00000nam a22000008i 4500 20260913094733.0 260919s2018 ii 00 0 eng d 9789388162203 K3242.E63 2018 342.087 23 Afroze Eqbal The Protection of Minorities and Human Rights / Afroze Eqbal. New Delhi 2018. 240 pages A minority group refers to a category of people differentiated from the social majority, those who hold on to major of positions of social power in a society. It may be defined by law. Minority rights are the normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or gender and sexual minorities; and also the collective rights accorded to minority groups. Minority rights may also apply simply to individual rights of anyone who is not part of a majority decision. Civil rights movements 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. Minorities struggle to realise all types of human rights, whether civil and political, economic, social or cultural, whether as individuals or as groups. Entrenched discrimination on ethnic or religious grounds is also a common precursor to conflict. The present book is a comprehensive, modern study of the important field of international protection of minority rights. Graduate Law Students, Theologians, political and social scientists, legal scholars, and human rights professionals will find this book useful in their collection. Minorities—Civil rights. Minorities—Civil rights—India. Human rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights bisacsh