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And, as the recent impasse in the US demonstrates, political minorities with effective veto power can abuse statutory ceilings in an economic downturn, when dependence on external debt finance increases.
Of course, there are other targets: Muslim immigrants, ethnic minorities, bankers’ bonuses, the European Commission, the ECB.
Even now, Hungary and Romania feel peer pressure and face sanctions from their EU partners when they engage in dubious electoral practices, compromise their courts’ independence, or discriminate against minorities.
Likewise, immigrants and ethnic minorities who seek to improve their lot have no interest in joining a populist rebellion directed mainly against them, which is why they will vote for Clinton.
A similar picture, though on a smaller scale, exists in many European Union member countries that are home to Roma minorities.
We now have abundant evidence linking the perception of economic insecurity in the West with anti-elite sentiment, political radicalization, and attacks on minorities.
We would hope that the leadership of the Russian Federation will affirm the rights of ethnic minorities; refrain from hostile rhetoric and actions against Georgians; and ensure that our common democratic values and respectful relations between neighbours are upheld.
If they rise to power, will they respect the rights of minorities and women and leave office when voted out?
Instead, political reform ought to include them – under the following conditions: Respect for the national constitution, the rule of law, and the independence of the judiciary;Acceptance of the rotation of power, based on free, fair and internationally monitored elections;Guaranteed equal rights and full political participation for non-Muslim minorities;Full and equal participation by women in public life.
Right-wing politics, especially when based on ethnic nationalism, are rarely good for minorities, who fare better in a more open, cosmopolitan environment.
It consists of respect for the unique human being and humanity's freedoms, rights and dignity; the principle of solidarity; the rule of law and equality before the law; protection of minorities; democratic institutions; separation of legislative, executive and judicial powers; political pluralism; respect for private ownership and private enterprise, and a market economy; and the furtherance of civil society.
Women and minorities are particularly likely to be victims of online harassment, but anyone may be targeted.
Muslims in many sub-Saharan African states are also minorities.
World leaders seem inclined against a boycott of August’s Olympic Games, or even of the opening ceremonies, which will highlight China’s policies aimed at a “harmonious society and harmonious world,” and will certainly feature performances by happy national minorities, including Tibetans.
For the unemployed or the poor, they offer paid jobs; for marginalized ethnic and religious minorities, they offer recourse through violence; and for the middle class, they offer an adventure, a sense of “purpose,” and an escape from mundanity.
We defended communities and minorities from the jihadists’ wrath, and prevented them from enslaving more women and stoning more dissidents than they did.
Moreover, it is essential that the state respects national minorities’ linguistic and cultural rights and promotes social inclusion.
Second, given that the risk of conflict is greatest in Ukraine’s Russophone east, an OSCE mission should be deployed there to ensure stability, security, and respect for minorities, and to condemn, if necessary, violations of specified commitments.
The resulting vacuum has been filled by various currents of political Islam, terrorism, protest movements, uprisings, secession attempts by national or religious minorities, and aspiring regional hegemons (Iran and Saudi Arabia).
Citing retrograde cultural practices – from the subjugation of women to violence against religious and sexual minorities – in the autocratic and crisis-prone countries from which immigrants often hail, their opponents often argue that people from these cultures cannot assimilate properly in Europe.
Turkish membership in the Union would also greatly ease the assimilation of the EU’s own Muslim minorities.
There are also concerns about the suppression of dissent (often cloaked in the guise of Xi’s anti-corruption drive), the clampdown on civil society, and the repression of western China’s Uighur and Tibetan minorities.
The result was a genocide in which as many as three million people, particularly minorities and intellectuals, were killed.
He has also taken significant steps to uphold the rights of women and sexual minorities, and has used his executive power to loosen immigration restrictions on families amid congressional paralysis.
By bringing recalcitrant minorities into a new security consensus, Russia helped transform local ethnic conflict into a constructive process of nation-building.
Only in this way could they win the backing of the various sectors of Syrian opposition – suspicious of the intentions behind unilateral support – and bring their positions closer to those of Syria’s minorities, which cannot be left out of this process.
Israel has traditionally strived to forge alliances with the region’s minorities – Kurds, Persians, Maronites, and others.
For example, according to President Barack Obama’s narrative, the United States has always been about a steady march toward freedom and equality, from the War of Independence to the abolition of slavery and the empowerment of women, minorities, and other previously marginalized groups, such as gays and those with handicaps.
This way, minorities become easily manipulated majorities.
It was also about turning a nativist American identity against minorities and immigrants.
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