"Local officials don't wallpaper their offices with memos about how to restrict minority-group members' access to the polling booth".
Dan Pollard, an American missionary who was evicted from Russia in March under a new law that restricts minority religious groups, has been granted a visa for three months to return to his church in Vanino, a remote port town in the Far East.
After a recent court ruling banning a scholarship restricted to minority groups at the University of Maryland's College Park campus, the Meyerhoff program became available to students of any race who "demonstrate an interest in issues of underrepresentation in the sciences".
These trials were restricted to minority groups (Latin Americans or African Americans) or women, and a common feature was the successful increase in 25(OH D level following D3 supplementation.
By 2010, Indonesia had over 150 religiously motivated regulations restricting minorities' rights.
It is also acknowledged that the uniqueness of a single-site academic centre which had poor representation of minority groups restricts the representativeness of findings.
It warned, in its latest annual report, of "a marked deterioration [in human rights], characterised by attempts to control civil society, restrict political opposition and marginalise minority groups".
The state has a higher-than-average incarceration rate, largely made up of people of color, and advocates had long argued that restricting voting rights mostly disenfranchised minority groups who might otherwise participate in their democracy.
The funding available restricted the study to two minority groups.
Due to the small sample size of minority groups, we restricted analyses to Caucasians.
Difficulties with recruiting research participants from ethnic minority groups is not solely restricted to mental health research; such problems have been encountered in range of other areas including research in nursing [ 8], public health [ 9] and cardiovascular disease [ 10].
