'minorities' is a word that is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a group of people who are in the minority compared to the majority of people in a particular population. For example, "Minorities are often discriminated against in classrooms."
That could involve irregular troops, cyber attacks and inflaming tensions with ethnic Russian minorities in nations seen as part of the country's "near abroad" by Moscow.
The HDP ran on a platform defending the rights of ethnic minorities, women, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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At least a further 10 articles directly claim that Winterval was used to avoid offending "ethnic minorities".
Also, a lack of political will and rigid cultural norms do not favour the improvement of conditions for women, people with disabilities or minorities.
In the mid-20th century, however, nationalism, though tainted by the blood of European minorities, was the default consensus-building ideology of ruling elites everywhere in Asia and Africa.
Concerns about the aims of expanding Kremlin-backed media outlets are especially palpable in Russia's EU member neighbours, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which all have significant Russian-speaking minorities, as does Ukraine.
The figures also show the situation is worsening and ethnic minorities have missed out on the recent jobs boom as public sector jobs, where ethnic minorities are over-represented, have continued to be squeezed.
"Full year data suggest that the gap between the average unemployment rate for young people from ethnic minorities and that for young whites increased from 12 percentage points to 13 percentage points between 2007 and 2012.
In a sense that move alone tells you how much in fact the political mainstream even within unionism has changed when it comes to picking on minorities like Northern Ireland's once invisible and put down gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities.
The Rohingya, who were estimated to number around one million, or about one third of the state's population, have been described by the UN as one of the "most persecuted" ethnic minorities in the world, from a conflict that dates back decades.
