe. (savetibet.org)
  • It is quite telling that China has never appointed a Tibetan to this most powerful post in the Tibet Autonomous Region since the occupation of Tibet began. (savetibet.org)
  • The Tibet Autonomous Region spans about half of Tibet, a historically independent country that China has brutally occupied for more than six decades since forcing the Dalai Lama into exile. (savetibet.org)
  • Situated in the southwest of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China, Tibet Autonomous Region is a province-level autonomous region that was established in 1965. (topchinatravel.com)
  • X injiang Uygur Autonomous Region, located in northwestern China, is bordered by Russia to the north, Mongolia to the northeast, the Chinese provinces of Gansu and Qinghai to the east, Tibet (Xizang) Autonomous Region to the southeast, Afghanistan and India to the south and southwest, and Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan to the west. (berkshirepublishing.com)
  • At present, Ethiopia is partitioned into nine semi-autonomous regional states -- with the Sidama voting for a potential tenth. (ibtimes.com)
  • and take physical actions ( semi-autonomous and autonomous systems ). (cdc.gov)
  • In addition, the conflict over the expropriation of land and the forced relocation of inhabitants continues to be a challenge for many Indigenous Peoples in the Autonomous Region of Inner Mongolia. (iwgia.org)
  • 4 Department of Oncology, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Ethnic Hospital (i.e. (frontiersin.org)
  • Ma Biao was appointed acting chairman of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (chinavitae.com)
  • Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is located in southern China, with Nanning as its provincial capital city. (topchinatravel.com)
  • The Uyghurs are the largest ethnic group in Kizilsu, consisting of nearly two-thirds of the population. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some of the more well-known ethnic minority groups include the Zhuangs, the Miao, the Uyghurs, the Manchus and the Mongols. (asiaone.com)
  • Over the past three years, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has digitized and published 120 Mongolian classics. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Inner Mongolia Minority Autonomous Region is the first minority autonomous region established in 1947, with Hohhot as its provincial capital. (topchinatravel.com)
  • The region's largest ethnic group continues to be the Muslim Uygurs, although several other minority nationalities, including Uzbeks, Kazakhs, and Tajiks, also have sizable populations. (berkshirepublishing.com)
  • The Chechens and their western neighbors the Ingush are distinct ethnic groups with distinct languages, but so closely related and so similar that it is convenient to describe them together. (hartford-hwp.com)
  • This diversity testifies to millennia of generally peaceable relations among autonomous ethnic groups. (hartford-hwp.com)
  • Various other ethnic groups, such as different indigenous population mostly situated in the Borneo region and Eurasian and migrant workers make up the remaining of population. (ipcs.org)
  • Till the mid twentieth century, there were negligible ethnic and religious tensions between Malays (bumiputeras) and other migrant groups. (ipcs.org)
  • The riots not only exposed the existing fissures within Malaysian society but it also set the tone for future acrimony between the ethnic-religious groups. (ipcs.org)
  • At its core, this innovative approach to peace is largely due to the fact that multiple delegations of victims, women's groups, and ethnic minority representatives met multiple times with the negotiating parties. (wola.org)
  • Shamanism still has considerable influence among some ethnic groups. (topchinatravel.com)
  • It is home to a number of different ethnic groups including the Tibetan, Han, Hui, Monba and Lhoba plus small groups of Sherpa and Cheng people. (topchinatravel.com)
  • Here is a look at the traditional costumes worn by beauties from all 56 ethnic groups in China. (asiaone.com)
  • China proclaims itself as a unified country with a diverse ethnic composition, and all ethnic groups are considered equal in the Constitution. (iwgia.org)
  • There are still ethnic groups not recognized in China, totalling 640,101 people. (iwgia.org)
  • The "unidentified ethnic groups" in China are included in the "minority nationalities" population, numbering 836,488 persons. (iwgia.org)
  • China has 56 ethnic groups. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • The autonomous region encourages ethnic groups to study Mandarin to enhance mutual understanding and open up career opportunities. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • With the rise of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey, as a nation state, was created from a mosaic of ethnic and/or religious groups. (lu.se)
  • Saharawi ethnic simply an autonomous, individual choice, groups, characterized by the Hassaniyya but is mediated by cultural factors. (who.int)
  • 18.5 kg/m2), normal weight stood, especially in some ethnic groups. (who.int)
  • We compared groups according to their ethnic and religious self-identification, and also to a social-economic situation. (bvsalud.org)
  • The autonomous region was reorganised as an autonomous prefecture in February 1955. (wikipedia.org)
  • For thousands of years it has been a multi-ethnic region of multiple religions. (china.org.cn)
  • The abbreviation of the province is "桂" (Gui), which comes from the city of Guilin, the former capital, center of much of Guangxi's culture, politics, and history, and currently a major city in the autonomous region. (topchinatravel.com)
  • By 1988 the region sought to reunite with Armenia, which led to ethnic cleansing and pogroms, resulting in a 1991 referendum which saw 99% of residents in favor of Independence, instigating invasion by Azerbaijan. (pravda.ru)
  • Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday praised the conduct of a referendum in the ethnic Sidama region, that many expect will approve the creation of a new federal state. (ibtimes.com)
  • Vojvodina is an autonomous region in Yugoslavia north of the Danube River. (d-n-i.net)
  • The attached report from the STRATFOR, Inc. indicates that armed Serbian refugees, fleeing the bombing or Kosovo, are increasing ethnic tensions in this region. (d-n-i.net)
  • As of 2014, Russia has four autonomous okrugs of its 85 federal subjects. (wikipedia.org)
  • It administrates 2 prefecture level cities, 6 districts, 5 autonomous counties and 4 county-level administrative units. (topchinatravel.com)
  • According to the constitution of the USSR , in case of a union republic voting on leaving the Soviet Union, autonomous republics , autonomous oblasts and autonomous okrugs had the right, by means of a referendum , to independently resolve whether they will stay in the USSR or leave with the seceding union republic , as well as to raise the issue of their state-legal status. (wikipedia.org)
  • The 1977 Soviet Constitution changed the term "national okrugs" to "autonomous okrugs" in order to emphasize that they were indeed autonomies and not simply another type of administrative and territorial division. (wikipedia.org)
  • While the 1977 Constitution stipulated that the autonomous okrugs were subordinated to the oblasts and krais , this clause was revised on December 15, 1990, when it was specified that autonomous okrugs were subordinated directly to the Russian SFSR , although they still could stay in the jurisdiction of a krai or an oblast to which they were subordinated before. (wikipedia.org)
  • The constitution requires the government to organise a referendum for any ethnic group that wants to form a new entity. (ibtimes.com)
  • more correctly referred to as " autonomous districts " or " autonomous areas ") are a type of federal subject of the Russian Federation and simultaneously an administrative division type of some federal subjects. (wikipedia.org)
  • Guizhou Province Sandu Shui Ethnic Autonomous Country Jiuqian Distllery Co., Ltd. is headquartered in China Guizhou Sheng. (patsnap.com)
  • Wang Ping, vice director of the policy and regulation department of State Ethnic Affairs Commission, said in an article filed with the two-day forum that China protects the equal rights of minority individuals as well as the collective rights of each minority group. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • The Tibetans are one of the largest of 56 nationalities officially recognized by China to constitute the Zhonghua Minzu or Chinese nation, although in anthropological terms, they could be regarded as comprising more than one ethnic group. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Five studies, including 4,637 persons of Han ethnic- tunistic infection, have not been well described for China. (cdc.gov)
  • Imagining and regulating ethnic and religious diversity in Turkey. (mpg.de)
  • The revolution in Rojava is an explicitly multi-ethnic revolution. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Several studies have indicated were used to identify women as belonging that there is a strong association between to the Saharawi ethnic group: their come selfeperceived weight status and weight munication skills in Hassaniyya dialects, control behaviour [ 3,4 ]. (who.int)
  • All participants were intere in many developing world communities, viewed faceetoeface by an interviewer who fatness is culturally associated with beauty, belonged to this Saharawi ethnic group. (who.int)
  • So, while the FR in family situations were associated with an indifference/hostility towards the MGR, the FR as autonomous or ethnically recognized individuais were dissociated, mainly when their own group was a minority, no matter what the social-economic situation. (bvsalud.org)
  • 克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州历史沿革 [Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture Historical Development] (in Simplified (wikipedia.org)
  • Authorities were reported to have arbitrarily detained 800,000 to possibly more than two million Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other Muslims in internment camps designed to erase religious and ethnic identities. (state.gov)
  • He was a non-residential post-doctoral research fellow with the University of Amsterdam (2009-2012), and a guest researcher in-residence at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen (2012-2013). (mpg.de)
  • In Malaysia the ethnic and religious affiliations are overlapping. (ipcs.org)
  • As well as the growing ethnic and religious chauvinism of a largely Sunni and Arab opposition becoming defined as Sunni and Arab, this caused the Kurdish movement to stay aloof from the fractious armed opposition. (greenleft.org.au)
  • In the federation of autonomous ethnic-religious communities that is called Lebanon, the Shi'ites were the most downtrodden and powerless. (antiwar.com)
  • The programme is conducted in a form that allows each individual to develop independently regardless of gender, ethnic or social background, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and/or disa- bility. (lu.se)
  • Human rights defenders emphasize increasing tension and widening the cracks in the relationship between the Han Chinese majority and ethnic minority peoples. (iwgia.org)
  • Future studies should identify underlying reasons for racial/ethnic and regional differences in this relationship. (cdc.gov)
  • and tacos and burritos have become so ubiquitously "American," most people don't even consider them ethnic. (manufacturing.net)
  • People consider them American, not ethnic. (manufacturing.net)
  • It is renowned for its gorgeous natural beauty and plain ethnic custom and profound culture. (topchinatravel.com)
  • After the government changed from Santos to Duque, the relationship reverted back to one of mistrust and deprioritization of ethnic minority issues. (wola.org)
  • Despite these early victories, the change in government from Santos to Duque has presented new challenges for ethnic and indigenous communities. (wola.org)
  • If approved, the new state would be largely based on ethnic divisions, handing tax-raising powers and control over schools, police, health and other services to the Sidamas, who would be in the majority in the state. (ibtimes.com)
  • visualizing technology portfolio of hot application areas and blank areas for Guizhou Province Sandu Shui Ethnic Autonomous Country Jiuqian Distllery Co., Ltd. (patsnap.com)
  • However, post accords, ethnic communities had to once again fight for inclusion into the implementation planning process . (wola.org)
  • During the special legislative procedure-known as the "fast track" process-which saw the development of an Implementation Framework Plan, ethnic communities were able to get 98 ethnic indicators into the framework for the peace agreement. (wola.org)
  • Europeans seek inclusive space - being part of extended communities, including family, kin, ethnic and class affiliation. (blogspot.com)
  • While the area had autonomous status…come on…we all know it was more Divide-to-Conquer plotting. (pravda.ru)
  • The summit was a strange blend of ethnic mobilisation and past rhetoric folded into a future vision for Afrikaners as an autonomous rather than independent cultural grouping. (dailymaverick.co.za)