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Throughout the U.S., ethnic-based businesses continue to expand, even as mainstream centers suffer or go out of business.
The congress also encompassed an exhibition of eight different ethnic communities based on field work carried out by the NFS. An international poetry recitation and folk-performance on the occasion of the birth-centenary of the Nepali poet Siddhicharan Shrestha was also part of the congress.
Both Austria and Britain had agreed on the need for a broad-based ethnic post-Taliban government.
Ethnic communities that are based on shopping are, of course, not nearly so monolithic as ones rooted in language and neighbourhood.
Still, the data show a 2 percent overall increase in hate crimes over the previous year, and a rise in each individual category, with one exception: attacks based on ethnic bias or national origin.
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She is also accused of transferring money to the mainly ethnic Hutu FDLR rebels, based in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
"What this agreement represents is a breathing space, an interim period which the people of Afghanistan can take the first of many steps that will be required before a broad-based, multi-ethnic and truly-represented government can be established, " Brahimi added.
Their opposition to the Partition of Palestine was based on historical, legal, ethnic and other grounds.
The government favours such businesses, including those owned by ethnic minority people and military veterans, or those based in special economic regions.
The assemblage looks multi-ethnic and, at a pinch, broad-based.
His opposition alliance won the popular vote, securing 50% of the ballot by pledging to remove race-based quotas for the majority but poorer ethnic-Malay community in this mostly Muslim country of 28 million.
Emotions and frustrations are running high, and as we grapple to make sense of the tragedy, it is critical for all Americans to refrain from scapegoating any group of people or targeting innocent Americans based on their racial, religious and ethnic identity.
China has a one-child policy, but it is not based on religion and exceptions apply to minority ethnic groups.
"The Salims are affected by the crisis, " says Singapore-based political scientist Leo Suryadinata, who studies ethnic Chinese businesses in Indonesia.
He said he was proud people voted for blocs based on political goals and not along sectarian and ethnic lines.
It is a defining moment on whether a kinship-based society, dominated by tribal, religious and ethnic loyalty has reached a level of critical mass sufficient for national unity.
The agreement establishes a 29-member interim cabinet headed by Karzai, meant as the first step toward a broad-based government representing the range of Afghanistan's ethnic groups and regions.
However, there is still the lack of the awareness towards mother-tongue based bilingual education in the general public and in some ethnic communities.
Following a meeting with Myanmar-based diplomats over lunch, he met with civil society and ethnic and opposition groups.
Yet today the new ties that bind nations are based not on coercion--a lashing together of explosive ethnic mixes like Danzig and Yugoslavia--but on enlightened and mutual self-interest, promising greater stability and prosperity.
In the US, while quotas are not being considered to resolve this problem, some institutional investors are pushing for a market-based solution through engagement and shareholder proposals seeking greater gender and ethnic diversity on boards.
That issue was the topic of recent forums in the U.S. organized by the New York-based Asia Society, where Loh and representatives of Eurasian, ethnic Indian and Southeast Asian groups in Hong Kong (including this writer) spoke.
This Report recommended that multiculturalism replace the bicultural policy based on the British and French Charter groups around whom policies for ethnic diversity in Canadian society had been organised for over a century.
In March 2007, Pakistani forces based in the Wana region backed Mullah Nazir's offensive against ethnic Uzbek fighters, who not only fought the Pakistanis, but were blamed for the killing of more than 200 elders of the native Wazir tribe.
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Its pledges to unwind a decades-old race-based affirmative action policy designed to give a leg up to the majority ethnic-Malay population and reduce corruption have a strong appeal among mostly younger voters, analysts say.
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Before Soviet rule, identity and solidarity in Central Asia were largely based on tribe, clan, geography and even profession rather than on ethnic groups, which did not readily fit with geographical or linguistic divisions.
She has provided thousands of hours of CERT and community preparedness trainings to community members and organizations in multiple diverse communities including Youth Organizations, low-income Hispanic neighborhoods, multi-ethnic Muslim populations, multi-tribal urban Native Americans, African American, Faith Based and Asian American communities.
The expansion of mother tongue-based literacy programmes is an immediate response to the large mass of non-literate and disadvantaged castes and ethnic groups of women learners in Nepal.
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