Rita Izsak, the United Nations independent expert on minority issues, said in a statement that "the Roma are European Union citizens and Europe's most marginalized minority".
Speaking in English, Rita Izsak told students at C.E.U., most of them from Eastern Europe, about her own upbringing as a Roma in Hungary and her job as an independent expert on minority issues for the U.N. Human Rights Council.
2.01pm BST The UN expert on minority issues who has just been to Ukraine has urged all parties to take immediate steps to ease tensions and step back from further violence.
He traveled across the country to advise other police departments, and in doing so became an expert on minority police officers and their sometimes troubled relations with their white colleagues.
Rita Izsak is the UN's independent expert on minority issues and one of the co-authors of the letter submitted to the government.
Others, like Gay McDougall, an American who is the UN's independent expert on minorities, disagree.
Mr. Alegui repeatedly shouted through the door that Mr. Kazdaghli, who is an expert on minorities in Tunisia, including its Jewish population, was a Zionist.
A panel of UN experts on minority rights intervened in the Sinterklaas celebrations after receiving a complaint from an anonymous group, concerned that Black Pete was a "living trace of past slavery and oppression" and that it "fostered an underlying sense of inferiority of African people in Dutch society".
These outreach efforts were planned and implemented at each site in consultation with local academic experts and minority community leaders, including educators and clergy.
Election experts say minorities, poor people and students — who tend to skew Democratic — are among those least likely to have valid driver's licenses, the most prevalent form of identification.
