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Conceptul de minoritate, criterii de definire şi interpretări
The concept of minority, definition criteria and interpretations

Author(s): Silvia Iorgulescu
Subject(s): International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Institutul Român pentru Drepturile Omului
Keywords: human rights; minority; ethnicity; religion; language; non-discrimination;

Summary/Abstract: The concept of minority is the subject of an analytical approach which, in most cases, aims at identifying the specific traits of a group, traits which unite the members of this group and at the same time distinguish them from the rest of the community that encompasses it. These particular specificities may be of an ethnic, religious, linguistic, etc. nature, but beyond these general characteristics, the attempt to define the minority is tangibly and inevitably confronted with a complex casuistry which only makes it even more difficult to encompass in a unique and pertinent definition the particular situation of minorities.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 7-11
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian