ABSTRACT
This book limits its focus to minorities as identified in article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 (ICCPR),1 and the Declaration on the Rights o f Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, 19922 (Declaration on Minorities, 1992) who are non-dominant and numerically inferior in comparison with the dominant group. Ethnic, national, religious and linguistic minority groups are referred to in this work as ethnic minorities or minorities, because the author is o f the opinion that religions, languages and cultures are salient defining characteristics o f ethnic groups. Other vulnerable social and cultural groups such as women, homosexuals, and the disabled are excluded.
