Sentences with phrase «be in a minority group»

In some cases, it's obvious the government's job is ALSO to protect the rights of citizens who happen to be in a minority group.

Not exact matches

Tech companies, in recent years, have been under fire for the underrepresentation of women and certain minority groups in their workforces.

It is true that the US did not persecute the Jews - or at least, as one Nazi lawyer remarked in 1936, it had not persecuted the Jews «so far» - but it had created a host of forms of second - class citizenship for other minority groups, including Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans, scattered all over the Union and its colonies.

Boyle also elaborated on the reason he and Coleman were in Afghanistan in the first place: to aid» the most neglected minority group in the world» in the remote villages in Taliban - controlled territory where other aid workers won't go due to the danger.

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Contact with women and ethnic minorities lessens unconscious bias, but since neither group is represented much in the upper echelons of business, it can be hard for executives to get that exposure — something not helped by the fact that many white, male higher - ups feel they don't know how to talk to younger women or minorities.

The move means no Latino will serve in a presidential cabinet for the first time in nearly 30 years and comes at a time when Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the country.

The findings of racially motivated mapmaking satisfied Democrats and minority rights groups, who are now pushing a separate federal court in Texas to determine that the voter ID law was also crafted with discriminatory intent.

Before you oil the squeaky wheel, here are some things to keep in mind about the vocal minority — those online customers, trolls and / or community members who have big mouths, but don't actually represent the sentiments of the group.

Islamic State's offshoot in Afghanistan, known as the Sunni jihadist group's so - called Khorasan Province, is suspected of carrying out several attacks on minority Shi'ite Muslim targets.

The MP for Richmond Park hasn't been able to win over the black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) vote either, and this is a problem given that this social group is on the rise in the capital.

As more companies begin to deliver remarkable products and experiences to women, people of color, and other minority groups that have largely been ignored or underserved in the past, they are responding with their support and loyalty.

Many large organizations have embraced such regulations, including the NFL (where «The Rooney Rule,» is named for early proponent and Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney), Pinterest, Facebook and RBC, the latter of which has a goal of granting half of new executive appointments to women and one in five to members of visible minority groups.

The group's plan is to raise at least $ 500 million in an IPO, then purchase a minority stake in one or more highly valued private tech companies.

Data on the representation of most minority groups in the industry is scarce.

Users were reporting everyday activities of members of minority groups in their neighborhoods as «suspicious.»

The situation in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine, where hundreds of thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims have fled for neighbouring Bangladesh after a military crackdown, is one of the biggest challenges facing the group.

As a minority in the sea of 450 - plus male chiefs, the group of 26 women CEOs in the Fortune 500 have often been referred to as a sorority.

Liberal legislation that received royal assent today means publicly traded companies are now required to disclose the number of women and others from equity - seeking groups, such as visible minorities, on their boards and in senior management.

«In order to accelerate meaningful corporate and market impact, many corporations are expanding their CVC unit mandates to include traditional minority investments, majority equity investment more consistent with Growth PE, M&A and internal commercial piloting and incubation programs; and compensation structures need to keep pace with these changes,» said Heidi Mason, managing partner of Bell Mason Group and co-founder of CVI ².

According to Harvard Business Review, «research first published in the Journal of Applied Psychology shows that even when the minority points of view are wrong, they cause the rest of the group to think better, to create more solutions, and to improve the creativity of problem - solving.»

LONDON, April 30 West Africa - focused oil and gas group Savannah Petroleum is considering selling a minority stake in its Niger assets before first oil flows there, which is expected in 2021, Chief Executive Andrew Knott said on Monday.

SCMP Group Ltd., which has posted three years of profit declines, has been suspended from trading since February 2013 after the company failed to have at least 25 percent of shares held by minority investors, the minimum proportion required for a company to trade its shares in Hong Kong.

The Carlyle Group («Carlyle») is one of the world's largest global alternative asset management firms that originates, structures and acts as lead equity investor in management - led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, growth capital financings, real estate opportunities, bank loans, high - yield debt, distressed assets, mezzanine debt and other investment opportunities.

A New York City advocacy group for low - income and minority residents filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank last fall for what it says are illegal and exploitative tactics that have cost the two named plaintiffs thousands of dollars in penalty fees it contends they shouldn't have had to pay.

To be included in UnitedHealth Group's Supplier Diversity Program, we require firms to be certified as minority - or women - owned businesses by a third party certification agency.

Diverse data: In a briefing with reporters, NIH officials said they are focusing on gathering health and genetic data from diverse and historically underrepresented groups — including ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as people with disabilities, with less than a high school education, and with income below the poverty level.

The term «dark money» is often applied to this category of political spender because these groups do not have to disclose the sources of their funding — though a minority do disclose some or all of their donors, by choice or in response to specific circumstances.

The largest infrastructure investment of the year was a minority growth financing in AvidXchange for $ 225 million led by Bain Capital Ventures with contributions from Foundry Group, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Nyca Partners, Square 1 Bank and TPG Capital.

The fact that none of these family offices reported targeting direct or co-investments above $ 5 million is also telling, as these California family offices unanimously prefer to make minority and small - to - middle - market deals, rather than executing some of the large deals that have been done by family offices and co-investment groups in recent years.

Against this backdrop, activist investment firm JCP Investment Management took up a significant minority stake in Fiesta over the past year, and JCP is now spearheading a shareholder group that is pushing for a boardroom shakeup.

It's a very frequent topic and we believe strongly in Instituting the Rooney Rule — meaning that unless it's an extreme situation, we want to get women [and others from minority groups] on a company's leadership team.

Incumbent and deeply unpopular Socialist Francois Hollande, should he choose to run, will compete in a primary of the «governmental left» that is deeply divided between a pro-market minority and a large, unreformed leftist group.

It differs in that being a member of a minority group is not a required qualification.

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Authorities in Thailand were trying Tuesday to deal with a new group of 67 members of an ethnic Muslim minority that arrived in a boat claiming that they were the victims of persecution.

If it is right to judge Islam as a whole on the basis of the barbarism of jihadi groups, how should we explain — and encourage — the actions of Kurdish Muslims and many other Muslims who are standing up to the jihadists and paying with their lives to protect Christian and Yazidi minorities in Iraq?

Racism in the UK is less dramatic, but perhaps no less present, and is revealed in the numbers of people from black and ethnic minority groups in certain jobs and professions.

Repressed groups like Gays and minority religions are rising up and WINNING in the cultural war.

This group is however in the minority, just very vocal.

By the way, essentually every minority group has been persecuted, throughout history, christians are not special in that regard.

So as a member of the most oppressed minority group in the history of time, religion is the cause of 95 % of the evil in this world and I don't need it in my government.

Of course they were persecuted, as has been every minority group in history.

The right to vote in this country for women and minorities would seem to be as obvious as the nose on your face, yet less than 100 years ago neither group enjoyed this right.

ISIS is also responsible for crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing directed at these same groups, and in some cases against Sunni Muslims, Kurds, and other minorities.»

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

Our friends who are in the same minority group faced similar situations.

You would think it would be a hard sell given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask God for forgiveness, called for targeting innocent civilians in war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty of minority groups in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.

that minimizes the historical suffering of women and minority groups in this country, 2) an overwrought persecution complex that confuses sharing civil rights with others with being persecuted by them, and 3) a persistent fear of the perceived «other» — Muslims, LGBT people, immigrants, refugees, etc. — that results in culture wars meant to «take back» the public square.

This evening, the US House of Representatives voted unanimously that groups such as ISIS are committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in the Middle East.