Minority rights

Minority rights are the normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or gender and sexual minorities, and also the collective rights accorded to any minority group.

Civil-rights movements often seek to ensure that individual rights are not denied on the basis of membership in a minority group. Such civil-rights advocates include the global women's-rights and global LGBT-rights movements, and various racial-minority rights movements around the world (such as the Civil Rights Movement in the United States).

Issues of minority rights intersect with debates over historical redress^[1] or over positive discrimination.^[2]

^ For example: Yoneyama, Lisa (15 September 2016). Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press (published 2016). ISBN 9780822374114. Retrieved 26 September 2020. The link between memories, historical redress and efforts to extend and secure minority rights is best expressed in the 1988 proposal for the Law Pertaining to Postwar Reparations and the Guarantee of Human Rights for Resident Aliens from Former Colonies [...].
^ Barten, Ulrike (23 September 2014). "Minority Rights". Minorities, Minority Rights and Internal Self-Determination. Cham, Zug: Springer (published 2014). p. 153. ISBN 9783319088761. Retrieved 26 September 2020. While discrimination is generally frowned upon[,] special treatment, also called affirmative action or positive discrimination, for certain groups is not unknown.

[1] For example: Yoneyama, Lisa (15 September 2016). Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press (published 2016). ISBN 9780822374114. Retrieved 26 September 2020. The link between memories, historical redress and efforts to extend and secure minority rights is best expressed in the 1988 proposal for the Law Pertaining to Postwar Reparations and the Guarantee of Human Rights for Resident Aliens from Former Colonies [...].

[2] Barten, Ulrike (23 September 2014). "Minority Rights". Minorities, Minority Rights and Internal Self-Determination. Cham, Zug: Springer (published 2014). p. 153. ISBN 9783319088761. Retrieved 26 September 2020. While discrimination is generally frowned upon[,] special treatment, also called affirmative action or positive discrimination, for certain groups is not unknown.

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