Minority rights
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The term minority rights embodies two separate concepts: first, normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or sexual minorities, and second, collective rights accorded to minority groups. The term may also apply simply to individual rights of anyone who is not part of a majority decision.
Civil rights movements often seek to ensure that individual rights are not denied on the basis of membership in a minority group, such as global Women's rights and global LGBT rights movements, or the various racial minority rights movements around the world (such as the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)).
See also
- Affirmative action
- Civil rights
- Ethnic group
- Ethnic war
- European Centre for Minority Issues
- Global Human Rights Defence
- Human rights
- LGBT rights in the United States
- Marek Edelman
- Marginalization
- Minority religion
- Minority Rights Group International
- National personal autonomy
- Nationalism
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Social stratification
- Teaching for social justice
- Tyranny of the majority
- The Yogyakarta Principles
