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Racial, ethnic and religious minorities continue to suffer persecution.
Minorities continue to have difficulty raising capital or securing loans to finance a business.
Incidents of harassment andintimidation directed against minorities continued throughout Kosovo.
Women and minorities continue to be over-represented in low-paying jobs.
As highlighted by the Independent Expert on minority issues minorities continue to be excluded from economic life.
Minorities continued to face violence, intimidation, discrimination, and difficulties accessing public services.
The Special Rapporteur regrets that religious minorities continue to be discriminated against in law and practice.
Ethnic minorities continued to constitute the most vulnerable groups in Moldovan society, in spite of measures taken to improve their lot.
The improvement of the social status of the Roma and other ethnic minorities continues to be one of the Czech Republic's key priorities.
These minorities continue to manage the revolving loan funds and plan/implement their own development and income-generating activities.
Quantifying the problem of the poverty among racial and ethnic minorities continues to be a challenge given the absence of disaggregated data.
The Committee expressed concern that, despite the measures adopted by Hong Kong, China to ensure equal access to 12-year free education,children of ethnic minorities continued to face discrimination.
ACHR noted that Hindu minorities continued to be targeted and their religious freedoms violated.
Notwithstanding positive measures to confront discrimination and racism,certain information emphasized that minorities continued to suffer, particularly the Roma.
Women and ethnic and religious minorities continued to face serious discrimination in law and in practice.
Although the opening of Viet Nam's economy to market forces in the 1980s and 1990s has reduced poverty levels andincreased personal freedoms for much of the population, minorities continue to face many hardships.
Despite constitutional recognition of their specific rights,ethnic minorities continue to suffer the consequences of racial discrimination and intolerance.
Ethnic minorities continue to face impediments in exercising their own language and culture, as well as in participating in public life, even if Turkmenization policies have been scaled back to some extent under the current president.
The exclusion of minorities and the most vulnerable sections within minorities continues to contribute to the undermining of development and political and social stability.
While noting the measures taken by the State party to improve the situation of the Ainu people, the Committee is concerned that children of Ainu, Korean,Burakumin origin and other minorities continue to experience social and economic marginalisation.
Aware that discrimination against minorities continues to constitute potential or real threats to internal and international peace and security.
The Committee also notes with concern that, despite the measures adopted by Hong Kong, China, to ensure equal access to 12 years of free education,children of ethnic minorities continue to face discrimination in that respect arts. 13 and 14.
Noting that immigrants,foreigners and ethnic minorities continued to face discrimination, it enquired about the action taken to prevent further discrimination against vulnerable groups.
Others, on the other hand, believe that the effects of affirmative action measures are still inadequate and that individuals belonging to ethnic,racial and female minorities continue to be exposed to discrimination in the areas of education, training and employment.
Members of ethnic and religious minorities continued to face abuse, restrictions on their right to practice their faith and to equal treatment and some, such as Pastor Nadarkhani, had been sentenced to death for their religious beliefs.
Pakistan noted with concern that racist and xenophobic behaviours motivated by a rejection of diversity had spread and gained new legitimacy, and that in the name of identity and national preferences, migrants,foreigners and minorities continued to be denied their most fundamental rights.
The Committee is concerned that children belonging to ethnic minorities continue to have limited possibilities to study and receive education in their mother tongue as there is a limited number of schools and textbooks in minority languages.
MRG stated that Iraq has so far failed to enact a law implementing Article 125 of the Constitution that guarantees"the administrative, political, cultural, and educational rights of the various nationalities, such as Turkmen, Chaldeans, Assyrians, andall other constituents". Alerada and JS11 reported that despite the recognition of equal rights in the Constitution, many minorities continue to suffer and recommended revising the curriculum to enhance knowledge of Iraq minorities. .
However, in spite of those encouraging measures,ethnic minorities continued to encounter a number of economic and social difficulties attributable to slow economic growth rates, poor infrastructure, high poverty and birth rates, and environmental degradation.
According to various NGOs, including the International Federation of Human Rights(FIDH), the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights andthe Fondation pour les Montagnards, minorities continued to be the victims of discrimination, particularly in the areas of employment, education and health and social aid.