Minority rights

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The term '''minority rights''' embodies two separate concepts: first, normal individual [[right]]s as applied to members of racial, [[ethnic]], class, [[minority religion|religious]], [[minority language|linguistic]] or [[LGBT|sexual minorities]], and second, [[collective rights]] accorded to minority groups. The term may also apply simply to individual rights of anyone who is not part of a majority decision.

[[Civil rights movement]]s often seek to ensure that individual rights are not denied on the basis of membership in a minority group, such as global [[Women's rights]] and global [[LGBT rights]] movements, or the various racial minority rights movements around the world (such as the [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)]]).


==See also==

*[[Affirmative action]]
*[[Civil rights]]
*[[Ethnic group]]
*[[Ethnic war]]
*[[European Centre for Minority Issues]]
*[[Global Human Rights Defence]]
*[[Human rights]]
*[[LGBT rights in the United States]]
*[[Marek Edelman#Quotations|Marek Edelman]]
*[[Marginalization]]
*[[Minority religion]]
*[[Minority Rights Group International]]
*[[National personal autonomy]]
*[[Nationalism]]
*[[Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities]]
*[[International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]]
*[[Social stratification]]
*[[Teaching for social justice]]
*[[Tyranny of the majority]]
*[[The Yogyakarta Principles]]

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