Health experts have said more information is needed about ethnic minority groups in Scotland.A report has identified five priorities including recording the ethnic identity of every person registered with the health service.It said the authorities know little about the health of ethnic minority groups north of the border.This is largely because ethnicity is not recorded on death certificates and rarely...
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Chamarajanagar: The office of the Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare Department, Chamarajanagar district, has invited applications from law graduates belonging to minority groups such as Group-1, 2A, 3A and 3B for providing administrative training in giving justice. The applicants should not be aged above 30. Applications should be submitted along with photocopies of all marks cards, Bar council...
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scheme designed to encourage people from minority groups to report hate crime has been launched in Tayside.The Tayside Police Remote Reporting service will allow members of the public to report crimes without having to speak to an officer directly.Victims can fill in a form which will be available on the Tayside Police website.A number of groups have already signed up to the service, including Deaf...
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United States President Barack Obama on Sunday called for the unconditional release of Myanmar’s celebrated democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi.Under house arrest under the orders of Myanmar’s military rulers, Ms. Suu Kyi has spent over 14 years in detention, including a brief spell in prison.Mr. Obama spelt out his position when he met Myanmar’s Prime Minister Thein Sein and nine other leaders of...
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Aung San Suu Kyi, the iconic face of democracy in Myanmar, was placed under house arrest in 1989.President calls for "unconditional release of all political prisoners" in nation-- President Obama on Sunday called for the release of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners."There are clear steps that must be taken: the unconditional release of all political prisoners,...
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SINGAPORE: United States President Barack Obama on Sunday called for the unconditional release of Myanmar’s celebrated democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi.Under house arrest under the orders of Myanmar’s military rulers, Ms. Suu Kyi has spent over 14 years in detention, including a brief spell in prison.Mr. Obama spelt out his position when he met Myanmar’s Prime Minister Thein Sein and nine other...
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Bangladesh Cabinet today approved the Vested Property Return (Amendment) Act 2009 for restoring property seized from the nation's minority groups, mainly from the Hindus.Land and other kinds of property left behind during the 1947 Partition and during the 1965 India-Pakistan war were all vested in state ownership through enacting the Vested Property Act after Bangladeshs independence from Pakistan...
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Baghdad: Iraq's Kurdish-Arab tensions in the disputed Nineveh province may create a human rights catastrophe for minority groups that have faced rising attacks since the 2003 US invasion, a rights group said on Tuesday.Baghdad's Arab-led government and ethnic Kurds controlling a semi-autonomous northern enclave are battling over issues of wealth and power as the nation tries to thrash out tricky constitutional...
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Cairo - Tensions between Kurds and Arabs in northern Iraq are having a devastating impact on small minority groups, and could turn into a full-scale conflict as the US withdrawal accelerates, a rights group said Tuesday.A full-blown conflict of this nature could lead to a further destabilization of the country, the New York-based pressure group Human Rights Watch said in a 51-page report."With a full...
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Iraq's Kurdish-Arab tensions in the disputed Nineveh province may create a human rights catastrophe for minority groups that have faced rising attacks since the 2003 U.S. invasion, a rights group said on Tuesday.Baghdad's Arab-led government and ethnic Kurds controlling a semi-autonomous northern enclave are battling over issues of wealth and power as the nation tries to thrash out tricky constitutional...
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