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the transitional period between childhood and adulthood
a teenager during his minority has some of the rights of an adult, but not all
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Recent Examples of minorities
Certainly, Hasina’s fall provided room for a spate of attacks on police and minorities, though analysts say the scale of bloodletting has been sensationalized.
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Charlie Campbell, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
The federal law that President Joe Biden signed at the end of 2021 followed allegations of human rights abuses by Beijing against members of the ethnic Uyghur group and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
It’s also suggested that the lack of safe spaces outside of work (where for many minorities racial and social inequalities are most felt) and home have contributed to feelings of isolation and otherness amongst young Black people.
—L'oréal Blackett, refinery29.com, 2 Oct. 2024
Historical society officials believe Booth oversaw a system where shares were sold of the Glencoe Homes Association for $1,000 each and then the Syndicate used those funds to buy properties owned by minorities via a secret land trust created and overseen by Booth.
—Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2024
Numerous democratic nation-states, including North Macedonia, Slovakia, and Spain, have constitutions that recognize ethnic or national minorities within their citizenries and acknowledge their equality.
—Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024
That would likely mean a continuing commitment to Islam, but one combined with relief for those, mainly religious minorities, who have suffered under the blasphemy laws enacted in the regressive 1980s.
—Madiha Afzal, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2019
Charlie Campbell, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
The federal law that President Joe Biden signed at the end of 2021 followed allegations of human rights abuses by Beijing against members of the ethnic Uyghur group and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
It’s also suggested that the lack of safe spaces outside of work (where for many minorities racial and social inequalities are most felt) and home have contributed to feelings of isolation and otherness amongst young Black people.
—L'oréal Blackett, refinery29.com, 2 Oct. 2024
Historical society officials believe Booth oversaw a system where shares were sold of the Glencoe Homes Association for $1,000 each and then the Syndicate used those funds to buy properties owned by minorities via a secret land trust created and overseen by Booth.
—Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2024
Numerous democratic nation-states, including North Macedonia, Slovakia, and Spain, have constitutions that recognize ethnic or national minorities within their citizenries and acknowledge their equality.
—Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024
That would likely mean a continuing commitment to Islam, but one combined with relief for those, mainly religious minorities, who have suffered under the blasphemy laws enacted in the regressive 1980s.
—Madiha Afzal, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2019
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“Minorities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minorities. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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