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The vast majority of Iraqi Kurds are Sunni Muslims, with Shia and Christian minorities. (wikipedia.org)
Religious minorities, which include the Sunnite sect of Islam, Christian, Jews, Zoroastrians and Baha'is compromised about 10% of the population after the Iranian revolution, most of them Sunnite Muslims who also suffer from discrimination as national minorities. (iranpresswatch.org)
The Bill of Retribution, a criminal law which mandates stoning, the amputation of limbs and the gouging out of eyes as punishment, regards the lives of religious minorities as worth half those of Muslims. (iranpresswatch.org)
Non-Muslims face serious issues of discrimination simply because of their religious beliefs. (minorityrights.org)
The Indian authorities are increasingly adopting discriminatory policies against religious minorities, especially Muslims, and their policy toward the Rohingya appears to reflect that bigotry," she said. (aljazeera.com)
Since Modi was elected there have been a drastic increase in religiously motivated assaults, forceful conversions, riots, discrimination, vandalism all to restrict minorities such as Sikhs, Muslims and Christians from practising their own religion. (change.org)
It also included language that seemed prejudiced to religious minorities, assumingly Christians instead of Muslims. (standnow.org)
Human rights groups say that the ruling junta in Myanmar (Burma) is increasingly persecuting religious minorities, particularly Christians and Muslims. (dw.com)
Ethnic and religious minorities, like members of the Hazara ethnic group and Shiite Muslims, have fared poorly under Taliban rule. (freedomhouse.org)
Despite the lack of data, some groups feel they are being discriminated against, notably Muslims, "black" French and Roma populations. (independent.co.uk)
The level of discrimination against Muslims or other groups is hard to judge in reality, since, these are invisible in the statistics and official rhetoric of the country. (independent.co.uk)
Violent unrest has erupted across India over a contentious new citizenship law that offers immunity to undocumented immigrants from half a dozen religious faiths but excludes Muslims. (scientologyreligion.org)
There was a further deterioration of the extremely poor status of respect for religious freedom during the reporting period, most notably for Baha'is and Sufi Muslims. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Government actions and rhetoric created a threatening atmosphere for nearly all religious minorities, especially Baha'is and Sufi Muslims. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Indeed, compared with many populations Pew Research Center previously has surveyed - from the United States to Latin America to sub-Saharan Africa to Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa - Central and Eastern Europeans display relatively low levels of religious observance. (pewresearch.org)
Religious minorities face numerous restrictions and prohibitions, with surveillance or even detention of persons involved in radical Islam, non-Muslims involved in proselytising, and those from religious groups that did not belong to the official religion. (factsanddetails.com)
By closing down all the restaurants and food stores, it not only infringes upon the rights of various religious minorities in Pakistan, but also on those Muslims who do not want to comply with the ordinance. (investigativeproject.org)
Police in eastern Pakistan arrested 129 Muslims overnight after a Muslim mob angered over an alleged desecration of the Quran attacked churches and homes of minority Christians, prompting authorities to summon soldiers to restore order, officials said. (8newsnow.com)
JARANWALA, Pakistan (AP) - Police arrested 129 Muslims after a mob angered by an alleged Quran desecration attacked a dozen churches and nearly two dozen homes of minority Christians, officials said Thursday. (8newsnow.com)
It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on the crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. (lu.se)

More than 40 percent of Christians are believed to have emigrated from Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein and Iraq was now seeing a mass migration of the Yazidi religious minority to Europe, said Mirzan Hassan Dinnayi, a Kurdish Yazidi who was Talabani's adviser on minorities in the first half of 2005, and now lives in Germany. (jpost.com)
Additionally, it replaced the complete halt to Syrian refugee entry with a 120-day freeze, exempted permanent residents and visa holders, and dropped language offering preferential status to persecuted religious minorities, namingly Christians. (standnow.org)
In 2008, Christians in Kandhamal in Orissa and Mangalore in Karnataka suffered violence at the hands of Hindu nationalist groups. (twocircles.net)
Christians in Western Europe, for example, have been described as "believing without belonging," a phrase coined by sociologist Grace Davie in her 1994 religious profile of Great Britain, where, she noted, widespread belief in God coexists with largely empty churches and low participation in religious institutions. (pewresearch.org)

it expressed serious concern about the continued discrimination against religious minorities by the Government. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)

So in the face of religious persecution, Yazidis have concentrated in strongholds located in remote mountain regions. (ibtimes.com)
Since 2017, India has deported 16 Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar, according to rights groups, in violation of the principle of non-refoulment - which states that refugees should not be deported to places where they may face persecution. (aljazeera.com)
The Hazaras-an ethnic and religious minority constituting an estimated 20 percent of Afghanistan's population-have faced discrimination and persecution in Afghanistan for over a century and particularly during the last period of Taliban rule in the 1990s. (ushmm.org)

As religion is so closely connected to ethnicity and nationalism in Malaysia, discrimination is not just on racial grounds but on religious as well. (minorityrights.org)
Ten years ago University of Minnesota sociologists conducted research showing that, among a long list of racial and religious minority groups, atheists were the most disliked group of people in the United States. (scienceblog.com)
Minority Populations and Rural Communities provides funding to address COVID-19 and advance health equity (e.g., through strategies, interventions, and services that consider systemic barriers and potentially discriminatory practices that have put certain groups at higher risk for diseases like COVID-19) in racial and ethnic minority groups and racial populations within state, local, US territorial, and freely associated state health jurisdictions. (cdc.gov)
2021 (P.L. 116-260, Section 2, Division M) provided funding for strategies to improve testing capabilities and other COVID-19 response activities in populations that are disproportionately affected and underserved, including racial and ethnic minority groups and people living in rural communities. (cdc.gov)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines health disparities as, "preventable differences in the burden, disease, injury, violence, or in opportunities to achieve optimal health experienced by socially disadvantaged racial, ethnic, and other population groups and communities. (kff.org)
The French state's policy rejects any references to national, racial, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities. (independent.co.uk)
Legally, the constitutional principle of equality has been interpreted as prohibiting the government from collecting data or statistics on the racial, ethnic or religious backgrounds of its citizens, in any context. (independent.co.uk)
This means for example that the socioeconomic status of groups across any indicators based on racial, ethnic, religious or other grounds is unknown, and that the national census does not include any questions about race or ethnicity. (independent.co.uk)
Aktürk Sener, "Comparative Politics of Exclusion in Europe and the Americas: Religious, Sectarian, and Racial Boundary Making since the Reformation", Comparative politics 52, no. 4 (July 2020): 715. (lu.se)
Participants expressed the importance of knowledge as a precursor to changing attitudes and the 6 knowledge components related to knowledge and awareness of values, beliefs and norms of different ethnic, racial and cultural groups. (who.int)
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the rights of ethno-cultural, religious, and linguistic minorities or other groups in situation of vulnerability. (lu.se)

Former senator Farhatullah Babar said the rights of minorities have been shrinking, and intolerance toward them by the state and by society increasing, despite constitutional guarantees, religious injunctions and international covenants that Pakistan has signed in this regard. (dawn.com)
When the state starts legislating on religious grounds, it creates an environment of intolerance toward religious minorities and legitimizes discrimination. (investigativeproject.org)

One group that has been witnessing the violation of its rights by the security forces and the judiciary in recent months is the Gonabadi Dervishes, several followers of which have been prevented from studying at the country's universities," said the petition. (iranhumanrights.org)
The NGO SOVA Center said that proposed amendments to the law regulating religion, pending at year end, might allow for arbitrary government interference among minority religious groups due to vague language prohibiting religious institutions from having connections with individuals the country's courts declared "undesirable" or "extremist. (state.gov)
Across our country's history - from the surveillance of the Separatists we now know as Pilgrims in 16th and 17th century England, to federal house raids and interrogations of early Mormons in the Utah Territory in the 19th century, to the 20th century surveillance of Jewish, Muslim, Quaker, and Sikh communities, to modern post-9/11 surveillance systems - government monitoring has long had a deep and disparate impact on American religious minorities. (georgetown.edu)

Suffering of India's minorities increases. (change.org)
India's several religious minorities weep alone when they are in pain. (twocircles.net)

The chain of events began when then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi sent the Army into the Golden Temple, holy to the Sikhs, to neutralize a group of armed extremists. (twocircles.net)
As many as 100 minority Sikhs and Hindus who want to escape Afghanistan are unable to do so. (scientologyreligion.org)
These concerns come amid heightened risks for other vulnerable groups, including ethnic and religious minorities such as Sufis and Sikhs , as well as women, human rights defenders, and journalists. (ushmm.org)

In November, 1979, the Assembly of Experts declared Judaism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism the only officially recognised minority religions, leaving the Baha'is without constitutional protection. (iranpresswatch.org)
Since the inception of the IRI, the Baha'is' religious centres and property have been confiscated and their shrines destroyed. (iranpresswatch.org)
Government-controlled media, including broadcasting and print, intensified negative campaigns against religious minorities - particularly the Baha'is - following the June 2005 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Non-traditional religious minorities face particular difficulties, with groups such as the Baha'is being banned. (factsanddetails.com)

ISLAMABAD: The National Interfaith Working Group established by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) held its inaugural meeting on Tuesday where it discussed the facilitation of interfaith dialogue and collective advocacy, awareness and action to protect the fundamental rights of religious minorities. (dawn.com)
They are people of this soil, no matter which religious they follow, as Pakistan is the homeland of people belonging to different religious beliefs," he said. (dawn.com)
Unfortunately, whenever we face pressure from extremist groups parties that claimed to be moderate, like the Pakistan Peoples Party, take a back-foot position and play a defensive role," she said. (dawn.com)
She said the space for minorities was shrinking in Pakistan. (dawn.com)
The release of Asia Bibi on May 8, 2019, has brought hope to the international religious community for greater tolerance of religious minorities in Pakistan. (scientologyreligion.org)
Tehreek Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility and sent a group photo of the seven militants who took part in the "operation" holding guns and bombs. (links.org.au)
The ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has long-term contacts with most of the religious fanatic groups and used them to win the 2013 general election. (links.org.au)
The Pakistan has state failed miserably to curb the rise of religious fundamentalism. (links.org.au)
Members of Christian groups and others demonstrate to condemn the attack on a Christian area and a burned church by angry Muslim mob, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. (8newsnow.com)

The militant Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility. (newstatesman.com)
The course notices the unique aspects of different groups in the MENA area, such as the Kurds, the Alawites, the Maronites, Shia and Sunni. (lu.se)

Minorities in Iraq include various ethnic and religious groups. (wikipedia.org)
The Turkmen/Turkoman minority mainly reside in northern and central Iraq, in the so-called Turkmeneli region - which is a political term used by the Turkmen/Turkoman to define the vast swath of territory in which they have historically had a dominant population. (wikipedia.org)
Who Are the Yazidis, the Persecuted Religious Minority in Iraq? (ibtimes.com)
Religious extremism is the biggest threat facing minorities in Iraq today and could ultimately see the war-torn country emptied of these populations, a former adviser to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. (jpost.com)
The biggest danger for them is Islamic religious extremism in Iraq and the 'Islamization' of the street - this is what scares religious minority communities," Dinnayi said in an interview, before giving a lecture at the Hebrew University's Harry S. Truman Center for the Advancement of Peace. (jpost.com)
The worst-case scenario, he said, was "that the displacement that is happening will empty Iraq of its minority communities. (jpost.com)
In addition, one Kurdish official in northern Iraq has proposed establishing a "safe zone" in the Nineveh Plain for the Christian minority. (jpost.com)
Meanwhile, most of the minority members who suffered from "Arabization" measures imposed by Saddam Hussein's regime in northern Iraq, including displacement, forced relocation and confiscation of property, had still not been compensated, said attorney Said Pirmurat, a specialist in Iraqi criminal law who also lectured at the Truman Center on Tuesday. (jpost.com)
The Yazidi religious minority in Iraq is seeking to gain enough support in the Iraqi parliament for a draft law that provides support and rehabilitation for the community, particularly the female members who escaped Islamic State abduction. (voanews.com)
Saib Khidr, a Yazidi lawmaker and a member of the legal committee that drafted the law, told VOA the Yazidi community agreed the law needed to be more inclusive of other IS victims, particularly other minority groups in Iraq. (voanews.com)
Yazidis are an ethno-religious minority of about 550,000 people, mostly residing in Sinjar, in northern Iraq. (voanews.com)
Abdullah's organization is collecting evidence of IS crimes, and works with legislative, executive and judicial authorities in Iraq to find a way to properly address the IS attacks against Yazidis and other minorities. (voanews.com)

Zakareishvili said the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Roman Catholic Church, as well as Muslim and Jewish groups will receive 4.5 million laris ($2.53 million) in 2014. (rferl.org)
Later he said again, "The religious minorities, such as the non-Shiite Muslim population, are Iranians and must be respected. (iranpresswatch.org)
Some measures of the respondents' attitudes show that Muslim-Americans are as distrusted, and in some cases more distrusted, than the non-religious. (scienceblog.com)
Religious groups and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) reported authorities continued to investigate, detain, imprison, torture, and and/or physically abuse persons or seize their property because of their religious faith, including members of groups the government classified as extremist and banned, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Tablighi Jamaat, and followers of Muslim theologian Said Nursi. (state.gov)
Recent unofficial estimates provide larger numbers for non-Muslim minority groups. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
The largest non-Muslim minority was the Baha'i community, which had an estimated 300,000 to 350,000 adherents throughout the country. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Non-Malay and non-Muslim minorities continue to be subjected to unfavourable treatment by Brunei authorities. (factsanddetails.com)
Non-Muslim minorities are not permitted to hold public religious processions, and all schools, public and private, are also prohibited by the Ministry of Education from teaching of other religions, while Islam must be taught in all schools. (factsanddetails.com)
In a series of incidents in April, May, and June, militants attacked members of non-Muslim religious communities, causing hundreds of families to flee. (freedomhouse.org)
It is attained by answering the research questions of how they frame European integration in order to include the Jewish and Muslim groups in the project, and how their approaches diverge or align. (lu.se)
The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world. (lu.se)

These are human rights violations affecting people because of both their ethnic and religious identities. (minorityrights.org)
In March 2006 the U.N. General Assembly adopted Resolution 60/171 expressing serious concern about the continued discrimination and human rights violations against religious minorities by the Government. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)

Other religious minorities in the country include the Mandaeans, the Shabaks and a small number of Jews. (jpost.com)

For example, it would have granted a broad exemption to existing protections under the Affordable Care Act, authorizing employers and universities to use their religious beliefs to block employees' and students' health insurance coverage for contraception. (aclu-ms.org)
It would have authorized discrimination across a host of federal programs and services against same-sex couples and unmarried mothers based on religious beliefs. (aclu-ms.org)
At the ACLU, we fight every day to defend religious freedom , but religious beliefs cannot be used to discriminate against or harm others. (aclu-ms.org)
The human rights NGO Memorial identified 228 persons it said were persecuted for their religious beliefs or affiliation and whom it considered to be political prisoners, compared with 245 in 2019. (state.gov)
Reliable, verifiable data about religious beliefs and practices in the region's then-communist regimes is difficult, if not impossible, to find. (pewresearch.org)
According to Douglas Murray, it is difficult to define what it is that makes a group Europeans among such various peoples.1 As a result, it is an identity-building process that has caused conflict throughout Europe with contrasting perceptions of what the identity entails, for example in regard to religious beliefs. (lu.se)

The government has managed to pit Hindus against religious minorities as they promote and encourage hatred against these groups. (change.org)

Healthy People 2030 defines a health disparity, as "a particular type of health difference that is linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage," and that adversely affects groups of people who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health. (kff.org)
The Taliban, who promised a more enlightened approach to governance than what they demonstrated in the 1990s, have instead instituted old practices, systematically targeting women, minorities, and civil society. (freedomhouse.org)

The country could implode with clashes between ethnic groups. (asianews.it)

Religious groups said the government continued to use antiterrorism regulations to restrict religious freedom, including proselytizing and banning religious literature. (state.gov)
Certain religious organisations restrict their operations to a specific geographical area despite the fact that their aim presumably would be to transcend these boundaries. (lu.se)

Feb. 18, 2019-At tonight's meeting of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, SBC President J. D. Greear delivered an initial phase of recommendations from the Sexual Abuse Presidential Advisory Group. (erlc.com)
Announcement that the Presidential Advisory Group will issue additional updates at the 2019 SBC Annual Meeting. (erlc.com)
IS's physical caliphate was defeated in March 2019 after the terror group lost its last stronghold in eastern Syria. (voanews.com)

Fatima Atif, a representative of the Hazara community, said their community has not officially been declared a minority but is still suffering because of their faith. (dawn.com)
Most of the dead were Hazara Shias, an ethnic and religious minority. (newstatesman.com)
Over the past 11 months of Taliban rule, the Hazara community has faced repeated targeting by at least two distinct perpetrator groups: ISIS-KP and the Taliban. (ushmm.org)

The Yazidis are one of the world's smallest and oldest religious minorities. (ibtimes.com)
In the second half of the 19th century, Yazidis were targeted by the leaders ofKurdish principalities under Ottoman control, and subjected to brutalcampaigns of religious violence. (ibtimes.com)

nor were the minorities recognized as autonomous bodies, as the Committee had proposed, though they did grant them certain rights relating to language and culture, which - by their very nature - were group and not individual rights. (encyclopedia.com)

In Sinjar, Islamic State militants (formerly known as Isis) destroyed a Shiite shrine and demanded that the remaining population convert to their version of Islam, pay a religious tax or be executed. (ibtimes.com)
After the Sunnite sect of Islam, they are the largest of the religious minorities, numbering a half million. (iranpresswatch.org)
Malay' as an ethnicity is intrinsically linked to Islam, together with other criteria such as adhering to Malay culture (which arguably minorities also do) and having a Malay grandparent. (minorityrights.org)
The stringent laws on religious conversion involving Islam have a major impact in cases of inter-marriage. (minorityrights.org)
There was also Jamiat Ulemai Islam, the known political wing of one section of the religious fanatics. (links.org.au)

Days later, the Islamic State Khorasan Province militant group orchestrated the bombing of a Shiite mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif that killed at least 12. (freedomhouse.org)
Other entries cover major political movements, militant groups, and religious sects as well as terms from Islamic law, culture, and religion, key historical events, and important landmarks (such as Mecca and Medina). (lu.se)

Last month, word circulated that Trump was on the verge of signing an executive order that would have devastating consequences for LGBT people, members of minority faiths, women, and people seeking reproductive health care. (aclu-ms.org)
Jehovah's Witnesses reported workplace harassment of members again increased, and forced resignations continued at some of their workplaces when employers discovered their religious affiliation. (state.gov)
All religious groups must be registered, but registration is now restricted to those with at least 500 adult members. (christianitytoday.com)
There were indications that members of all religious minorities are emigrating at a higher rate. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
The memorandum of the Committee, dated May 10, 1919, but officially submitted on June 10, 1919, called upon the peace conference to include in the treaties with the new states, and those whose territory was to be considerably enlarged, specific provisions guaranteeing individual rights to the members of the minorities living in these countries, and collective national rights to each minority as a group (see *minority rights ). (encyclopedia.com)
Using a combination of archival studies, semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions among faculty members 3 major domains (knowledge, attitude and behaviour) and 21 components were identified to describe the cross-cultural competence of faculty members in medical schools. (who.int)

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said it is deeply concerned about the "harshly repressive new law. (christianitytoday.com)
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and Christian and religious freedom advocacy groups call for the release of two pastors detained by authorities in Cuba July 11 for joining widespread antigovernment demonstrations in the Caribbean nation. (scientologyreligion.org)
A July 17 report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) calls for the U.S. government to publicly censure Alexander Dvorkin for ongoing disinformation campaign against religious minorities. (scientologyreligion.org)
Since 1999 the Secretary of State has designated Iran as a 'Country of Particular Concern' (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act for its particularly egregious violations of religious freedom. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)

Throughout this period the Committee was active in safeguarding the rights granted to Jews in the minority treaties, in combating antisemitism, and in promoting the participation of Jews as Jews in the work of international nongovernmental organizations. (encyclopedia.com)

and other historically marginalized groups and communities. (stcloudstate.edu)
Nonetheless, the comeback of religion in a region once dominated by atheist regimes is striking - particularly in some historically Orthodox countries, where levels of religious affiliation have risen substantially in recent decades. (pewresearch.org)

Narendra Modi has caused nothing but hatred against religious minorities since he was elected as Prime Minister of India in 2014. (change.org)
Police and authorities in India are corrupt and when Hindu mobs shoot and stab minority groups as well as lynch them, the police either turn a blind eye or encourage the violence. (change.org)
The UN security council has the ability to impose sanctions, uphold the human rights of minority groups in India and stop the increasing harassment of these groups. (change.org)
I am also calling on citizens of the world as spreading awareness of what's going on in these countries as the government controls the mainstream media organizations in India and therefore there is a lot of biased media and false allegations against religious minority groups. (change.org)

Among them were the representatives of the Jewish National Assemblies, Councils, and Committees formed in most East and Southeast European Jewish communities after the war - the Jewish minorities whose fate was at stake. (encyclopedia.com)
The memorandum was drafted in general terms, referring to all minorities in the newly created or enlarged states, and was not restricted to Jewish minorities only. (encyclopedia.com)

It is under this "absolute" approach to equality and neutrality that the wearing of religious symbols has been prohibited. (independent.co.uk)

Increasingly now the courts are referring cases to Islamic, Sharia courts, which have a strict religious interpretation of the law as compared to the secular interpretation in national level courts. (minorityrights.org)
While several international groups and monitoring bodies have expressed concern about the increasingly dire crisis facing the Hazaras, the abuses have been underreported by global media. (ushmm.org)

The White House denied that it would issue the leaked version of the executive order, but it did not denounce the leaked executed order, leaving the door open to future attacks against LGBT people, people seeking reproductive health care, women, and religious minorities. (aclu-ms.org)
Survey data collected in 2014 shows that, compared to data collected in 2003, Americans have sharpened their negative views of atheists, despite an increase in people identifying as non-religious and an increase in public discussion of non-belief. (scienceblog.com)
Comparing the "religious nones," respondents had less negative views of people who say they have no religion, and feel more positively about those who are "spiritual but not religious. (scienceblog.com)
The survey was conducted by GFK Group, with just over 2,500 people participating. (scienceblog.com)
Make no mistake about it: these incidents, these crimes, this violence that is targeted against minority populations across our state is meant to intimidate, is meant to shut down, is meant to exclude entire groups and categories of people…" Lesser, a candidate for lieutenant governor, sued. (waterlooband.net)
A religious liberty newsletter that is a must-read for people of faith. (christianpost.com)
According to a major ethnography conducted last decade, for example, many people in China neither believe in a higher power nor identify with any particular religious faith, yet nevertheless go to Buddhist or Confucian temples to make offerings and partake in religious rituals. (pewresearch.org)
It particularly addresses how social and political developments affect different individuals and groups of people such as women, religious groups and ethnic minorities, workers, peasants and officials. (lu.se)

First, it means that no statistics exist regarding ethnic or religious discrimination, or discrimination on related grounds. (independent.co.uk)
The outreach tactics are tailored to reach women with less access to main social or professional networks, e.g. women with disabilities and women from ethnic or religious minority groups. (who.int)

Instead, it serves to make minorities, and the difficulties they face in French society, almost invisible. (independent.co.uk)

Ethnic and religious minority groups face harrowing violence. (freedomhouse.org)
The gender-intentional approach of the MMM program incorporates outreach and recruitment strategies that avoid reinforcing the marginalisation of some groups who face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination based on, for example, socio-economic status, location, ethnicity or disability. (who.int)

As a result, French authorities have rejected any form of targeted measures for ethnic, religious or linguistic groups. (independent.co.uk)

Mr Babar said attention should be given on setting up caucuses in parliament and in provincial assemblies to take up the causes of religious minorities, similar to the women's caucus in parliament. (dawn.com)

Mostafa Daneshjou , a formerly imprisoned lawyer and member of a Sufi religious order known as the Gonabadi Dervishes , has been expelled from university without explanation, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. (iranhumanrights.org)

The same group reported 29 incidents of religiously motivated vandalism. (state.gov)

In practise this has rendered minorities invisible and brought systemic forms of discrimination. (independent.co.uk)

Armed groups linked to the Afghan branch of the Islamic State (ISIS) have carried out bombings targeting ethnic Hazaras, Afghan Shias, Sufis, and others, killing and injuring hundreds. (hrw.org)
Islamic militants have reportedly executed 300 families from the minority Yazidi group. (ibtimes.com)
In an interview with United International on November 8, 1978, Ayatollah Khomeini said: "In an Islamic Republic, all religious minorities can freely celebrate all of their religious ceremonies and the Islamic government will protect them to the best of its ability. (iranpresswatch.org)
An Islamic scholar has urged the government of Nigeria to take "decisive action" against the activities of the terrorist group Boko Haram. (scientologyreligion.org)
Apart from creating and supporting jihadist groups, for decades the state and military with the financial and political assistance of imperial powers has indoctrinated millions with conservative Islamic ideology for the purpose of safeguarding its strategic interests. (links.org.au)
What emerges is a highly informative look at the religious, political, and social spheres of the modern Islamic world. (lu.se)

Despite their language and religious affiliations with the ethnic Malay majority, Kedayan are regarded by Bruneians as closer in status to the animist, interior tribal groups because of a number of similar cultural practices. (factsanddetails.com)

The course also covers dominating theories on ethnic and/or sectarian identity (primordialism, constructivism and instrumentalism), and applies these theories to arguments about the role of group identities in politics. (lu.se)

and, the collective rights accorded to minority groups. (bvsalud.org)

Also several other political parties who maintain regular contacts and links with religious extremists groups for their narrow political interests and subscribe to the same millenarian ideology of the jihadists. (links.org.au)

has increased for vulnerable groups, including ethnic and religious minorities. (ushmm.org)

The Yazidi is a Kurdish-speaking religious community who practice an ancient religion linked to Zoroastrianism. (ibtimes.com)
There should not be this many hate crimes and deaths and religious minorities should be free to practice religion as they choose. (change.org)
I've also broadened out a bit over the past few years into other areas and topic research projects, including the transitions to adulthood, religious belief and practice (or the lack thereof-thinking here of the paper Joe Gerteis, Penny Edgall and I did on atheists ), as well as immigration and the racialized incorporation of second and third generation immigrants into American society and Islamophobia . (thesocietypages.org)

While most of these communities live peacefully in Malaysia and are able to develop their lives and enjoy their rights, there remain a host of serious issues affecting minorities. (minorityrights.org)
Mirzan Dinnayi says 'Islamization' of the Iraqi street scares religious minority communities. (jpost.com)
This model is based on the idea that the state should interact with the individual only, not communities or groups, in order to give equal treatment to everyone. (independent.co.uk)
The impact on the minority communities has been the consolidation of a dangerous insularity. (twocircles.net)
In a situation so emotionally and psychologically fragile, the communities have turned inwards, closing their eyes and ears to happenings in their neighborhood to other minorities. (twocircles.net)
in minority communities, alcohol ads have been found to portray alcohol consumption as routine and normative, an entry point into "the good life," and a marker of individual success. (cdc.gov)

Many of them accept traditional gender segregation in the religious community, but struggle with prejudices from the greater society, according to researcher. (forskningsradet.no)
Rather, it arose out of our realization that, ultimately, it will take a strong and sustained effort by community groups to bring about real and lasting reform. (aclu.org)
Do they feel part of a congregation, spiritual community or religious group? (pewresearch.org)

A circular was issued at the end of the meeting that stated: "Apart from regular interaction with local and provincial stakeholders, including political representatives, the group will also carry out fact-finding exercises to monitor and promote freedom of religion and belief across the country, based on local realities and needs. (dawn.com)
These attitudes are strongly driven by a belief that religiosity is central for civic virtue, that societal standards of right and wrong should be rooted in historic religious traditions, and that Christianity underpins American identity. (scienceblog.com)
The constitution provides for freedom of religion, equal rights irrespective of religious belief, and the right to worship and profess one's religion. (state.gov)

On April 22, 2007, 24 Yazidi workers were killed in Mosul by a group of gunmen. (jpost.com)

A year after the deadly 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris on 13 November and France is still grappling with its relationship with its minorities. (independent.co.uk)

The Iraqi Turkmen are the third largest ethnic group in the country, after the Arabs and Kurds. (wikipedia.org)
While the Iraqi constitution protects the rights of all its citizens, "nothing from the constitution until now has been implemented regarding minorities," he said. (jpost.com)
With the establishment of a special governmental department for Yazidi affairs, the bill would represent the first recognition in Iraqi history of the minority as a distinct group. (voanews.com)

A select number of groups (business, labor, NGOs) interact with government to make policy. (powershow.com)

The law states government officials may prohibit the activity of a religious association for violating public order or engaging in "extremist activity. (state.gov)

According to the IRI's Constitution, religious minorities are not allowed to hold high-ranking government jobs. (iranpresswatch.org)
Under the Constitution, Bumiputeras (Malays as well as indigenous Tutong, Belait, Dusun, Murut, Kedayan and Bisaya) enjoy a number of affirmative action benefits denied others, including indigenous Iban and Penan minorities who are not considered to be Bumiputeras. (factsanddetails.com)

Second, it has also been translated by courts and other institutions into rules which prohibit any forms of religious affiliation in the public sphere. (independent.co.uk)

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