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Governments must also develop and implement policies aimed at ensuring that those who are typically marginalized from the formal food industry – women, young people, ethnic minorities, and non-landowners – have reliable access to adequate nutrition and opportunities to participate in agricultural production.
But passage of that law also revealed something else: how difficult it is for French people to deal with what Americans refer to as the minorities issue.
But Europe, especially France, seems to be "Americanizing" its conception of poverty, because a big gap now exists between the poverty levels of white people and minorities.
Yet opposition to Sarkozy remains high, and not only among minorities and young people, who have registered to vote in high numbers, supposedly to oppose him and his heavy use of the police in the banlieues .
Minorities are easy targets everywhere (certainly, Christians and Jews do not have an easy time nowadays in Muslim-majority countries).
That is why Charlie Hebdo’s mockery of the sacred beliefs of minorities (Jews, Muslims, and gays alike) is not an act of bravery.
This means welcoming migrants and minorities, creating more opportunities for women and the disabled, and empowering citizens through education and participation.
Since 2001, Christian minorities have been targeted throughout the region, including even Lebanon’s Maronite Christian community.
At its core, it contains a highly objectionable assumption that other minorities do not work hard enough to succeed.
But the upper classes of Damascus, the secular men and women who enjoy Western music and films, some of them members of the Christian and Alawite religious minorities, will have a hard time surviving once Assad is gone.
Baathism was dictatorial and oppressive – often brutally so – but it protected minorities and the secular elites.
All are democracies with market economies, and are making good-faith efforts to deal with ethnic minorities.
Instead of multi-party politics, Mill favored democratic elections constrained by such mechanisms as extra votes for the educated and institutional mechanisms to protect the rights of minorities.
The underlying cause of these two shortcomings is one of the fundamental features of Indian democracy, and indeed of all democracies: the power of minorities.
Political minorities also inhibit the construction of infrastructure and the development of the educational system that India needs by using the democratic process to divert resources to themselves, which then cannot be used to build roads or pay teachers.
Modi’s new government cannot – indeed, must not – abolish the democratic rules that permit minorities to flourish.
And it is never easy to balance the power of the center with the preferences of minorities, the rights of regions, and the authority of local entities.
War with Jews or Christians has necessarily taken a back seat (except where, as in Egypt and Syria, Christian minorities are perceived to be allied with the regime).
Shockingly, Russia argued that it had the right to attack a country that harbored people to whom it had just issued passports, scaring all countries with Russian minorities.
But blacks and other minorities in the United States – and elsewhere in the world – do not share in these successes, and environmental factors appear to explain the disparity.
It is, after all, white corporate elites, not poor African-Americans, Hispanics, and other minorities, who deprive working-class whites of quality public schools, affordable health care, and environmental safety.
The Muslim Brotherhood is working to strengthen ties with Sunni allies, such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and even Turkey, rather than with Iran’s Shia regime, which threatens Sunni regimes by exporting revolution and pitting Shia minorities against their governments.
And it seems quite likely that, as we found for Tea Partiers in 2011, Trump backers approve of social-welfare benefits that go to “real Americans” like themselves, while opposing public spending on minorities and low-income people.
In Trump’s disparagement of Latino immigrants, independent women, and “uppity” minorities, his base hears a promise to “make America great again” by reasserting white male hegemony.
Unfortunately, Zeman is not the only Central European leader attempting to exploit ethnic nationalism and antagonism toward minorities, which has become the dominant ideology in the region.
Havel’s stand for human rights – whether on behalf of unpopular minorities such as the Roma or unpopular former minorities such as the three million Sudeten Germans who were expelled from Czechoslovakia after World War II – helped to ensure that he was more celebrated internationally than at home.
The BJP's real target was Indian society tradition of tolerance and pluralism, which it attacked for allegedly representing the appeasement of religious minorities.
Constitutional law was defied and horrendous communal violence against religious minorities became frequent.
Whereas regulation creates unearned rents for overprotected minorities (taxi drivers, notaries, airline pilots, and telecom or electricity workers), deregulation reduces these rents and redistributes them to the general public.
But because overprotected minorities enjoy privileged access to politicians, it is no surprise that deregulation incites so much fierce--and effective--opposition.
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