International human rights groups have for decades accused the military of gang-raping ethnic-minority women and forcing ethnic-minority civilians to act as human minesweepers, among other war crimes.
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China is hacking its ethnic minority groups far and wide.
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But they officially do not exist as an ethnic minority.
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Kurds are an ethnic minority distinct from Iraq's Arab majority.
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Ethnic minority issues are among the most sensitive in China.
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Some ethnic minority parties have already pledged support to Premadasa.
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Britain's ethnic-minority population is expanding and becoming more politically engaged.
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Kurds are a large ethnic minority along the Turkish-Syrian border.
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But the Jews are perhaps the world's most successful ethnic minority.
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That's nearly one in five of America's largest ethnic minority group.
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Tatarstan has ethnic ties to Crimea's Tatars, a large ethnic minority.
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Now, some of Iraq's religious and ethnic minority communities teeter on extinction.
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The Kurdish people are an ethnic minority group without an official state.
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Hui Muslims, like Tibetans, are an ethnic minority group found in China.
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The Uighurs are a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority concentrated in western China.
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Xinjiang is home to a largely Muslim ethnic minority group called Uighurs.
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The Amazigh are native inhabitants of North Africa, but an ethnic minority.
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In Xinjiang and Tibet, he boasts, he has enraptured his ethnic-minority audiences.
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Neither do Native Americans, Latinxs, Asians, nor any other racial or ethnic minority.
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He had taught at Beijing's Minzu University, which specializes in ethnic minority studies.
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Turkey has long seen itself as the protector of Iraq's Turkmen ethnic minority.
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It's part of a massive crackdown by Beijing on the ethnic minority group.
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Ajongo is a member of an ethnic minority, the Luo, also from Aweil.
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The government refuses to recognize the Rohingya as a legitimate native ethnic minority.
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The Rohingya, an ethnic minority, have been denied citizenship by Myanmar for generations.
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Church burning is reported in the southeast, where the Karen ethnic minority lives.
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More than 700,000 Rohingya, an ethnic minority group, have since fled the country.
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The remote western region is home to a Muslim ethnic minority called the Uighurs.
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But young, poor and ethnic-minority voters are more likely to crash into them.
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"These associations were stronger in ethnic minority children, particularly Latino children," Koinis-Mitchell said.
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Ethnic minority Tamils were often favored for higher government positions under British colonial rule.
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Racial and ethnic minority communities experience higher rates of obesity, cancer, diabetes, and AIDS.
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Nearly all of the victims were male and from racial or ethnic minority groups.
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Restrictions on religious freedom also intensified, particularly in ethnic minority Tibetan and Uyghur areas.
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Mount Sinjar is the historic home of the Yazidis, a religious and ethnic minority.
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Jane Xavier: We are a platform for migrant and ethnic minority people, especially women.
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There are 20 seats reserved for ethnic minority parties, including 453 seats for Serbs.
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Denmark's ghetto law reflects growing European discomfort with districts dominated by ethnic-minority groups.
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One in ten employees from an ethnic minority background told researchers they felt they were treated differently at work because of their ethnicity, while a fifth of all workers believed ethnic minority colleagues had had their career progression damaged because of their ethnicity.
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Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority, have been sent to the camps in large numbers.
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Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Turkey, making up roughly 20% of the population.
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The other distortion is in federal contracts earmarked for small businesses with ethnic-minority owners.
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But the key concern is that and unfairly target ethnic minority groups through blanket restrictions.
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The Bank of England has offered most of its sponsorship places to ethnic-minority women.
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Uygur is an alternate spelling for Uighur, the majority-Muslim ethnic minority living in Xinjiang.
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The changes faced by traditional ethnic minority cultures are common amid the global modernization process.
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The protesters, like Mr. Xian, were Hui, a Muslim ethnic minority, originally from China's northwest.
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The Uighurs are a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority largely based in Xinjiang, in western China.
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Bucharest and Brussels have earmarked funds for better integrating the Roma, Europe's largest ethnic minority.
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Hispanic Americans will surpass black Americans as the largest racial or ethnic minority voting group.
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China has used the technology to surveil and control ethnic minority groups like the Uighurs.
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Ms. Suthimongkol took us to a village inhabited by the Akha, an ethnic minority group.
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Britain in the 1970s was an uncomfortable time to be in an ethnic minority group.
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An estimated one million Rohingya live in Rakhine, where they are a persecuted, stateless ethnic minority.
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The country's leaders don't use it, and the Rohingya are not an officially recognized ethnic minority.
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Just nine people with ethnic minority backgrounds held CEO or chair roles at FTSE 250 companies.
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The organisation has asked more ethnic minority stars to present awards and appear at the ceremony.
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"The Bakonzo people have taken our land," complains Nelson Byabasaija, who belongs to an ethnic minority.
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More recently, ISIS kidnapped then beheaded seven members of the Hazara ethnic minority in Zabul province.
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Johnson is set to appoint the highest ever number of ethnic minority minsters, The Times reports.
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This time centering on the country's largest ethnic minority: the Kurds and their push for independence.
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Jesus was a member of an ethnic minority in a land that was under military occupation.
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Of the 22 promoted, 22% are women, and 2465% identified as an ethnic minority or LGBTQ.
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The Kurds are an ethnic minority group living predominantly in the south and east of Turkey.
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Chinese authorities have also reportedly used waterboarding and other forms of torture on the ethnic minority.
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The Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority reviled by Myanmar's Buddhist majority, have been persecuted for decades.
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For many of us, the testimonies of migrant and ethnic minority women marked a turning point.
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Since 2015, the government has promoted a cease-fire agreement that several ethnic minority groups have signed.
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But then a first wave of immigrants arrived — Tai Dams, an ethnic minority from Vietnam and Laos.
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It is practised by various ethnic minority communities in Britain such as Somalis, Eritreans, Sudanese and Egyptians.
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Overall, Albanian ethnic minority parties lost out to the social democrats, suggesting an easing of ethnic strains.
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Another reportedly banned Kazakhs, another ethnic minority in China targeted by the country's suppression and political indoctrination.
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Critics say these laws discriminate against low-income voters, younger voters and racial and ethnic minority groups.
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BERLIN — Numbering roughly 12 million across Europe, the Roma people make up the continent's largest ethnic minority.
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That attack led to expressions of support for Hong Kong's ethnic minority communities during the protest Sunday.
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For years, Buddhist-majority Myanmar has clashed with the Rohingya — an ethnic minority that is predominately Muslim.
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Both have large ethnic minority communities whose support has been essential for the Liberal Party, analysts said.
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The Chinese government has come under scrutiny for its treatment of Uighurs and other ethnic minority groups.
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Xinjiang is a vast region bordering central Asia that is home to millions of ethnic minority Muslims.
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The two siblings are Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority concentrated in the Xinjiang region of China.
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In 2015 the Conservatives won more than 1m ethnic minority votes and outpolled Labour among Hindus and Sikhs.
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"That gives the impression that no ethnic minority person has done anything of significance to appear," she continued.
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That sense will be exacerbated when (as is widely suspected) Obama nominates an ethnic minority to the bench.
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Residents, mainly from the Pushtun ethnic minority, found themselves caught between the militants and the army's repeated offensives.
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"You shouldn't need a person to formally complain when there's an attack on an ethnic minority," said Lee.
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That number rises to 51 percent for those who are Black, Asian, or belong to another ethnic minority.
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The US, Canada, Japan and Australia were among the countries condemning China's treatment of the ethnic minority group.
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Kurds are a large ethnic minority in Syria, and they have been a US ally against ISIS there.
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Dangerous fake news has spread on platforms like Facebook in Myanmar, where the Rohingya ethnic minority are persecuted.
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The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic-minority group that has lived as a people in Myanmar for centuries.
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The Kurds, who live in a semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq, are the country's largest ethnic minority.
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Hatidze speaks Turkish and describes herself as "a Turk," making her part of an ethnic minority in Macedonia.
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The ethnic-minority groups and intellectuals in the Socialist coalition had parties on the left to go to.
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We are the largest ethnic minority in the United States, at almost 18 percent of the country's population.
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Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority concentrated in the Xinjiang region, are used to this sort of surveillance.
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According to the report, younger women and those from ethnic minority backgrounds are more likely to experience harassment.
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"Too often ethnic minority employees feel they're hitting a brick wall when it comes to career progression," Mrs.
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The Honorable Sean D. Reyes is the 21st Attorney General and first ethnic minority elected statewide in Utah.
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Hispanics are the largest ethnic minority group in the U.S. and have issues they care and vote about.
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Asian-American Yang was the only ethnic minority candidate to qualify for the last Democratic debate in December.
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The Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gers) are a Muslim ethnic minority whose population is concentrated in far western China.
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In neighboring Myanmar, the frontier regions are dominated by ethnic minority groups, but underdevelopment and conflict make opportunities scarce.
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She was the first woman to lead the state, as well as the first person from an ethnic minority.
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A descendant of Saxons who settled there in medieval times, he is Romania's first president from an ethnic minority.
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The conflation of Han and national identity underlies the uneasy relationship between that majority and China's ethnic-minority citizens.
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We need to recognize the value this ethnic minority has in creating jobs and prosperity in the United States.
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Poor and ethnic-minority mothers are also less likely to use formal day-care centres in the first place.
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He can pile up votes in big cities where there are lots of ethnic minority voters and young people.
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She was to pretend to be a Chinese citizen belonging to an ethnic minority with cross-border cultural links.
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Most of those who applied for asylum in 2016 said they belonged to the Kurdish ethnic minority, Plate said.
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The Rohingya are a stateless ethnic minority denied citizenship within Myanmar, where they are regarded as illegal Bengali migrants.
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However, the main political leaders historically have largely dismissed ethnic minority grievances; many share the regime's Persian-centric nationalism.
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Ever since a military junta took power in 219.4, the former British colony has long disenfranchised the ethnic minority.
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"BME [black and ethnic minority] women have always been central to my practice," she told UN Women in December.
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The next phase of the genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is underway.
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Meanwhile, the economy has slowed and peace talks with rebels from Kachin and other ethnic minority areas have faltered.
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There is overwhelming evidence that women and members of ethnic minority groups are disproportionately the target of Twitter abuse.
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The 2011 census estimated that 40 percent of the population is from the Travelling community, Ireland's indigenous ethnic minority.
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Around midafternoon, we entered Mapingguan, a village of the Bai ethnic minority group, along a freshly paved stone path.
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Opposition leaders say the agreement threatens Kosovo's sovereignty by granting powers to an ethnic minority group backed by Serbia.
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Mr. Taylor said that he regretted not being able to afford a female slave from the Yazidi ethnic minority.
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A crackdown is underway there on ethnic minority groups — Uighurs, Kazakhs, Tajiks — who outnumber the otherwise dominant Han Chinese.
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Many members of the Kachin ethnic minority support the Kachin Independence Army, and Laiza tends to do so, also.
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URUMQI, China — She was one of the most revered academics from the Uighur ethnic minority in far western China.
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As a Persian, Shiite-led state, it is a sectarian and ethnic minority in a predominantly Sunni Arab region.
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First, further research on outreach programs that successfully reduce the racial and ethnic minority hospice enrollment gap is paramount.
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In September, Apple seemed to brush off the seriousness of an exploit attack directed at the Uighur ethnic minority.
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The Kurds make up the biggest ethnic minority in Syria, and faced systematic discrimination until the uprising in 2011.
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Some world leaders have called Myanmar's actions genocidal, given the expansive yet targeted assault on the Rohingya ethnic minority.
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Sri Lanka saw frequent suicide bombings before 2009 but ethnic minority Tamil separatist insurgents mostly went for government targets.
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Hossain says he fled discrimination as an ethnic minority in his country, after seeing his family members threatened or killed.
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The case was brought by Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam, a native of Sri Lanka and part of the ethnic minority group Tamil.
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The attacks are affecting Syrian Kurds, an ethnic minority group with a history of assisting the US in regional conflicts.
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Of the 83 FTSE 100 companies that volunteered to submit data, 37% had no ethnic minority representation on their boards.
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Kellehear, of the University of Bradford, says that not many ethnic minority groups in the UK are accessing palliative care.
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They had told him that an ethnic-minority bride would be more obedient than someone from the ethnic-Han majority.
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His organisation and other traveller groups are hoping the Irish state will one day recognise travellers as an ethnic minority.
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In Austria 68% of ethnic-minority voters picked the Social Democrats in the recent general election, against 32% of whites.
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Boston was a shock: It was his first time seeing snow, and his first time being in an ethnic minority.
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It is the Other—the ethnic minority, the immigrant—who has closed your factory, taken your job, threatened your safety.
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According to Google, China started increasing its content-removal requests of content about the oppressed Uighur ethnic minority in 2017.
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Most are Rohingya, though some are Rakhine, a Buddhist ethnic minority that has also been persecuted by the Myanmar Army.
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Satellite images show that at least 200 villages of Myanmar's Rohingya ethnic minority have been set ablaze since late August.
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They have in common agendas that would do serious harm to — or eliminate — members of racial and ethnic minority groups.
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Sri Lanka's long civil war ended in 2009 with the bloody crushing of an insurgency by the Tamil ethnic minority.
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But the Kurds, an ethnic minority sometimes disparaged by Arab Syrians, faced resentment among the Arab residents of northeastern Syria.
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More than one million people of religious or ethnic minority groups have been incarcerated, not one million minority ethnic groups.
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The study also found that British citizens of black and ethnic minority backgrounds were finding it harder to rent, too.
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"The Just Assassins" gives ethnic minority actors a chance to shine onstage at one of the city's most hallowed theaters.
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It's been three years since 6,000 members of the Yazidi ethnic minority were kidnapped by the Islamic State in Iraq.
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Former Parliament member Fawzi Akram, from Iraq's Turkmen ethnic minority, predicted the attack would end US dominance in the country.
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Lawi Weng, a member of southern Myanmar's Mon ethnic minority, is a practicing Buddhist who meditates each morning and night.
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It's the latest move in a marked escalation of attacks on ethnic minority groups under surveillance and subjection by Beijing.
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As an example, they point to China, where the technology is regularly used to surveil and oppress an ethnic minority.
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Its 2,000 residents were Montagnards, an ethnic minority tribe that had long resisted Viet Cong incursions in the Central Highlands.
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It also found 33 percent of ethnic minority respondents thought racial prejudice was as high as when Lawrence was murdered.
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Charities working with black, Asian and ethnic minority groups have been disproportionately affected, according to a recent IPPR North report.
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Only they didn't realize these were also the areas where the fictional ethnic minority seeking independence was most densely clustered.
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"Under the Suu Kyi government, the military has actually expanded its battles against many ethnic minority insurgent groups, and peace deals that would affect ethnic minority areas in the north and northeast have gained little traction," Joshua Kurlantzick, senior fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, said in a recent note.
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Those people aren't always being marketed to, like children, women, and insert your favorite ethnic minority in the United States here.
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When she won the Miss Vietnam contest last year, she was the first woman from an ethnic minority to do so.
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"As a teenager, I listened to hardcore, being [of a ethnic] minority and wanting a place to feel understood," he says.
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In several declining democracies, self-proclaimed populists have accumulated public support by turning majority sentiment against a racial or ethnic minority.
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It said priority regions included ethnic minority and border areas as well as old "revolutionary bases" of the Chinese Communist Party.
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She represented Ilham Tohti, an advocate for China's Uighur ethnic minority who is serving a life sentence on charges of separatism.
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Chinese authorities have cracked down hard on the country's Uyghur ethnic minority, and have placed them under heavy state-sanctioned surveillance.
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The Karen people are an ethnic minority trying to escape centuries of persecution in Burma, for the slightly more tolerant Thailand.
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As an ethnic minority, some Chinese-Australians see an identity associated with a stronger China as a path to more respect.
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We stopped in a village once populated by Rakhine Buddhists, Rohingya Muslims and the Mro, a formerly jungle-dwelling ethnic minority.
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The region of Xinjiang is home to the Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority being heavily surveilled by the Chinese government.
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And the plight of all ethnic minority groups has been compounded by the deadly incursions of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army.
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So do firms run by warlords from ethnic minority groups that populate northern Myanmar and that have long fought for autonomy.
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If you belong to a racial or ethnic minority, brace for a nativist backlash from an assertive (and possibly authoritarian) majority.
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Former inmates — most of whom are Uighurs, a largely Muslim ethnic minority — have reported that the camps are overcrowded and unsanitary.
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Since 2014, the Chinese government has employed sophisticated surveillance technology in the Xinjiang region, primarily to monitor China's Uighur ethnic minority.
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A struggle in October over China's mass internment of Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority, suggests how intense the fight has become.
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I could be wrong, but in my experience I think it's relatively unusual for ethnic minority kids to study social sciences.
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"Every ethnic minority, in seeking its own freedom, helped strengthen the fabric of liberty in American life," John F. Kennedy once wrote.
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It had come together early in the war to protect Syria's Kurds, a long-marginalized ethnic minority concentrated in the country's northeast.
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Almost six in ten of the U.K.'s biggest companies have no board members from ethnic minority backgrounds, new research has claimed.
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Regions with large ethnic-minority populations, such as Tibet, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, have long been regarded as breeding grounds for separatists.
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ISIS has been fighting the West, Shiites and any religious and ethnic minority that happen to be in its way ever since.
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AADP's executive director, Carol Gillespie, says an obstacle to recruiting donors in ethnic minority communities is misperceptions about what the procedure entails.
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For decades, the Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar has faced persecution and human rights violations at the hands of the Burmese government.
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The Kurds, an ethnic minority spread in the intersecting parts of Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq, have long sought an independent state.
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That compares with 1% of households among Uighurs, another ethnic minority whose members often chafe at rule by a Han-dominated government.
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Net worth: $8.5 billion Khan bought the Jaguars for about $760 million in 2011 to become the league's first ethnic minority owner.
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Our leaders are changing, too ... Almost 20% of voting members of the current House and Senate are a racial or ethnic minority.
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Dorsey's comments sparked a backlash on Twitter (TWTR), with many users criticizing him for ignoring Myanmar's treatment of its Rohingya ethnic minority.
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His family belongs to an ethnic minority, the Wa, who speak an Austroasiatic language that is also widespread in parts of China.
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Khan has repeatedly claimed not to know anything about China's oppression of the Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority in its west.
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While teams are more diverse, there remains a distinct lack of black and ethnic minority coaches and executives in positions of power.
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China is waging a massive security crackdown on the Uighur Muslim ethnic minority in detention camps and prisons in Xinjiang, western China.
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The magazine's reviews have covered books about Khmer history, Asian street-food culture, the Thai monarchy, ethnic-minority communities and much else.
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The anti-discrimination watchdog found Florea infringed on the right to dignity of an ethnic minority and fined him 10,000 lei ($2,320).
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That a higher proportion of ethnic-minority voters voted for Brexit than for the Tories in 2017 only adds to her appeal.
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Fighters for many of the groups routinely chant racist slurs against the Kurds, Syria's largest ethnic minority, calling them atheists or pigs.
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John Sudworth won for television reporting because of his BBC News investigation into China's camps for members of the Uighur ethnic minority.
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Mr. Lawi Weng was also there to investigate allegations of abuse by troops of ethnic-minority villagers, according to Mr. Aung Zaw.
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Growing up as an ethnic minority in Wales and being the black sheep in Hong Kong meant I didn't fit in anywhere.
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The president, who like Rajapaksa is from the majority Buddhist community, has reached out to ethnic minority Tamils and Muslims, upsetting Sinhala leaders.
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Her government is holding a peace conference, with most of the country's ethnic minority armed groups due to take part, on Aug. 31.
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Rakhine State is home to a large population of Rohingya Muslims, a stateless ethnic minority that has faced discrimination and persecution for years.
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The region is home to a Muslim ethnic minority called the Uighurs, who China has blamed for forming separatist groups and fueling terrorism.
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Abdullah's support is drawn heavily from among northern Tajiks, Afghanistan's second largest ethnic minority, who have been largely against Ghani, an ethnic Pashtun.
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Those tests weren't used for health screenings, as advertised, but as part of an effort to keep track of the ethnic minority population.
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At most neidiban schools, ethnic-minority students attend separate classes and live in segregated accommodation (this is justified by schools on "security" grounds).
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Myanmar governments have battled various ethnic minority insurgent groups since soon after independence from Britain in 1948, though some have struck ceasefire deals.
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At its height, the Fatemiyoun, as the Afghan militia was known, had as many as 20,000 fighters, largely from the Hazara ethnic minority.
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The Myanmar army has battled various autonomy-seeking ethnic minority insurgent groups for decades but several have agreed to peace in recent years.
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A major driving force of the anti-government activity has been ethnic minority groups, in particular the Kurds, Azerbaijanis, Ahvaz Arabs, and Baluch.
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Begin with the ghost chicken, traditionally made with black-skinned bantams that are slaughtered to mourn the dead by the ethnic minority Dai.
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"Everyone was taunting me on the way," said Elham, who hails from the Hazara ethnic minority that has long suffered discrimination in Afghanistan.
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Known as China's Mecca, it is a center of religious life for the Hui, an ethnic minority numbering 10 million who practice Islam.
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This has often caused friction between the two European Union neighbors with tensions flaring occasionally over the public use of ethnic minority flags.
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Inciting separatism is a serious political charge that is used to silence people from ethnic minority groups who are deemed troublemakers by officials.
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According to the Pew Research Center, more than two thirds of growth in the U.S. electorate comes from racial or ethnic minority communities.
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The country has for years denied oppressing the Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority in western China, with intrusive surveillance and mass detentions.
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At the center of the case is Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam, a native citizen of Sri Lanka and a member of an ethnic minority group.
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China did not target any ethnic minority, Mr. Hu said; its ethnic minorities lived in peace and contentment enjoying freedom of religious belief.
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The army conducted a scorched-earth campaign against the Rohingya ethnic minority, with soldiers throwing babies onto bonfires as they raped the mothers.
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The Darfur conflict flared when ethnic minority rebels took up arms against Mr. al-Bashir's government, accusing it of economic and political marginalization.
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This has often caused friction between the two European Union neighbours with tensions flaring occasionally over the public use of ethnic minority flags.
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The United States has also protested the detention of at least a million Uighurs and other Muslim ethnic minority members in northwest China.
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The Ziatyks were among 100,000 Lemkos, an ethnic minority, scattered about Ukraine as part of the forced-relocation program known as Operation Vistula.
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An American company severed its ties to a Chinese manufacturer that was reportedly making clothes using forced labor from an oppressed ethnic minority.
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It focuses on the plight of the Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority under intense surveillance and oppression by Beijing authorities in Xinjiang.
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Twitter users accused Dorsey of being tone deaf in his tweets, which come amid violence against the Rohingyas, an ethnic minority group in Myanmar.
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Sirisena was elected the following year after a campaign in which he promised to solve the issues faced by ethnic minority Tamils and Muslims.
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The Myanmar army has battled various autonomy-seeking ethnic minority insurgent groups for decades but several have agreed to make peace in recent years.
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China has stepped up security in Xinjiang in its far west amid fears of attacks by militants from the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority.
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That meant just 52 FTSE 100 firms were able to confirm that at least one board member had come from an ethnic minority background.
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For the top jobs, just six ethnic minority directors held the position of chair or CEO across the FTSE 100, according to EY's report.
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Choosing a woman or even a racial or ethnic minority male would mess with Trump's concerted outreach effort to disaffected, previously non-voting whites.
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IPSOS Mori estimates that, in the June 2017 general election, 73% of ethnic-minority voters voted Labour compared with 39% of ethnically white voters.
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The degree requirement could improve diversity in other ways, by encouraging ethnic-minority parents to view policing as a suitable career for bright offspring.
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Critics accused him of being tone deaf as Myanmar stands accused of carrying out a mass genocide and crimes against an ethnic minority group.
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The publication found 35 of these listings, which namely discriminated against Uyghurs, the country's Muslim minority, and Tibetans, another ethnic minority suppressed in China.
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Government troops have been fighting insurgencies by various ethnic minority guerrilla groups for decades, and both sides have been implicated in the drug trade.
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"It's distressing to have secret white supremacist groups talking about you," said Ghahraman, who is among a handful of parliamentarians from ethnic minority communities.
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Racial and ethnic minority families are twice more likely to be poor or low income (28500 percent) compared to non-Hispanic whites (6900 percent).
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday singled out China's oppression of the Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority living in the country's west.
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At 38, Varadkar is Ireland's youngest prime minister, as well as the first from an ethnic-minority background and the first openly gay leader.
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Critics said this week that Dorsey's tweets about his vacation in Myanmar ignored the deadly persecution of the Rohingya ethnic minority in the country.
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The Thai-Myanmar border is still dotted with landmines left over from clashes between ethnic-minority rebels and the Myanmar army dating back decades.
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Last month, China's anticorruption agency announced that it was investigating Nur Bekri, one of the few senior Chinese officials from the Uighur ethnic minority.
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The government tracks the number of "whites" as an "ethnic minority" in the city, but its statistics do not break that down by nationality.
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Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria, making up between 5 and 10 percent of the Syrian population of 113 million in 2011.
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The data from the study also supports a positive association between racial/ethnic minority Medicare hospice utilization and the prevalence of for-profit hospices.
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China's internment camps: Senior officials said today that the authorities had released most detainees held in the mass internment program for ethnic minority Muslims.
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Relations between the Muslim community and the Rakhine, a Buddhist ethnic minority, were tense for decades, long before the outbreak of violence in 2012.
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Hawi Tin, the kidnapped lawmaker, hails from the Chin ethnic minority, some of whom are Christian and have a historic rivalry with Buddhist Rakhines.
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Delegates from China's dozens of ethnic minority groups were required, as always, to wear traditional costumes, often with elaborate headgear - and news photographers swarmed.
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What's more, Ellison is the ideal choice to signal that Sandersism isn't code for some agenda of abandoning Democrats' commitment to ethnic minority groups.
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Abudujilili Supi, a Chinese Muslim of the persecuted Uighur ethnic minority, was arrested for no clear reason in the United Arab Emirates last week.
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In halting Spanish, he explained that as a member of the Fula ethnic minority, he was fleeing persecution from political elites in the Malinke tribe.
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A new survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) paints a grim picture of living conditions for the continent's largest ethnic minority.
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The exhibition will also contain one future turning point: 2020, the year that mixed-race Britons are projected to become the country's largest ethnic minority.
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An exam on black, Asian, and ethnic minority history will be introduced for history undergraduate students at Oxford University following complaints about the university's curriculum.
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The previous day gal-dem, a collective of ethnic-minority women, had also staged a cultural coup at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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The military for decades battled ethnic minority Tamil separatists, most of them Hindu, but violence had largely ended since a government victory 10 years ago.
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In examining the relationship between white identity and ethnic diversity, we chose to focus on an ethnic minority of particular salience in contemporary politics: Hispanics.
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The majority of Myanmar's population is Buddhist, but about 1 million Rohingya Muslims live in the country, and the ethnic minority has long faced persecution.
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President Sirisena was elected the following year after a campaign in which he promised to solve the issues faced by ethnic minority Tamils and Muslims.
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Myanmar governments have battled various autonomy-seeking ethnic minority insurgent groups since shortly after independence from Britain in 1948, though some have struck ceasefire agreements.
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Warnings also applies to black and ethnic minority fans, due to long held concerns about the presence of far-right nationalist groups in the country.
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According to Pew Research, 2202 will be the first U.S. election in which Hispanics make up the largest racial or ethnic minority in the electorate.
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Erdogan's entrenched opposition toward the Kurdish community (the largest ethnic minority in Turkey), who want greater political and cultural rights, shows no signs of changing.
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Members of ethnic minority groups in traditional dress welcomed Francis at Yangon airport, and children presented him with flowers as he stepped off his plane.
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A visit by Rita Izsak-Ndiaye, the UN special rapporteur on minority issues, comes amid complaints of rights violations by ethnic minority Tamils and Muslims.
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China's Communist Party is waging a hardline campaign against the Uighur ethnic minority, which has seen more than 1 million people detained in prison camps.
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She is 18 and this was her first pregnancy, but as a member of the Rohingya ethnic minority she could not get a doctor's help.
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He has, however, strongly supported some persecuted groups, including advocating for an increase in the number of Iraqi ethnic minority Yazidis to settle in Australia.
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The NFL enacted the Rooney Rule in 2003 which requires league teams to interview ethnic-minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs.
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More than 1 in 4 members of the House of Representatives is a racial or ethnic minority, but only 10% of that group are Republicans.
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In the end, these overcame the interests of the political and Economic Establishment, the young, black, and ethnic minority voters, and the cosmopolitan urban population.
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Beijing has been criticized around the world for its treatment of the Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority who are intensively surveilled and frequently detained.
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Xinjiang is home to some 11 million Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority currently subjected to unprecedented and invasive surveillance techniques by the Chinese state.
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Beijing accuses separatists among the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority there of stirring up tensions with the ethnic Han Chinese majority and plotting attacks elsewhere in China.
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Ethnic minority activists pushing for a federal system of government in Myanmar oppose the statue and other monuments to a leader from the country's Burman majority.
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It later removed 5,000 categories that allowed advertisers to exclude religious and ethnic minority groups after the Department of Housing and Urban Development filed a complaint.
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Thirty-one percent of those eligible to vote this November will be members of a racial or ethnic minority group, compared to 29 percent in 2012.
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The decision comes as the scope of Myanmar's brutal crackdown on its Rohingya ethnic minority, the world's fastest-growing human rights disaster, come into sharper focus.
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Dressed in the ethnic minority Circassians&apos traditional garb, the 40-year old said he was "ecstatic" to return to the capital of his native hometown.
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The film tells the true story of Inge Sargent, an Austrian woman who married Sao Kya Seng, a prince - or saopha - of Myanmar's Shan ethnic minority.
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Latinos, who make up the fastest growing minority, are also the youngest ethnic minority in the country, with 85033 million Latinos under the age of 18.
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Even though fewer searches take place, only 16% of young ethnic-minority men believe the tactic is being used less often, according to polls by YouGov.
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Although many of the changes were small, the cumulative effect has been to narrow the ethnic-minority attainment gap by ten percentage points in five years.
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That judgment is under appeal, and the court has moved on to crimes at detention centers and forced labor sites, and against two ethnic minority groups.
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Kurds, an ethnic minority living mostly in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, have long demanded their own independent state — sometimes using violence to make their point.
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The Afghan Interior Ministry, in a statement, said the attack on thousands of Hazaras, an ethnic minority group staging the protest, had been a suicide mission.
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"Those less likely to receive optimal care tend to be poor, ethnic minority and the elderly," Bastani, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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Human rights lawyers, Tibetans, ethnic minority groups, labor organizers, Christians, and free speech advocates all face repression and harassment when they peacefully seek universally-recognized rights.
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They are Rohingya, part of a mainly Muslim ethnic minority group of approximately 1 million people in the western Rakhine State of the majority Buddhist country.
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China integrates AI, biometric data and online activity to track and monitor dissidents and members of ethnic minority communities, who are then sent to reeducation camps.
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Last week, ISIS affiliates from China's Uighur ethnic minority vowed to return home and "shed blood like rivers" in the first ever such threat against China.
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It was designed by advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi to promote 'Operation Black Vote' - a campaign to encourage black and ethnic minority Britons to register and vote.
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The Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim ethnic minority in China, are subject to some of the most severe surveillance and repression in the country&aposs history.
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The fabric was not as flashy or colorful as that made by other ethnic-minority groups in Vietnam, she said, but she loved its understated complexity.
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Though most common with Caucasians, suicide by gun increased proportionally more among racial and ethnic minority groups, the study showed, especially among African-Americans and Latinos.
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Beijing has been pushing back against global criticism for detaining as many as one million members of Muslim ethnic minority groups in the western Xinjiang region.
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Access to technological devices and broadband Internet is lower among rural residents, older adults, members of racial and ethnic minority groups and people with lower incomes.
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In the 2020 presidential election, Latinos will be the largest ethnic minority group in the electorate, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center.
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Even in their home countries, Hmong are an ethnic minority and have been victims of persecution, being forced to flee their homes for hundreds of years.
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Coverage of official policy is uniformly positive, and sensitive stories, like the imprisonment of the Uighur ethnic minority group, are either briefly covered or completely banned.
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Many of the federation's players come from ethnic-minority communities that typically encounter systemic discrimination, such as the area where Khang lives, which is predominantly Hmong.
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The support of Muslim voters and ethnic minority Tamils was decisive in the election victory of Mr. Sirisena in 2014 over the former strongman, Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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A member of the persecuted Hazara ethnic minority, he fled under threat of violence and traveled across Asia in hopes of crossing into the European Union.
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Reports indicate that this may be the largest incarceration of an ethnic minority population since World War II, and that it may constitute crimes against humanity.
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Since the first census was conducted, both the number of minorities and the percentage of the population that identifies as an ethnic minority have risen significantly.
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The Karen are an ethnic minority many of whom live in communities in forests of northern and western Thailand, and over the b0rder in neighboring Myanmar.
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Take Rubi, a brilliant inventor who also happens to be in a wheelchair, or sports-and-music-obsessed JJ, one of the comic's first ethnic-minority characters.
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Jaffna was part of the northern heartland of ethnic minority Tamils, who battled the government for a separate state for 26 years until their defeat May 2009.
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The programme's apparent aim is to win the support of elites in restive frontier areas and give the brightest ethnic-minority children more exposure to Han culture.
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The Times * Lloyds Banking Group aims to raise the proportion of black, Asian and ethnic minority staff to 22 percent of its senior managers by 25. bit.
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Theresa May launched a consultation this week on what information employers should publish to help address the "significant disparities" in pay among ethnic minority and white employees.
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While there are more female students and faculty today than when Villa-Komaroff was starting out, the progress with ethnic minority scholars has been slower, she said.
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Cops are seeking out facial recognition systems that blatantly target the country's ethnic minority with increasing demand, and it's a disturbing normalization of an already troubling technology.
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He is also expected to increase the number of women attending cabinet meetings and to appoint a record number of ethnic minority politicians, his team has said.
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The Chinese government has systematically surveilled and oppressed the roughly 11 million Uighurs, an ethnic minority in the western part of the country who are predominantly Muslim.
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About 1.1 million people in the state of Rakhine identify themselves as Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority that has long suffered persecution in the Buddhist-majority nation.
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Zinat Pirzadeh, a school careers counselor in Stockholm, said Swedish girls from ethnic minority backgrounds vanished every year to be married off in their parents' home countries.
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Rwanda has frequently had diplomatic rows with France since the genocide, when about 800,000 mostly ethnic minority Tutsis and moderates from the Hutu majority population were killed.
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Gemma Catney at the University of Liverpool has shown that every ethnic minority became less segregated between 2001 and 242 (the two most recent British census years).
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But what you see in the app are very real struggles for Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority that has faced discrimination and persecution in Myanmar for years.
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An estimated one million Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority in western China, are being held in camps across the region, according to a US congressional report.
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Congress is giving the United States a fresh chance to show leadership on one of today's biggest human rights crises: the genocide against Burma's Rohingya ethnic minority.
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Much of the music is about their country: an anthem from the Cultural Revolution, Peking Opera numbers or songs from one of China's many ethnic-minority groups.
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The Karen are an ethnic minority many of whom live in communities in the forests of northern and western Thailand, and over the border in neighboring Myanmar.
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Instead, the former Fortune 500 company CEO expressed concern about racial and ethnic minority children growing up in the United States with President Donald Trump in office.
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The report also found that more black, Asian and ethnic minority workers are employed in London's tech scene than across the UK in general (15% v 10%).
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Rohingya are not regarded as an indigenous ethnic minority in Myanmar - the government even refuses to recognize the term "Rohingya", instead labeling them illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
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Aziz was referring to the mass surveillance and detention of Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority in the western region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkestan.
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"True, average Scholastic Assessment Test scores for some ethnic minority students are lower than the overall averages," he wrote in a letter to The Times in 1995.
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Hundreds of thousands of people from the Rohingya ethnic minority are being expelled by the military from lands in western Myanmar, where they have lived for centuries.
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At a shelter near the southern city of Paksong, a 30-year-old woman from the Talieng ethnic-minority group described losing her mother in the floodwaters.
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The event was held to mark 25 years since the death of Abdul Ali Mazari, the leader of Afghanistan's ethnic minority Hazaras, who are predominately Shiite Muslims.
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The blog provided a mix of military news, like hype about the purchase of new Russian fighter jets, and posts attacking ethnic minority groups like the Rohingya.
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And it said one million minority ethnic groups had been incarcerated in China's Xinjiang Province, when we meant one million people of religious or ethnic minority groups.
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For decades, racial, religious and ethnic minority groups like Nubians, Somalis and Kenyans of Indian origin have faced obstacles and delays when applying for government-issued papers.
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Irbil, Iraq (CNN)Iraqi Kurds cast ballots in a controversial independence referendum Monday as tensions between Iraq's largest ethnic minority and the Iraqi government in Baghdad intensified.
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The Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Turkey and compose between 250% and 23.6% of the population (which is some 22011 million to 213 million people).
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"The core of the Xinjiang issue [in China] is not human rights, ethnic minority or religion; instead, the core is anti-terrorism and anti-separatism," Chunying said.
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If Ryan is holding the gavel when Trump or one of his surrogates disparages a religious or ethnic minority, will he turn his gaze to the horizon?
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The fundamental concept of Donald Trump's ethnonationalist demagoguery is that white middle-class Americans are locked in a zero-sum conflict with foreigners and ethnic minority groups.
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Hispanics made up 17.6 of the U.S. population in 2015, up 12 percent from 20123, according to the U.S. Census, making them the country's largest ethnic minority.
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In recent weeks Suu Kyi has also toured ethnic minority areas, where support for her party is weakest, and on Monday touted Myanmar's potential to global investors.
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Experts believe more than 1m Uighurs—a mostly Muslim ethnic minority in China—have been locked up as part of a campaign to make the region less restive.
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"We are deeply concerned about the U.S. deal," Imran Mohammad, 22, a stateless man from the Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar, told Reuters by telephone from Manus Island.
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"I really loved the Yazidi people," he said, referring to the ethnic minority subjected to genocidal violence by ISIS in their homeland near the Iraqi city of Sinjar.
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As an ethnic minority, Li was a frequent target of his coworkers, and he embraced what he saw as good-natured racist jokes at his expense, he says.
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Britain&aposs MI6 intelligence service has made its first-ever television ad, aiming to banish macho James Bond-style imagery and attract more women and ethnic-minority recruits.
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The problem is that China is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world, with about 130 ethnic-minority languages as well as its Han ones.
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Trump: If Clinton wins Pennsylvania, she cheated "If we want ethnic minority voters to support Republicans, we have to engage them and show our sincerity," the report said.
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His death could make the granting of greater rights to ethnic minority groups under the constitution less likely as he favored a more conciliatory approach on the issues.
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The New York Times recently reported that police in that country are now specifically requesting systems that can identify faces belonging to members of the Uighur ethnic minority.
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Hundreds of Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority group, have died since violence erupted just over two weeks ago in the Southeast Asian nation, formerly known as Burma.
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In 2009, Rajapaksa ended the country's decades-long civil war, winning victory for the majority Sinhalese Buddhists by crushing a rebellion led by Tamils, the largest ethnic minority.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Myanmar is facing a "defining moment" and must stop the violence against its ethnic minority Rohingya population, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday.
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As part of a government project to bring Uyghurs, a Chinese ethnic minority, to the capital, only 18 would be selected to bring their various specialties with them.
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Nepal has in recent years criticized what it sees as Indian interference in agitation by some ethnic minority people in Nepal campaigning for greater political and economic rights.
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An analysis of survey responses from 800 employees found ethnic minority women suffered higher rates of harassment at work when compared to white people and men of color.
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The brutal story of this Nigerian immigrant being hounded by the police in the 1960s still resonates loudly today to those of us in Britain's ethnic-minority population.
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Mr. Shwe Mann, a Bamar, denies mistreating ethnic minority civilians during his battle years, when he suffered shrapnel wounds, malaria and too many fallen men under his command.
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Human rights groups contend that the Tatmadaw, as the military is known, would regularly raid ethnic minority villages for supplies and even turn children into walking mine detectors.
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Background: Using Hikvision technology, China has built what amounts to a police state in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, home to the Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority.
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Kurdish officials announced Wednesday that nearly 93 percent of voters approved the referendum, which aims to create an independent state for the Kurds, an ethnic minority in Iraq.
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Hackers backed by the Chinese government have been burrowing into telecom networks in other parts of Asia in an effort to track Uighurs, China's mostly Muslim ethnic minority.
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The US State Department believes more than 2 million ethnic minority people, including Uyghur Muslims, have been held in a wide network of detention camps since 2017. 5.
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" He cited what he said were claims by multiple "local journalists" that the ethnic minority "purposely exaggerate (lie about)" their situation to "get more foreign aid and attention.
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Min Aung Hlaing has attended events that are symbolically important for Suu Kyi and the two sides are collaborating in efforts to forge peace with ethnic minority rebels.
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Both the public and commercial sectors need to establish opportunities specifically for Black emerging and mid-career artists and curators rather than lumping all ethnic minority groups together.
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All told, 134 people were killed in Saturday's brutal assault targeting the Fulani ethnic minority, which has been accused of having ties to jihadist organizations in the area.
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The suicide bombings that were pioneered there starting in the 1980s were carried out by guerrillas from the country's Tamil ethnic minority who were mainly Hindu, not Muslims.
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"If [Trump] were talking about any other group—whether a faith group or ethnic minority—the way that he's talking about Muslims, he would be shamed," Neggez argues.
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Two journalists pretended to be travel bloggers to enter Xinjiang, the western Chinese province where police are intensely cracking down on the Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority.
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China maintains that it protects the rights of all ethnic minority cultures and its constitution grants groups the freedom to use and develop their own written and spoken languages.
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Bert Jara, an advocate for Latino concerns, says city elders are dodging hard issues like white flight from the public-school system, which is now over 70% ethnic-minority.
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And the idea he would say that British citizens who happen to be an ethnic minority should 'go back' if they don't like one of his policies is unthinkable.
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Recent months have also seen sweeping crackdowns on traditional Muslim culture among the Uighur ethnic minority group in the northwestern region of Xinjiang and among Christians in eastern China.
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The Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority from Myanmar's western Rakhine state, have been subjected to decades of persecution in the Buddhist-majority nation, culminating in massacres in 2012.
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" He set up the "Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant," a college scholarship available only to white men to put them "on equal footing with their female, queer and ethnic minority classmates.
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She needs to retain support in ethnic minority areas to win elections next year, and secure peace with armed groups that profess to fight for minority rights and autonomy.
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Meanwhile, Orban's disdain for Ukraine is linked to a long-running geopolitical dispute in the region and allegations of the mistreatment of a Hungarian ethnic minority in the country.
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Democrats raised concerns that changes to the CRA, which banks claim is outdated and overly bureaucratic, could lead to discriminatory lending practices against low-income and ethnic minority communities.
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Suu Kyi has struggled to make progress with autonomy-seeking ethnic minority rebels, who have accused her government of a high-handed approach and ignoring their grievances and aspirations.
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A recent massive iPhone hack discovered by Google researchers may have been a campaign to target Uighur Muslims, an oppressed ethnic minority living in China, TechCrunch and Forbes report.
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The Sunni group Jaish al Adl (Army of Justice), which says it seeks greater rights and better living conditions for the ethnic minority Baluchis, claimed responsibility for the attack.
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A militant Sunni Muslim group called Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), who are seeking greater rights and better living conditions for the ethnic minority Baluchis, claimed the attack.
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Questions about representation for ethnic minority groups or communities of interest are taken care of exactly the way they should be — from the bottom up by voters and parties.
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More than 620,000 Rohingya, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar, have flooded into Bangladesh, escaping what the United States on Wednesday termed "ethnic cleansing" by Myanmar's security forces.
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The audit found that the unemployment rate for black, Asian and other ethnic-minority people, at 8 percent, was nearly double that of white British adults, at 4.6 percent.
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During armed clashes in Myanmar in February 2015, refugees from the Ta'ang and other ethnic minority groups in the country's northeastern Kokang region fled across the border into China.
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Kurdish fighters, along with Arab and ethnic minority and religious groups, fight under the banner of the Syrian Democratic Forces alongside the U.S. to root out ISIS from Syria.
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Other ethnic minority parties though, have already pledged support to Premadasa, who has vowed to eradicate poverty and improve housing under a slogan of "shelter for all at 2025".
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The U.N. investigators concluded that sexual violence committed by Myanmar troops against Rohingya women and girls in 2017 indicated the military intended to destroy the mainly Muslim ethnic minority.
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China&aposs unprecedented oppression of Uighur Muslims goes beyond the borders of Xinjiang, the western Chinese region where most of the ethnic minority live, former residents told Business Insider.
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For instance, in November CGTN America was told to broadcast a piece that played down China's imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of members of the Uighur ethnic minority group.
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Since 85033, four million American-born Latinos have turned 18 and are eligible to vote, making Latinos the largest ethnic minority group eligible to vote in the 2020 election.
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The Myanmar military has published a book about the Rohingya Muslims that uses doctored photographs to portray the ethnic minority as murderers and refugees, according to a Reuters report.
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The Rohingya are a stateless ethnic minority who regularly face persecution -- the official position of Myanmar's government doesn't recognize the term "Rohingya" and instead says they are illegal Bengali migrants.
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Even Kurdish women, part of an ethnic minority who have been marginalized throughout Turkey's history and most recently over the past three years, are allowed to march on this day.
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Journalists and protestors can be targeted by the same technology as easily as any fugitive, and China has been accused of using face recognition to surveil its Muslim ethnic minority.
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Low levels of education or income and being part of a ethnic minority group increased the risk of mental health issues, the authors report in the Journal of Public Health.
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Complying with the IJOP system could be burdensome to government officials too, especially those from ethnic minority groups, who could be targeted for internment themselves if they are deemed disloyal.
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Poland is generally estimated to have lost 6 million people during World War II; about half of the dead were Jews, the rest Poles and members of ethnic minority groups.
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China has stepped up its surveillance efforts in Xinjiang, the western region that's home to the Uighur ethnic minority group — including making advances in human policing and high-tech surveillance.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's two biggest banks have set targets for ethnic minority representation in top roles after criticism of some of the country's largest companies for being opaque about diversity.
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In 2017, the first report made a series of recommendations for FTSE-listed firms, including a target of having at least one director from an ethnic minority background by 2021.
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Nobel laureate Suu Kyi came to power following a landslide election win in late 2016, vowing to prioritize peace talks between ethnic minority guerrilla groups, the military and civilian government.
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Last year, widespread enmity for the country's best-known ethnic minority, the Rohingya Muslims, fed a savage military campaign that forced some 700,103 people to flee their homes for Bangladesh.
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Finding a solution to the Myitsone project is important for Suu Kyi who needs China's cooperation in talks with Myanmar ethnic minority armed groups operating along the border with China.
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Put bluntly, Keshap's comments are ridiculous and a slap in the face to the country's Tamil community (an ethnic minority in a country that is largely comprised of ethnic Sinhalese).
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Partnering with architects at the Consultorio de Asesoría Arquitectónica, Sombra is donating their bricks back to the local community in Oaxaca's Sierra Mixe district, home to the Mixe ethnic minority.
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In Burma, an ethnic minority is given privileges by the government, and the Buddhists, who are very poor in Rakhine State, do not want the Rohingya to receive these privileges.
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Dozens of people from the Uighur ethnic minority have in recent weeks posted edited videos of themselves on Douyin, the video platform, appearing to memorialize their missing family and friends.
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Here's to showing them what they are missing 💪🏽 Despite the absence in the media, asian is actually the largest ethnic minority in the U.K. Asians deserve to be represented.
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Soon Ethiopia's second largest ethnic group, the Amhara, joined in, and the protests have now hardened into calls to overthrow the government, which is led by a small ethnic minority.
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It also would mark the first time the Trump administration punished a Chinese company for its role in the surveillance and mass detention of Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority.
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In the case before the appeals court, Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam, a member of Sri Lanka's Tamil ethnic minority, was arrested about 25 yards north of the border near San Ysidro, Calif.
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It flat-out denies the use of arbitrary detention, the targeting of an ethnic minority, or the existence of the re-education camps, which it described as job-training centers.
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Impact: Some observers noted that because the court did not outline specific steps and does not have enforcement power, it would take more action to protect the ethnic minority group.
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Moscow alleged Jamala's song, about a Kremlin purge of an ethnic minority from Crimea in the 1940s, was a veiled attack on Russia and broke contest rules banning political messages.
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The country has struggled for decades to reach lasting peace agreements with a multitude of ethnic minority guerrilla groups that have fought against the government for greater autonomy and recognition.
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The law excludes nearly 100,000 Sri Lankan Tamils, an ethnic minority, who live in India, including about 60,000 in camps in southern Tamil Nadu state, according to the home department.
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Indeed, a journalist friend from Myanmar will often identify himself, in questions, as a member of the Karen ethnic minority, signaling that he is writing on behalf of Karen interests.
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Nadia was living in Sinjar, northern Iraq, in 2014 when ISIS rounded up thousands of women and girls like her from the Yazidi ethnic minority and forced them into sexual slavery.
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His sudden fame won him a meeting with his hero but caused problems for his family, members of the Hazara ethnic minority from Jaghori district in the central province of Ghazni.
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An agreement brokered by Aung San and signed by several major ethnic minority groups granted minorities significant autonomy and the right to secede if they joined a post-independence federal union.
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The problem is that Rizwan's family are Uighurs — an ethnic minority group from the Xinjiang region in western China that is being subjected to a campaign of mass incarceration and surveillance.
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The Academy, which hands out the Oscar honors, announced in short order after Lee registered his protest that it would double the number of women and ethnic minority members by 2020.
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The Sunni group Jaish al Adl (Army of Justice), which says it seeks greater rights and better living conditions for the ethnic minority Baluchis, claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday.
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In this case, however, it appears to have distracted public attention as the Puerto Rico crisis — fueling accusations that the Trump government is uninterested in the welfare of ethnic minority groups.
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Poverty was exacerbated by the fact that half of the country's ethnic minority groups did not have citizenship, making it harder to get formal employment and preventing them from owning land.
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Those seeking democracy and change in the regime in Iran must reconsider their existing policies that dismiss ethnic minority demands – failure to do so risks alienating an enormous reservoir of support.
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Refugee crisis Beginning in 2012 amid sectarian violence in Myanmar's Rhakine state, tens of thousands of Rohingya, a long-oppressed ethnic minority not recognized by the government, began fleeing the country.
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Some observers point out that the Rohingya issue is so heated in Myanmar that Suu Kyi would lose her popularity, and eventually possibly her position, if she backed the ethnic minority.
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In addition, this disappointment coupled with Trump's relentless scapegoating of immigrants and hateful rhetoric against racial and ethnic minority groups (among others) appears to be driving some disgruntled whites to violence.
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This past week, my colleagues at The Times reported on the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority in Myanmar that has been subjected to brutal violence and mass displacement.
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But for the older members of this ethnic minority, growing their own food is a way of staying connected to the life they left behind in the rural farms of Guizhou.
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Brang Aung had worked in Hpakant, northern Myanmar's notoriously dangerous mining district, for eight years, but still told his family - Christians from the Kachin ethnic minority - to pray for his safety.
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Among the political prisoners behind bars or facing trial are people accused of criticizing the army and ethnic minority activists jailed after protesting against war between government forces and minority insurgents.
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How the 'Kurdish question' complicates the anti-ISIS alliance The PKK is identified as a terror group by Turkey, the US and the EU. The Kurds are Turkey's largest ethnic minority.
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Mr. Higgins won easily, with about 56 percent of the vote, despite a late surge by a former reality show celebrity whose support soared after he criticized an ethnic minority group.
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Rohingya community leaders in the Bangladesh camps say they will return only if Myanmar's government gives them the same rights it has given the country's dozens of other ethnic minority groups.
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When Naqeebullah Mehsud was murdered last month by the Karachi police, the aspiring model's death prompted thousands of Pashtuns, Pakistan's biggest ethnic minority, to take to the streets to demand justice.
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The Kachin are an ethnic minority who were Christianized in the 19th century by American missionaries — and their leaders use church networks to orchestrate this underground resistance to the meth trade.
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The letter named HikVision, which the Trump administration is considering blocking from purchasing America components over its role in the surveillance and mass detention of Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority.
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This past week, my colleagues at The Times reported on the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority in Myanmar that has been subjected to brutal violence and mass displacement.
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"For a long time, Guizhou has known that one of its strongest cultural resources is the ethnic minority villages," said Kuanghan Li, the China program director of the Global Heritage Fund.
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The final phase of the local polls is set for June 14, when the restive southern plains, home to ethnic minority groups demanding greater representation, will head to the ballot box.
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According to work by Gemma Catney now of Queens' University Belfast, between 2001 and 2011 (the two most recent British census years) every ethnic minority except the Chinese became less segregated.
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As a native ethnic minority whom the government considers illegal, the Rohingya of Myanmar — who now make up one-tenth of the world's stateless people — are particularly vulnerable to population swaps.
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If Ellison is elected DNC chair, he could play a potentially powerful role in advocating for ethnic minority groups, including Muslims, who feel deeply concerned about Trump's past comments about non-whites.
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According to 2011 census data, Asian people form 41 percent of the population of the borough, with 32 percent of that figure comprising Bangladeshi people, the largest ethnic minority in the borough.
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Meanwhile, the majority Pashtun Taliban was routed by a coalition of militias from Afghanistan's non-Pashtun ethnic minority groups, known as the Northern Alliance, backed by US ground forces and air power.
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New research published this week from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health has linked an increased prevalence of childhood anxiety amongst low socioeconomic ethnic minority populations of kids with food allergies.
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Sri Lanka was at war for decades with ethnic minority Tamil separatists, most of them Hindu, but violence had largely ended since the government victory in the civil war, 10 years ago.
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The report suggested companies take steps such as reporting their ethnic diversity policies, publishing data on their boardroom diversity, and developing a pool of "high potential ethnic minority leaders" through mentorship programs.
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In a blog post announcing the updated version, developer Don Ho writes about the plight of the Uyghur people, an ethnic minority in China that's faced persecution from the country's authoritarian government.
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At big party events, ethnic-minority delegates typically attend in brightly coloured folk costumes trimmed with silks, furs or jangling silver jewellery, even as Han delegates appear in Western suits and ties.
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"We believe that there are dozens more cases, especially from rural areas, or ethnic minority enclaves, where people have disappeared," said Phil Robertson, the deputy director for Asia at Human Rights Watch.
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Extreme weather will also rewrite tea-growing seasons among the ethnic minority groups living in Yunnan, such as the Aini, to which the 49-year-old Que Liu and his family belong.
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Facebook's latest attempt at placating activists and lawmakers who say its advertising platform permits discrimination is to remove 5,000 options that can be used to exclude certain religious and ethnic minority groups.
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Although mocked at the time, "Vote blue, go green" was a crucial part of his cosmopolitan agenda, which mixed environmentalism with social liberalism and an emphasis on winning over ethnic-minority voters.
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Some of the time identity seems to be taken as an adamantine fact: a person's identity as a woman or a member of an ethnic minority seems to trump all other considerations.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Two people have been killed as fresh violence erupted in India's Darjeeling hills in protests over the killing earlier of a member of an ethnic minority, police said on Sunday.
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Varadkar knows about defying the odds -- dude was Ireland's first openly gay and ethnic minority PM when he was elected in 2017, not to mention the youngest one in the country's history.
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China has been promoting Mandarin for decades to ensure national cohesion in a country where there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of dialects, as well as ethnic minority languages like Tibetan and Uighur.
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Some observers point out that the Rohingya issue is so heated in Myanmar that the Nobel laureate would lose her popularity, and eventually possibly her position, if she backed the ethnic minority.
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While some Afghans in Europe are considered economic migrants by several European countries and are therefore given less opportunity for asylum, the Hazaras, an ethnic minority, are in a particularly precarious situation.
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Starting several thousand years ago, the book recounts the history of Arakan, the ancient empire of the Rakhine people, who are an ethnic minority with long nurtured grievances against the Burmese majority.
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Extreme weather will also rewrite tea-growing seasons among the ethnic minority groups living in Yunnan, such as the Aini, to which the 210-year-old Que Liu and his family belong.
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Ms. Kakutani likens what happened to her own ethnic minority to today's "Muslim ban" rulings and the shocking actions of our government toward immigrants seeking asylum (especially its heartless separation of families).
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Leaders of the group deny receiving any foreign funding and say the PTM is a non-violent grassroots movement dedicated only to defending the civil rights of ethnic minority Pashtuns in Pakistan.
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On the boat ride home, after seeing Sone, we visited a different kind of village, belonging to the Khmu people from the Lao Theung ethnic minority, who are animists, worshiping animal spirits.
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In his work as a diplomat, he was especially interested in Xinjiang and Tibet, two large regions of China where there is considerable discontent among ethnic minority groups with Communist Party rule.
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Ilham Tohti had long called on the Chinese authorities to show greater respect for the culture of Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority who live primarily in Xinjiang, a western autonomous region.
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After a mortar attack on a Hazara gathering in Kabul killed 11 people and wounded 95 on March 7, Hazara politicians again accused the government of failing to protect the ethnic minority.
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"We cannot be afraid to call the actions of the Burmese authorities what they appear to be: a brutal, sustained campaign to cleanse the country of an ethnic minority," Ms. Haley said.
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But the Kurdish cause in Iraq is, at its essence, a matter of long-term security and survival for an ethnic minority group that has been subjected to violent repression for generations.
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"One of the defining qualities of Jazz Re:freshed is that since its inception they've said, 'We're trying to increase ethnic minority representation in both the performers and the audience,'" Mr. Hutchings said.
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The official said the world needed to see the document, and expressed their desire for an end to the difficult times facing Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority being sent to the camps.
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Leaked documents from the Chinese government show the inner workings of detention camps in Xinjiang, where millions of ethnic minority Uighur Muslims are allegedly held under the guise of counter-terrorism efforts.
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The Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority has long faced persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, which describes them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, despite many of them tracing their roots back hundreds of years.
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This detailed account of these grave crimes against the Yazidi ethnic minority in Iraq makes it even more egregious that the international community continues to fail to take action against this genocide.
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Craig recently received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol for her climate activism and in 2016 founded Black2Nature, a charity which runs nature camps for black and ethnic minority children.
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Go: With a cast that includes amateur actors from Paris's deprived suburbs, "The Just Assassins" gives ethnic minority actors a chance to shine onstage at one of the city's most hallowed theaters.
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It often targets vulnerable groups like migrant workers — those who stream in from the countryside to fill China's factories — and ethnic minority groups like the largely Muslim Uighurs on China's western frontier.
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Ms. Haley, the first ethnic minority and first woman to be elected as the state's governor, had previously sided with fellow Republicans, who argued that the flag was not a racist symbol.
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Apple said Friday that a massive phone hacking scheme that affected Apple and Android phones targeted Uighurs, a persecuted Muslim ethnic minority group whose people have been imprisoned by the Chinese government.
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A CIA operation then began to train and fight alongside an army taken mostly from the Hmong ethnic minority against the Pathet Lao—translated as "Lao Nation"—who were backed by North Vietnam.
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He champions schooling as a way into the professional and governing class for Afghan minorities — and particularly for his fellow Hazaras, a mostly Shiite ethnic minority that suffered heavily under the Taliban regime.
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In 2015, it the Chinese government cut mobile access for some VPN users in Northwest province Xinjiang, an area that's home to many ethnic minority groups and frequently a testbed for internet censorship.
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Finding a solution to the $3.6 billion Myitsone dam project is important for Suu Kyi who needs China's cooperation in talks with Myanmar's ethnic minority armed groups operating along northern borders with China.
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In Xinjiang, Chinese authorities have installed the equivalent of a 21st-century police state, with the Uighur ethnic minority monitored by electronic spyware, and locked up en masse in prisons and detention camps.
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In 2010, the High Court of Appeal quashed Grainger's planning permission for its impact on ethnic minority communities, and the council's planning office rejected a second application from the developers a year later.
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In a protest led by the Pashtun Tahafuz (Protection) Movement, thousands gathered in Peshawar, Pakistan, last Sunday to demand the release of missing persons and basic human rights for Pakistan's Pashtun ethnic minority.
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Another is underway now in the far western region of Xinjiang, where thousands have been arrested in an attempt to tamp down unrest among Uighurs, an ethnic minority that calls the region home.
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Those who openly joined the protest last week include Sulaiman Gu, a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at the University of Georgia who identifies as a dissident and a Hui, a Muslim ethnic minority.
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But he reminded the Continent of its common values and lent support to Romanian emigrants and a Roma ethnic minority that, in some countries, has again become a target of right-wing vitriol.
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Cheering on the great West Indies or Pakistan teams of the 1980s was a way for ethnic-minority Britons to express their resentment of an England that they felt did not welcome them.
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But it also highlights how common statelessness is in their landlocked corner of Southeast Asia, an impoverished region where a lack of citizenship routinely deprives people from ethnic-minority groups of basic rights.
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Twenty-seven percent of employees in the US identify as belonging to a racial or ethnic minority, and the firm has pledged to get that figure to 30% in the US by 2022.
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Almost 700,000 of the Muslim ethnic minority have crossed the Bangladesh border in the last six months, fleeing what the UN has described as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" by Myanmar troops.
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With the additions, the Starbuck's board would grow to 14 people; would be 29 percent female and 36 percent ethnic minority; and would include a range of ages from millennials to baby boomers.
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The research into ethnic minority experiences of the UK's criminal justice system (CJS) was released as part of the emerging findings of the Lammy Review, a report commissioned by Labour MP David Lammy.
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Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka was at war for decades with ethnic minority Tamil separatists, most of them Hindu, but violence had largely ended since the government victory in the civil war 10 years ago.
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" Co-stars Zendaya, Harrier and Batalon—who all represent ethnic-minority groups—also chimed in on the subject of diversity telling Chica that "that's the way it should be" and exclaimed, "it's about time!
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Finding a solution to the $3.6 billion Myitsone dam project will be important for Suu Kyi who needs China's cooperation in talks with Myanmar's ethnic minority armed groups operating along northern borders with China.
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"Being part of an ethnic minority has taught me that we all have a moral obligation to strive for equality in all aspects of life whether it affects us directly or not," he says.
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But there are concerns within the Muslim community that a prolonged ban could fuel tensions in the religiously-diverse nation that emerged from a civil war with ethnic minority Tamil separatists a decade ago.
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Bahceli's ideas reflect those of a segment of Turkish society fiercely opposed to the idea of an independent Kurdistan and supportive of Iraq's Turkmen ethnic minority, which has historical and cultural ties to Turkey.
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Scanbox has only been used by groups associated with the Chinese government, Fidelis said, and was recently seen on a political site aimed at Uyghurs, an ethnic minority under close government scrutiny in China.
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China has ramped up the use of both human policing and high-tech surveillance in Xinjiang, the far-west region that's the home of the Uighur ethnic minority group and has seen periodic unrest.
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Turkey launched an invasion last week of territory in Northern Syria controlled by the Kurds, an ethnic minority long allied with the United States that played a major role in the fight against ISIS.
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Half of them would not previously have considered a career in policing, over half are female and in urban areas, and 21% identified as being black or ethnic minority—better reflecting the broader population.
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While sectarian violence in mainly Sunni Muslim Afghanistan was previously rare, a series of attacks over recent years, many claimed by Islamic State, have killed hundreds of Shi'ites, many from the Hazara ethnic minority.
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Others moan that it is obsessed with political correctness, and are particularly grumpy about the latest season of "Doctor Who": the Time Lord is now a woman, with two sidekicks from ethnic-minority backgrounds.
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ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatian conservatives campaigning for a change in election laws submitted enough signatures to parliament to call a referendum on reducing the legislative rights of ethnic minority groups, conservative group said on Wednesday.
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An estimated 624,000 Rohingya refugees, a Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since late August to escape oppression and extreme violence from Myanmar's military and Buddhist majority.
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After the incident, Moscow directed its firepower on Turkey-backed rebels, including the Turkmens, who are an ethnic minority of Turkish descent and have emerged as Ankara's favored proxy force, across Idlib and Aleppo.
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The original books were noticeably white and heterosexual, marginalizing its ethnic-minority cast of Cho, Dean, Blaise, Lee, Angelica, Kingsley, as well as twins Parvati and Padma Patil, to the realm of supporting characters.
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In terms of residence, the data indicate that every ethnic minority has become less ghettoised, and that the black Africans, who used to be among the most clustered, are spreading out the most quickly.
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Lum Zawng, Nang Pu, and Zau Jat took part in demonstrations in war-torn Kachin in April, when an army offensive against ethnic minority guerrillas prompted more than 6,000 people to flee their homes.
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But a lot of it comes down to people's lived experience of being bi and how that also relates to intersectional issues such as being disabled, black or ethnic minority, as well as religion.
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Historically, the shortage of child psychiatrists has been most acute among disadvantaged populations, such as racial and ethnic minority youth, as well as youth living in impoverished and rural areas, the study team writes.
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Next up is Danny, a Christian Joseonjok from China's Korean ethnic minority, a closeted gay immigrant in the United States, a devout Christian and a good student — until his first crush brutally humiliates him.
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The 27-year-old is among thousands of Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority from Xinjiang province in western China, who have sought refuge in Turkey after escaping Beijing's brutal crackdown against the group.
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Which means, among other things, that even the cause of defending the rights and interests of ethnic minority groups requires political arguments that touch on other subjects and appeal to other groups of voters.
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A community leader, Mahamad Accord, who did not speak to Sharif but learned about him from the local Somali community, said Sharif was from a Somali ethnic minority and little known in the community.
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In those interviews, Mr. Tashi also praised the leadership of President Xi Jinping and said he hoped Mr. Xi would govern according to the Chinese Constitution, which guarantees autonomous rights for ethnic minority areas.
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Racial and ethnic minority patients with terminal illnesses are much less likely to enter hospice care than their white counterparts—even when controlling for socioeconomic factors such as age, education, income and area population.
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Bulgaria also expelled a Turkish citizen and banned two others from entering the country, after reports a Turkish minister had campaigned for the DOST party that represents Bulgarian Turks, the country's largest ethnic minority.
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Facebook has discovered and removed another coordinated hate campaign operated by the Myanmar military, which has used the service to spread false news and insults about the Rohingya people, Myanmar's mostly Muslim ethnic minority.
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Not only because the London mayoralty is a tough gig, but also because it isn't enough to be London's first mayor from an ethnic minority if your policies don't stand behind those communities, too.
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The surprise climbdown comes as Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the ruling National League for Democracy and the general's daughter, faces rising dissatisfaction in ethnic minority areas ahead of elections set for next year.
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The bans targeted only some of the ethnic minority insurgent groups in Myanmar that have battled for autonomy in conflicts that have raged on and off since shortly after Myanmar's independence from Britain in 1948.
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"We cannot be afraid to call the actions of the Burmese authorities what they appear to be - a brutal, sustained campaign to cleanse the country of an ethnic minority," Haley told the U.N. Security Council.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military opened legal proceedings on Wednesday against three journalists accused of aiding ethnic minority rebels, police said, compounding concern about the erosion or press freedom as the country transitions towards civilian rule.
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A record number of ethnic minority politicians are expected to serve as ministers including Priti Patel, the former aid minister who resigned in 2017 over undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials, and employment minister Alok Sharma.
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The company could become the first target of the Trump administration's desire to punish China for its surveillance and mass detention of the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority, in the northwest region of Xinjiang.
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In recent months, more than 3,22017 Rohingya refugees — a Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar often described as "the most persecuted minority in the world" — have fled oppression and extreme violence in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state.
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Bangkok-based Fortify Rights criticized Thailand's treatment of migrants, including its refusal to allow thousands of Myanmar's ethnic minority Rohingya and Bangladeshis who came by boat last year to escape persecution or poverty to land.
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The agency's five-point plan to encourage people from diverse backgrounds into the creative industries includes working with schools and paying a year's worth of rent for two candidates from ethnic minority or disadvantaged backgrounds.
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BEIJING – Authorities in northwestern China were poised to begin demolition of a mosque Friday despite protests by hundreds of members of the country&aposs Muslim Hui ethnic minority determined to preserve the newly built structure.
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The warning comes as a report by the executive search company Green Park shows the number of FTSE 20.3 businesses with no ethnic minority representation at senior level has fallen to 73 from 27. bit.
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No bank would lend to him, so Lee - a member of Chiang Rai's Akha ethnic minority and the first person in his village to graduate from university - relied on a grant from a Swiss philanthropist.
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That insurgency sought an independent state for Tamils, an ethnic minority in Sri Lanka, before being defeated by the army of the country's Sinhalese majority government at the end of a civil war in 2009.
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While in exile, he has formed a loose coalition with Atta Mohammad Noor, one of the leaders of the mainly Tajik Jamiat-i Islami party and Mohammad Mohaqiq, a leader of the Hazara ethnic minority.
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Fighting between government forces and ethnic minority Kachin and other insurgents has been eclipsed in media coverage by the plight of nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since last August.
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The 22019 genocide in Rwanda against the Tutsi ethnic minority created profound structural, social and economic destruction, and many health professionals were either killed or forced to flee the country, Small and her colleagues write.
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Tom Goyda, a Wells Fargo spokesman, says that the bank was the number one mortgage originator in "lending to ethnic minority borrowers in the Philadelphia area," citing comparative Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data from 2015.
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Activists have released a map showing the suspected locations of nearly 500 prisons and camps that China is using to lock up the Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority in the country's western Xinjiang region.
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Lois S. Gray, who as a professor and mentor for seven decades delivered college-trained women, immigrants and members of racial and ethnic minority groups into the ranks of American organized labor, died on Sept.
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On the Ground The Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority fleeing Myanmar's far western Rakhine State, have fled into Bangladesh by the hundreds of thousands, turning informal refugee camps there into a sprawling and desperate city.
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Somewhere on the massive site, glampers were raising glasses of Krug to their lips in centrally heated tepees, but you can be sure those lips were unlikely to belong to someone with ethnic minority heritage.
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Newly-leaked government documents offer the first official look at the mass brainwashing and imprisonment of the Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority group in the western China region of Xinjiang, implemented by the Communist Party.
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But Rashidi didn't miss a beat, asking Trump about U.S. relations with the Kurds and American commitments against regional powers—Iran and Turkey—that always seemed to want to steamroll the ethnic minority into oblivion.
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Rohingya activists, who had come from all over the world to the Hague, reacted with joy to the unanimous ruling which also explicitly recognized their ethnic minority as a protected group under the Genocide Convention.
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Other dissenting voices come from Myanmar's myriad ethnic minority groups, who have criticized Suu Kyi – from the Bamar Buddhist majority – for failing to keep a promise to end fighting with armed groups seeking greater autonomy.
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The protest comes after midfielder Mesut Ozil of English soccer club Arsenal caused a furore in China after he criticised the country's policies toward the Muslim ethnic minority in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang.
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In the field of science, ethnic minority people have historically been overlooked and may not be as well known to the public as famous white scientists such as code breaker Alan Turing or physicist Stephen Hawking.
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Sayed Jamal Mubarez, from Afghanistan's long-marginalized Hazara ethnic minority, won viewers over with lyrics capturing both the hope and despair of young people living through a war against Taliban militants now in its sixteenth year.
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Ankara also sees itself as protector of Iraq's Turkmen ethnic minority, with particular focus on the oil city of Kirkuk which Kurds seized in 2014 as Iraqi troops retreated in the face of Islamic State advances.
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"When racial and ethnic minority individuals do receive mental health care, it is often of lower quality than that received by their white, non-Latino counterparts," concluded a recent study published in the Journal of Counseling.
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Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in Dasht-e-Barchi, home to many members of the mainly Shi'ite Muslim Hazara ethnic minority which has been targeted repeatedly in the past by the militant Sunni group.
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Thanks to such policies, Xinjiang, Ningxia and other ethnic-minority areas in China have achieved rapid development in recent years and local people of all ethnic groups are living and working in harmony and enjoying stability.
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A former managing director at Deutsche Bank, Javid is the first member of an ethnic minority to serve as home secretary, the British equivalent to a minister of the interior with responsibility for immigration and security.
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After it seized power in 1949, the party recognised Korean-Chinese as an ethnic minority and gave them special rights in their enclaves of Yanbian and the county of Changbai, both in Jilin province (see map).
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As of July 2016, there were 57.7 million people of Hispanic or Latin American descent living in the United States, according to the United States Census Bureau, making them the largest ethnic minority in the country.
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Currently, Triplebyte's pool of candidates is only slightly more diverse than the average company (about 30% are women or of an underrepresented ethnic minority), though Taggar expects its upcoming outreach and expansion efforts to improve this.
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The family, like that of the author, are members of a long-persecuted ethnic minority, the Karen; the plot centers on a daughter, who, in 1956 becomes the country's first beauty queen amid a civil war.
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The lawsuit notes that Rohingya Muslims have been subjected to persecution for decades in Myanmar, which denies that the Rohingya even exist as an established ethnic minority, despite hundreds of years of history in the country.
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While controversial for its failures to take into account ethnic minority names and the LGBTQ community, Facebook's strict adherence to real names seems to make it easier for that social network to police its worst trolls.
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Ruling against the order in September, Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said it would violate the human rights of residents from ethnic minority backgrounds who would likely be cut off from support networks built in the area.
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"We advocate a heart healthy diet and lots of exercise in all individuals, regardless of race/ethnicity and body weight, but especially in those who are members of racial/ethnic minority populations," Gujral said by email.
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A Uighur human rights group says that China has more than 500 involuntary detention centers, prisons, and so-called "reeducation camps" in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, where millions of Muslims and ethnic minority Uighurs live.
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Abdullah, who is supported by ethnic minority leaders including Noor who fought against the Taliban's hard-line Islamist regime in the 1990s, formed a coalition government with President Ashraf Ghani after a disputed 2014 presidential election.
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The dramatic rise in support for Mr. Casey, 61, a businessman, followed the release of a podcast interview in which he criticized the Irish Travellers' official status as an ethnic minority, recognized by Parliament last year.
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A jump in the number of journalists imprisoned in China, to 47 compared with 38 reported a year ago, reflected what the group described as China's crackdown on the Uighur ethnic minority in the Xinjiang region.
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He is a civilian administrator, and part of an ethnic minority, the Rakhine, who have themselves long been persecuted by the military and the country's Bamar Buddhist majority, but joined in the campaign against the Rohingya.
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The ruling Liberals are competing for left-of-center votes with the New Democrats of Jagmeet Singh, a practising Sikh, who is the first person from ethnic minority descent to lead a major party in Canada.
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The Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, were escaping a coordinated military campaign of slaughter, rape and the burning of their villages that some United Nations officials have said may amount to genocide.
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Their reporting for Reuters exposed a massacre at the village of Inn Din in northern Rakhine State in September 2017, where 10 men from the Rohingya ethnic minority were murdered and thrown in a mass grave.
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"We guarantee the legitimate rights and interests of all ethnicities and prohibit the discrimination and oppression against any ethnic groups," Zhang Yijiong, a senior Communist Party official in charge ethnic minority affairs, told reporters last October.
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"During this time, members of ethnic minority groups were killed or injured by gunshot, often while fleeing, or by soldiers using large-bladed weapons; others were burned to death in their own houses," the statement said.
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Suu Kyi's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) lost a seat in Kachin by-elections last year and party officials have voiced concern about their popularity in ethnic minority areas ahead of the 2020 general election.
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In addition, on Monday the U.S. placed 28 Chinese public security bureaus and technology companies on a trade blacklist over Beijing's treatment of Uygur Muslims and other predominantly Muslim members of ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang.
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The popularity of the phrase "say her name," which has become associated with a social movement, illustrates how the identities of ethnic minority murder victims continue to matter, but this problem of recognition is nothing new.
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Cover: A Rohingya ethnic minority man looking at Facebook on his cell phone at a temporary makeshift camp after crossing over from Myanmar into the Bangladesh side of the border, near Cox's Bazar's Palangkhali, Friday, Sept.
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The Sunni group Jaish al Adl (Army of Justice), which says it seeks greater rights and better living conditions for the ethnic minority Baluchis, claimed responsibility for the attack, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
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"TAEC simply discovered your company's wrongdoing, and as a supporter of the cultural heritage and livelihoods of the Oma and other ethnic minority groups, we felt it our responsibility to get involved," TAEC wrote to Max Mara.
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Barrow aides say the head of the army has pledged support to him but Gambians have voiced private concerns that a faction from Jammeh's Jola ethnic minority might protect him, potentially provoking broader conflict along ethnic lines.
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YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar military court has jailed seven soldiers for five years each with hard labor for murdering five ethnic minority villagers in June, state media said on Friday, in a rare prosecution of military personnel.
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Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), which says it seeks greater rights and better living conditions for the ethnic minority Baluchis, claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in February that killed 27 members of Revolutionary Guards.
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To publicly question or critically discuss the political motivations behind these quotas, especially as an ethnic minority, is to contend with the threat of arrest and imprisonment under the Sedition Act, a holdover from British colonial rule.
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More likely, China is attempting to quell international criticism of its massive network of internment camps, which are estimated to hold at least 1 million Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority concentrated in the northwestern Xinjiang region.
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In addition to enduring abuse for wearing Islamic clothing like headscarves and face veils, Muslim women often face a triple economic disadvantage, according to a 2016 parliamentary report, being female, Muslim and from an ethnic minority group.
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The military said three people were killed in the violence, but the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), which was co-founded by Dawar and campaigns for civil rights for ethnic minority Pashtun people, said troops killed 13 civilians.
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The Nobel Peace Prize winner has been silent as military rulers of her native Myanmar ravaged the Rohingya, an ethnic minority group on the country's western border, in a brutal campaign the United Nations recently deemed genocide.
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"We guarantee the legitimate rights and interests of all ethnicities and prohibit the discrimination and oppression against any ethnic groups," Zhang Yijiong, a senior Communist Party official in charge of ethnic minority affairs, told reporters last October.
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Drone footage posted anonymously on YouTube last month appears to show hundreds of male prisoners tied up and wearing blindfolds in China's autonomous Xinjiang, home to millions of China's ethnic minority Uighurs currently housed in detention centers.
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The best way to effect change when not in a position to achieve it by legislative means — as in the case of a political or ethnic minority — is to become a model of virtue and right conduct.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Thousands of people rallied on Monday in Myanmar's war-torn Kachin State to demand humanitarian access for villagers trapped by fighting between government forces and ethnic minority insurgents that has displaced more than 5,000 people.
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While U.S. patients from racial and ethnic minority groups have long been less likely than white people to receive kidneys from live donors, the widening gap found in the study was a shock, Purnell said by email.
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The comptroller will ask directors of 56 companies to adopt a version of the N.F.L.'s Rooney Rule, which requires the league's teams to interview ethnic minority candidates for head coach roles or other senior operational positions.
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But the nation's push to do so on behalf of facial recognition and surveillance industries that it built to surveil and subjugate the nation's Uighur ethnic minority is casting its standards efforts in a new, harsher light.
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The report also emphasizes that while the overall amount of black and ethnic minority women reporting harassment is the same as the average (52 percent), they are more likely to experience harassment that relates to their ethnicity.
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"Burmese security forces have engaged in violent campaigns against ethnic minority communities across Burma, including ethnic cleansing, massacres, sexual assault, extrajudicial killings, and other serious human rights abuses," said Sigal Mandelker, Treasury undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
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Sunni group Jaish al Adl (Army of Justice), which says it seeks greater rights and better living conditions for the ethnic minority Baluchis, claimed responsibility for the attack that killed 27 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sexual violence committed by Myanmar troops against Rohingya women and girls in 2017 indicated the military's genocidal intent to destroy the mainly Muslim ethnic minority, United Nations investigators said in a report released on Thursday.
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Last September, at the tail of former President Obama's second term, roughly one-quarter of political appointees at the Department of Agriculture identified as a racial or ethnic minority, according to the Office of Personnel Management's official data.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar will drop charges against dozens of ethnic minority protesters who demonstrated against a statue of independence hero General Aung San and will hold talks with them, state media said on Wednesday, offering a rare concession.
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In the final case, China's police force used satellite bandwidth to quell protests in Xinjiang, an area where the government has been sharply criticized for the forced relocation of of Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority in the province.
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As hard as this is to stomach, it's likely the campaign team considered the fact that a woman or racial/ethnic minority would invite greater media attention alongside questions, veiled and not, about capability and fairness and intelligence.
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Whereas a majority of Labour, Lib Dem and Scottish National Party members want more of their MPs to be women, disabled, working class, ethnic minority, young or gay, this is a minority position among Conservative members (see chart).
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BEIJING (Reuters) - With one national language often spoken poorly and thousands of regional dialects and ethnic minority tongues, China is having to employ multilingual officials as it embarks on its latest round of environment inspections across the country.
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Siphan said he was referring to a Twitter posting last month by U.S. President Donald Trump telling four ethnic minority Democratic congresswomen to "go back" to the "the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came".
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of Germans from ethnic minority backgrounds have shared their experiences of discrimination on social media, after soccer player Mesut Ozil quit the national team saying he faced "racism and disrespect" because of his Turkish roots.
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The Kachin Independence Army (KIA), one of Myanmar's most powerful ethnic minority insurgent forces, has regularly clashed with government troops in the mountainous region bordering China and India since 2011, when a 17-year-old ceasefire broke down.
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The protest was organized on Saturday in the main city of Yangon as a show of support by about 300 people for victims of fighting between government forces and ethnic minority guerrillas in Kachin State in northern Myanmar.
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Can it maintain its crucial role as the representative of the least powerful, the marginalized, the most oppressed, many of whom belong to disadvantaged racial and ethnic minority groups — those on the bottom rungs of the socioeconomic ladder?
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YANGON (Reuters) - Ethnic minority rebels in Myanmar have released a lawmaker held hostage for two months in a bid to reduce tension in the war-torn western state of Rakhine, a human rights group and the rebels said.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's anti-discrimination watchdog fined a city mayor on Wednesday for a speech inciting hatred after he suggested would-be parents should be screened and the rights of the Roma ethnic minority to have children restricted.
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New York (CNN)Hackers associated with the Chinese government compromised websites frequented by ethnic minority Uyghurs earlier this year, programming them to install monitoring implants to spy on the phones of users that visited them, according to researchers.
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Security forces there are fighting a desperate, bloody campaign against the Taliban, and many fear that if the United States reaches a deal with the insurgents, it could jeopardize human rights and the safety of ethnic minority groups.
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"If you form a minority—[whether it's] an ethnic minority or LGBTQ—going to a city means you'll be more likely to meet people who are like-minded and share the same values, the same interests," he says.
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" He continued, "It is clear that representing this character in a culturally accurate way holds significance for people, and that to neglect this responsibility would continue a worrying tendency to obscure ethnic minority stories and voices in the Arts.
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It did announce last month that it would take down misinformation that stokes real-world violence, a policy update largely attributed to the attacks on ethnic minority populations in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and India, the New York Times reported.
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This is not about education, but about the systemic disadvantages ethnic minority workers face in the UK." "The harsh reality is that at any level of education, black and Asian workers are getting paid less than their white counterparts.
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People who identified as a racial or ethnic minority were 26% of our survey responses; EEOC data show that around 29% of tech workers identify as Asian American, African American, or Hispanic (Hispanic people can be of any race).
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During and immediately after the 26-year conflict between rebels from the ethnic minority Tamil community and the Sinhalese-majority government, intelligence officials were accused of involvement in the abduction, assault and disappearance of critics, journalists and other civilians.
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YANGON (Reuters) - More than 2,000 people have been forced to flee from their homes, and 19 have been killed, since fighting broke out between government troops and ethnic minority insurgents in northern Myanmar last week, government officials said Wednesday.
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The Global Times said that local officials in the town of Weizhou in Ningxia, a region that&aposs home to many ethnic minority Hui Muslims, must act against what it described as an illegal expansion of a religious building.
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The spat did not hurt the chances of Denk, a party supported by Dutch Turks, which looked set to win three seats, becoming the first ever ethnic minority party in parliament, in a possible sign of deepening ethnic division.
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An HDZ/Most coalition would need another small party or ethnic minority deputies on board to secure a parliamentary majority, and analysts say it could be stable provided Most accepts the limits of its influence as a junior partner.
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Zau Seng, a member of the Kachin ethnic minority from northern Myanmar, also known as Burma, died while filming fighting outside the town of Tal Tamr, according to the Christian group he worked with, who blamed Turkish-backed forces.
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The campaigners have also argued that the statue is a symbol of racist attitudes that black and ethnic minority students still encounter at Oxford today, and that removing it would demonstrate a commitment by the university to combat racism.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court on Monday approved warrants to arrest four suspects in the killing of a prominent ethnic minority rights activist, including the former head of a national park where he went missing in 2014, police said.
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Kurds are a large ethnic minority in Syria, and they have been a US ally in the fight against ISIS there, playing a major role in driving ISIS out of the northern Syrian city of Manbij earlier this month.
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All of Us could help make a dent in the medical research diversity problem as 80% of the program's current participants are from traditionally underrepresented groups in medical research — and over half are from racial or ethnic minority groups.
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He said his new group will provide a vehicle for well-off donors, particularly those from racial and ethnic minority groups, to show their support for Booker, the first African-American elected to the US Senate from New Jersey.
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Last month, three journalists covering an event organized by an ethnic minority rebel group, that authorities have designated an "illegal organization", were detained by the military and later arrested on suspicion of breaching a colonial-era Unlawful Associations Act.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - By picking fellow Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's pick rounded out his early Cabinet choices with his first woman and ethnic minority.
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For the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD), finding a solution is critical, as China is Myanmar's largest trade partner, and as party officials try to shore up popularity in ethnic minority areas ahead of the 2020 general election.
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He said the two men had merely been "doing their job reporting on the atrocities being committed on the Rohingya people," a reference to mass killings and ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya ethnic minority near Myanmar's border with Bangladesh.
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" Rushanara Ali, one of the lawmakers targeted, told BBC radio, "Ethnic-minority and Muslim M.P.s are no strangers to threats from extremist groups, but the level of far-right violent threats and far-right activity has become very worrying.
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Myanmar's long history of exclusion and violence toward the Rohingya has typically been framed by the question of who counts as a legitimate ethnic minority and who is instead to be judged a foreigner (and thus an illegal migrant).
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Despite being the largest ethnic minority in the United States and making up nearly 703 percent of the population, Latino roles in digital scripted series constitute a measly 270 percent, a figure that's even lower for broadcast and cable.
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All of Kilomet109's dyeing, weaving, batik drawing and calendering (a finishing process) is done by nearly three dozen women artisans in four separate ethnic-minority communities across northern Vietnam, and much of the work is surprisingly labor-intensive.
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The danger is that she falls between two stools — depicted by the military as too weak on "national security" while being seen in the eyes of the international community as too weak in her defense of an ethnic minority.
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The report conservatively estimates that around 80,000 people, mostly Uyghurs—a Muslim ethnic minority in western China that has been subject to oppression from Beijing—were forcibly moved from Xinjiang province to work in factories between 2017 and 2019.
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Others were quick to point out that the qipao, as it is known in China, was introduced by the Manchus, an ethnic minority group from China's northeast — implying that the garment was itself appropriated by the majority Han Chinese.
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"Burmese security forces have engaged in violent campaigns against ethnic minority communities across Burma, including ethnic cleansing, massacres, sexual assault, extrajudicial killings, and other serious human rights abuses," said Sigal Mandelker, undersecretary of Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence.
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Meanwhile, the Pew Center reports that Latinos are expected for the first time to be the nation's largest racial or ethnic minority group in a U.S. presidential election, with a record 32 million projected to be eligible to vote.
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As a clinical psychologist and assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, I conduct community based research on barriers and facilitators of mental health service use among low-income, racial/ethnic minority adults.
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According to the US State Department, up to 2 million mostly Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic minority groups have been detained in the camps, a system that former detainees said was created to eradicate their language and cultural heritage.
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The State Department said it has already cut off travel waivers allowing current and former senior military leaders into the country and was considering further actions to impose economic measures against those responsible for atrocities against Myanmar's ethnic minority.
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General Dostum, the leader of the Uzbek ethnic minority in Afghanistan and a bitter foe of the Taliban, had just returned to Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan, after a personal trip to Uzbekistan.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A skull fragment found in a scorched oil drum dumped in a reservoir in Thailand belongs to a prominent ethnic minority rights activist who went missing in 2014, Thailand's Department of Special Investigation (DSI) said on Tuesday.
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But in a sign of conciliation, lawmakers picked as deputy speaker U Ti Khun Myat, a member of the Kachin ethnic minority and a representative of the military-affiliated Union Solidarity and Development Party, which is now the party in opposition.
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The military accused the three men of breaching a colonial-era Unlawful Associations Act after they covered an event organized by the Ta'ang National Liberation Army, a group seeking autonomy for the Ta'ang ethnic minority that regularly clashes with government troops.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan/KABUL (Reuters) - Thousands of members of Afghanistan's mainly Shi'ite Hazara ethnic minority have fled their homes in the central province of Ghazni as the Taliban have pressed into two previously safe districts, officials and witnesses said on Wednesday.
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As an ethnic minority, I'm horrified that there are thousands of people in this country who think that I don't belong here, and that there are millions more, including the new president, who are not inclined to stand up for me.
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Applicants would have to be born in Thailand to parents from ethnic minority groups, registered by the Interior Ministry and have lived in Thailand for at least 15 years, or be born in Thailand to foreign residents and be university graduates.
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In contrast, the Hui are counted as an ethnic minority only because it says so on their hukou (household-registration) documents and because centuries ago their ancestors came as missionaries and merchants from Persia, the Mongol courts or South-East Asia.
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People of Haitian descent make up by far the largest ethnic minority in the Dominican Republic, though estimates of their numbers vary widely, from half a million to more than a million, out of the country's population of 10.4 million.
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"Muslims from other parts of China who come here, especially from Xinjiang, can't believe how free we are, and they don't want to leave," he said, referring to the far-west borderlands that are home to China's beleaguered Uighur ethnic minority.
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The system also uses its facial recognition systems to detect ethnicities and labels them — such as "汉族" for Han Chinese, the main ethnic group of China — and also "维族" — or Uyghur Muslims, an ethnic minority under persecution by Beijing.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sajid Javid became Britain's first ethnic minority finance minister on Wednesday, capping off an unlikely rise from a humble start on a street dubbed the country's worst to holding the purse strings for the world's fifth-biggest economy.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Six Myanmar nationals deported from Singapore over alleged links to an ethnic minority insurgent group were remanded in custody in Yangon on Friday, a court spokesman said, as relatives of the accused said they were being held incommunicado.
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Because of recent crises like the one involving the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority forced to flee Myanmar due to persecution, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi expects that number to increase when UNHCR publishes its annual figures in June.
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Seeking to address this and give everyone equal access to complain about pollution, the Environment Ministry is employing not only ethnic minority language speakers but also those who can communicate in Chinese dialects, which are often mutually incomprehensible with Mandarin.
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In 2009, Cambodia sent home 20 ethnic minority Uighurs, from China's troubled far western region of Xinjiang, despite objections from the U.N. refugee agency and rights groups, which said they feared for the safety of the Uighurs if sent back.
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It had been unusual for Chinese government statements to specifically target an ethnic minority, but a recent series of statements has come as authorities step up security measures to combat what they see as a rising threat from Islamist extremism.
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Mr. Isa, 48, is a leader of the World Uyghur Congress, a Munich-based group that advocates self-determination for Xinjiang, an expansive region in western China that is home to a large population of Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar authorities on Friday visited a suspected shallow grave in the country's north that residents said contained the bodies of two ethnic minority men who were detained by soldiers in January, a police officer and a community leader said.
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In the wake of rising brutality against Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, China proposed a three-point plan to resolve a crisis that threatens to bring a return of U.S. sanctions to the former military dictatorship.
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Pointing to the disproportionate rate at which HIV/AIDS impacts racial and ethnic minority communities in the US, she helped establish the Minority AIDS Initiative in 1998, and has since continued to fight for the program to receive adequate national funding.
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Photographs from the region — a patchwork of farms and home to many Kurds, a large ethnic minority in Iran — posted on the internet showed collapsed buildings, cars destroyed by rubble and people sleeping in the streets in fear of aftershocks.
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In consecutive Twitter posts, Mr. Pence said he as "deeply troubled" by the sentencing of journalists "for doing their job reporting on the atrocities being committed on the Rohingya people," a reference to the mass killings of the ethnic minority.
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WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department announced Friday that it had imposed economic sanctions on Burmese security forces for what American officials said was their role in "ethnic cleansing" against Rohingya Muslims and "widespread human rights abuses" against other ethnic minority groups.
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"Burmese security forces have engaged in violent campaigns against ethnic minority communities across Burma, including ethnic cleansing, massacres, sexual assault, extrajudicial killings and other serious human rights abuses," Sigal P. Mandelker, a senior Treasury Department official, said in a statement.
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Read more: A Rohingya refugee recalls her escape from Myanmar The incident comes as the United Nations announced Thursday that 223,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar since August, when Myanmar's security forces unleashed a ruthless crackdown on the ethnic minority group.
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Mr. Pompeo was asked on CBS News's "Face the Nation" about whether the administration might punish Chinese officials for the detention of hundreds of thousands to millions of ethnic minority Muslims in camps in Xinjiang, a vast region in northwest China.
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In 2017, the military set off an intense international backlash by carrying out what the United Nations has called a genocide of the Rohingya people, a Muslim ethnic minority whose members had lived in the western state of Rakhine for generations.
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When Ms. Thao founded Kilomet109 in 2012, she said, the idea was to merge what she had learned about so-called ethical fashion in design school with an appreciation for the ethnic-minority traditions she had explored as a journalist.
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But mounting evidence suggests a system of forced labor is emerging from the camps, a development likely to intensify international condemnation of China's drastic efforts to control and indoctrinate a Muslim ethnic minority population of more than 20183 million in Xinjiang.
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"They told me I had to go to a more isolated place this time," he told Reuters by phone from Yunnan province in far southwestern China, a popular destination renowned for its scenery and the culture of its ethnic minority groups.
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Named by the Lonely Planet guide for independent travelers as the best country to visit in 2254, Sri Lanka had rebuilt its image as a tropical paradise after crushing a long-running separatist insurgency by ethnic minority Tamils a decade ago.
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She now lives in Hanoi, where she has formed a band with Quyen Thien Dac, a jazz saxophonist, and Nguyen Duc Minh, a multi-instrumentalist whose compositions are inspired by the music of some of Vietnam's 53 ethnic minority groups.
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China has sought for decades to restrict the practice of Islam and maintain an iron grip in Xinjiang, a region almost as big as Alaska where more than half the population of 24 million belongs to Muslim ethnic minority groups.
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"I think any of us that read this recent story in The New York Times, it just had to tear your heart out," Mr. Tillerson said of reports of widespread atrocities being committed in Myanmar against the country's Muslim ethnic minority.
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The testimony on Monday by the journalist, U Wa Lone, came more than half a year after he and a Reuters colleague were arrested in Yangon, Myanmar's major city, while investigating violence against the persecuted Rohingya ethnic minority, Reuters reported.
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Just this week was saw China stage a bigger freak-out about The New York Times&apos stunning and sickening report about violence and genocide in China&aposs Xinjiang province, where the government is targeting the mostly-Muslim Uighur ethnic minority.
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Apted has been frank about the problems with the aleatory, impulsive nature of the original 1964 casting: only four were women; only one represented an ethnic minority; and all but two were drawn from the relative extremes of the class divide.
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From Beijing's perspective, Zulhumar Isaac, above, a Uighur woman from the region of Xinjiang, grew up in a model ethnic-minority family: Her mother was a Communist Party cadre, and her father worked at a newspaper that toed the official line.
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Lee had planned to use her visit to find out procedures for the return of Rohingya refugees, and to investigate increased fighting in Kachin State and Shan State in northern Myanmar, where the army is battling autonomy-seeking ethnic minority insurgents.
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Today, her image around the world is in tatters, marred by her perceived mishandling of the Rohingya crisis, which has seen hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim ethnic minority people flee a brutal crackdown by the military in northwestern Rakhine state.
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Half of the dramatists on The Guardian's list, and more than a third on The Times's, were women, with members of ethnic minority groups making up more than a fifth (The Guardian) and a fourth (The Times) of those chosen.
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"We cannot be afraid to call the actions of the Burmese authorities what they appear to be — a brutal, sustained campaign to cleanse the country of an ethnic minority," Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, told the Security Council.
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First investigation into police brutality It's the first time the government has announced an investigation into police brutality against the Rohingya ethnic minority in the restive Rakhine State since the area was put under lockdown following an attack on border guards in October.
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"This makes us particularly sensitive to and aware of what happens to those who do not share the prevailing opinion, belong to an ethnic minority, want to practise their religion or campaign non-violently and peacefully for their ideas and beliefs," Steinmeier said.
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In data submitted to the committee from 28503 of the 22020 biggest banks, including Goldman Sachs, Capital One and Morgan Stanley, only 29 percent of senior executives were female and 20 percent were from a racial or ethnic minority group in 2018.
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Museum visitors in Europe and America are still overwhelmingly well-educated, white, middle-aged and middle-class, though London's V&A proudly points out that last year 19% of the visits made to its three museums were by people from ethnic-minority backgrounds.
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A President Hillary Clinton would be a huge advance as far as the adage "you've got to be it, to see it" goes; her challenge is to encourage and involve black and ethnic minority women by creating a diverse and intersectional leadership team.
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Chinese border agents have been installing spyware on phones from tourists who enter the country through certain crossings in the Xinjiang region, an area where China is known to be conducting intensive surveillance of the largely Muslim ethnic minority groups who live there.
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The erroneous publication of the photographs comes amid a series of government steps against what it has seen as media abuses, including a report on army activity in an ethnic minority guerrilla zone and the flying of a drone in the capital, Naypyitaw.
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The party saw its share of the ethnic minority vote fall from 24% in 2015 to 19% in 2017, a drop that may have cost it 40 seats in the election and certainly sounds an alarm bell in a fast-diversifying society.
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Those who use Google to search for information on human rights violations—including the pervasive, forced detainment of hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority residents of China's Xinjiang region—will find only whitewashed accounts that provide cover for the government's abusive campaigns.
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The network attributes the underrepresentation of minorities to a number of factors, including structural racism and exclusion, a failure by parties to elevate minority candidates to the top of their lists, discrimination in voting and a low number of ethnic minority candidates.
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When someone brought up the fact that Peter Parker's group of high school pals were all from ethnic minority groups (his classmates include Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, and Tony Revolori) Pascal offered up a very glib, very succinct reason for the casting.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's ethnic minority groups lifted a four-month-old blockade along a major trading point with India on Monday, saying it didn't want ordinary people to suffer anymore, but vowed to carry on with its campaign against the new constitution.
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Already Labour's political monopoly of such voters is breaking down, as ethnic-minority Britons move out of the city centres into middle-class suburbs: Labour's lead over the Tories among ethnic minorities fell from 52 points in 2010 to 19 in 2015.
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The Republican president, in a series of Twitter posts, directly tied his criticism of Representative Elijah Cummings and Sharpton as well as his ongoing attacks on four racial and ethnic minority Democratic congresswomen dubbed the "squad" to his 2020 re-election bid.
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Even using the word Rohingya is controversial: the Myanmar government and much of the population regard the ethnic minority as illegal Bengali immigrants, and refuse to call them "Rohingya," despite many being able to trace their roots in the country back centuries.
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Thousands of Afghans, almost all of them Shiite Muslims from the Hazara ethnic minority, have fought in Syria in the past few years, serving in brigades supporting the government of President Bashar al-Assad, according to their relatives and commanders in Syria.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon on Tuesday to disperse a protest over a statue of independence hero General Aung San that is opposed by members of the Karenni ethnic minority, police and a protest leader said.
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Afghanistan: Members of the Hazara ethnic minority, most of whom are Shiite Muslims and are considered heretics by the Taliban, fear they will once again be the target of a massacre if current peace talks bring the insurgents back into the country's government.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar has put in place measures to protect Rohingya Muslims, a spokesman for the ruling party said on Friday, shrugging off an order from the International Court of Justice a day earlier to stop genocidal acts against the ethnic minority.
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The commission, whose annual report documents China's rights abuses, also called on Mr. Trump to invoke the Global Magnitsky Act and impose sanctions on Chinese officials deemed responsible for the repression of Muslims, many of them members of the Uighur ethnic minority.
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Why it matters: The speech comes days after the House voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill pushing for sanctions on China over its mass detention of the ethnic minority, as Congress continues to pressure U.S.-based organizations that may be complicit.
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But the process dragged on for weeks as the president-elect's team debated whether it would be better off choosing someone from a different part of the country or selecting an ethnic minority to balance out an overwhelmingly white, male and wealthy cabinet.
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First, it is becoming increasingly clear to the U.S. that Ethiopia, one of the more stable countries in the Horn of Africa, is slowly sliding towards an ethic civil war as an entrenched repressive ethnic minority regime shuts down all political space.
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The issue was raised following a high profile case in which a 17-year-old user in New Jersey, Feroza Aziz, was locked out of her account after she posted a viral video criticizing the Chinese government's treatment of the Uighur ethnic minority.
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McConnell, whose Republicans control majorities in both houses of Congress, repeated earlier criticism of a resolution introduced in the U.S. Senate urging Suu Kyi to do more for Myanmar's ethnic minority Rohingya population, and lessening the chance that any such measure could pass.
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BEIJING — Turkey has called China's mass repression of its Uighur Muslim ethnic minority a "great shame for humanity" and has urged the Chinese government to close detention camps estimated to hold a million people, a rare rebuke from a majority-Muslim country.
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She speaks several languages, actually, in addition to her impeccable English born of years of international school systems in Singapore and the UK. Dressed in a plain black tee, she hardly fits the stereotypes that most Burmese harbor about the Wa ethnic minority.
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So Husain, rightly, pressed Aung San Suu Kyi on a political challenge she was not handling well: acts of large-scale ethnic cleansing, often abetted or encouraged by government forces, against an ethnic minority known as the Rohingya, who are also Muslim.
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"It is clear that representing this character in a culturally accurate way holds significance for people, and that to neglect this responsibility would continue a worrying tendency to obscure ethnic minority stories and voices in the arts," Skrein wrote in a note on Twitter.
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Xinhua said on Monday that Chen would move to Xinjiang as its party boss, another unruly part of the country, due to what the government says is a concerted Islamist-backed campaign of violence in a region with a large ethnic minority Muslim population.
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"Our research shows that black and ethnic minority workers continue to face huge and highly damaging pay penalties in the workplace, even when you account for their age, place of work, qualifications and the kinds of jobs they do," she said in an email.
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"Burmese security forces have engaged in violent campaigns against ethnic minority communities across Burma, including ethnic cleansing, massacres, sexual assault, extrajudicial killings, and other serious human rights abuses," said Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Sigal Mandelker, using an alternative name for Myanmar.
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Turkey's foreign ministry issued a statement Saturday calling on China to end the mass detention of the country's Uighur Muslim ethnic minority, becoming one of the first Muslim-majority nations to publicly condemn what are considered by many to be 21st century concentration camps.
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The European Union is worried the return of Mahinda Rajapaksa, as prime minister, could derail halting progress made toward national reconciliation following a war with ethnic minority Tamil separatists that killed tens of thousands, many during the final stages under his watch as president.
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With help from the US embassy in Laos, the CIA and US Air Force fought an aerial war, leaving the ground war to the Royal Lao Government, and enlisting many Hmong (an ethnic minority in Laos) to fight and die on behalf of the West.
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From the birther claims, overtly calling for Hillary to be jailed for her crimes when she was not charged with any, to the gross stereotyping of just about any ethnic minority he can think of, Trump made just this type of pseudo-information headline news.
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Avoids saying 'Rohingya' One of the biggest challenges facing Pope Francis before he had even set foot in Myanmar was whether he would say the word "Rohingya" when referring to the ethnic minority that has fled southern western Rakhine State en masse to neighboring Bangladesh.
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Former democracy activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi has come in for intense international criticism for her handling of the crisis, that has seen hundreds of thousands of Rohingya -- a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority not recognized by Myanmar -- flee into neighboring Bangladesh.
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Given their anti-Latino immigrant agendas and lack of sympathy for the plight of immigrants, if either Rubio or Cruz manage to become the Republican nominee, how will the winner regain the trust and confidence of Latinos, as the largest ethnic minority in the country?
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The attack on peaceful protesters in Kabul — who were mostly from the Hazara ethnic minority — stirred an international outcry, in part because it was the first time that the Islamic State's leadership in Syria had claimed responsibility for such a deadly strike in Afghanistan.
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JUBA (Reuters) - The president of South Sudan has replaced army chief Paul Malong with a general who is a member of an ethnic minority, the defense minister said on Tuesday, after a slew of resignations by senior generals alleging tribal bias and war crimes.
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A growing anti-war youth movement, which in recent months has spread to various parts of the country, has exposed frustration with Suu Kyi's struggle to fulfil her promise to end decades of war by autonomy-seeking ethnic minority guerrillas in lawless border lands.
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A report published last year in Science Magazine detailed how the amber is mined in a state where Myanmar's military has long fought another ethnic minority, the Kachin, and how amber gets smuggled into China, where it can fetch high prices, potentially fueling that conflict.
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She was concerned at indications that voters with racist or far-right views might be attracted to one of them, Mr. Peter Casey, who caused controversy last week when he made what were widely perceived as pejorative remarks about Irish Travellers, a recognized ethnic minority.
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An article from The Global Times, a stridently nationalistic tabloid controlled by the party, criticized the The New York Times's coverage of the coronavirus outbreak, the monthslong antigovernment protests in Hong Kong, and the Chinese authorities' internment of ethnic-minority Muslims in far western Xinjiang.
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Such a dead end is beyond the comprehension of Hamid Amini and Ali Azimi, two 18-year-olds from Afghanistan who made their way to Indonesia as unaccompanied minors in 2014 and 2015, after fleeing attacks by the Taliban against their ethnic minority Hazara communities.
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From the Chinese government's perspective, Zulhumar Isaac, above, a Uighur woman from the far-western Xinjiang region, grew up in a model ethnic-minority family: Her mother was a Communist Party cadre, and her father worked at a newspaper that toed the party line.
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Since the operation to take back Mosul began last year, approximately 180 women, girls and children from the Yazidi ethnic minority who were captured in 2014 by the Islamic State, or ISIS, have been liberated, according to Iraq's Bureau for the Rescue of Abductees.
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Swiss drugmaker Novartis has announced it will withhold fees from outside counsel whose teams do not meet quotas it sets for time billed by female, racial and ethnic minority and LGBT attorneys, making it the latest large company to pressure law firms on diversity.
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Luo Chong, chief of the political section at China's embassy in Colombo, said China wanted to help with reconstruction in Sri Lanka's north and east, the center of a 26-year war between the government and ethnic minority Tamil separatists that ended in 2009.
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Critics, including many Western politicians, say that campaign has come at the expense of a crackdown on civil rights and the locking up of perhaps 1 million Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority, in China's at times violence-torn far western region of Xinjiang.
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Initially, Rakhine State and the Rohingya were not the military's main focus; conflict raged in the country's north and east, where the military fought armed groups in the borderlands and honed a ruthless counterinsurgency strategy that punished the wider population of ethnic minority civilians.
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"The most important task is to protect our motherland's frontier regions, build up our homes, absolutely not allow any groups to separate even one inch of our land from the motherland," said Tashi Yangjen, a representative of the tiny Lhoba ethnic minority of southeast Tibet.
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