Sentence examples for minority rights groups from inspiring English sources

Democrats and minority rights groups joined the Justice Department in the lawsuit.

But Mr. Barron said the bureau had also probably double-counted hundreds of thousands of non-Hispanics whites, a finding that drew criticisms from minority rights groups.

A coalition of plaintiffs suing Texas – which includes minority rights groups, voters and Democratic lawmakers – say their experts have estimated 787,000 registered voters lacking one of seven acceptable forms of ID.

Minority rights groups and Democrats could press a three-judge panel in San Antonio over that possibility at a court hearing later this month in San Antonio, when they're also expected to demand new state and congressional maps for the 2018 elections.

Although Chao has vowed to protect, nurture and develop America's workforce, she will be under the watchful eye of immigrant and minority rights groups for opposing racial quotas.

Minority groups organising among themselves is nothing new – otherwise you wouldn't have LGBT groups, ethnic minority rights groups and so on.

[London : Minority Rights Group, 1997].

Christopher Walker and David Marshall Lang, writing for a journal in the Minority Rights Group series, detail Armenian loyalty to the Empire during the first world war: "When the Turkish war minister, Enver Pasha, was defeated by the Russians, it was the Armenian soldiers who saved him from being killed or captured by Tsarist forces".

In another incident just before new year, three overcrowded fishing boats loaded with 580 Burmese migrants were intercepted off the Thai coast, but were towed back out to sea after their engines had been removed, according to minority rights group the Arakan Project.

The protests that unseated President Viktor Yanukovych in February included some ethnic nationalists, troubling Ukraine's ethnic Russians, Hungarians and Romanians, Minority Rights Group notes.

In a new report released on Tuesday, the British non-profit Minority Rights Group warns that in several states, the risk of extreme ethnic or sectarian violence remains high.