Русско-англо-русский юридический словарь

"Minority rights are the normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or gender and sexual minorities ( and also the collective rights accorded to minority groups.")

"This article of the law goes against the constitution, which guarantees the freedoms of minorities," Yonadam Kanna, a veteran Christian MP, told AFP on Saturday. (Independent)

The geographical distribution of minorities - as shown above - is such that some would be incapable of forming a local self-government body since generally speaking this would presuppose that the bulk of the local electorate belongs to a national minority present only in some municipalities even in the case of the "principal" minorities. (Federalism, Regionalism, Local Autonomy and Minorities: Proceedings, Cividale Del Friuli (Italy), 24-26 October 1996: Conference)