• Most learners were from ethnic minority groups and were aged between 15 and 50 years.

    UNESCO: Literacy and Community Development Programme (LCDP)

  • Mr Andrews stressed that he would be happy to discuss the issue with ethnic minority groups around Cardiff.

    BBC: Education questions

  • Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi recently called for laws to protect the rights of ethnic minority groups.

    BBC: Burma: UN calls for inquiry over Rakhine violence

  • Kinsey may have been speaking about African American executives at the time, but the principle applies to women and to other ethnic minority groups.

    FORBES: Leave the Door Open and the Ladder Down

  • We have Khmer literacy programmes and bilingual literacy programmes for the ethnic minority groups managed by all key players in the education sector in Cambodia.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN PHNOM PENH

  • Labour AM for Cardiff South and Penarth Vaughan Gething raised his concerns that certain ethnic minority groups were failing to perform in schools across his constituency.

    BBC: Education questions

  • The business minister Andrew Stunell is to bring together finance and start-up business experts to look at the barriers preventing black and ethnic minority groups from accessing loans.

    BBC: Nick Clegg targets racial 'ceiling' in banks and sport

  • According to the Joseph Rowntree Trust, if you fall into one of Britain's ethnic minority groups, you are twice as likely to be living in poverty than a white person.

    BBC: Cancer's ethnic divide?

  • They included a failure to meet the needs of black and ethnic minority groups, a high turnover of project management and a lack of adequate skills to improve health and education.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • Burma's new military-backed civilian government - which has embarked on a series of reforms since elections in November 2010 - has pledged to resolve conflicts in border areas with ethnic minority groups.

    BBC: Burma ceasefire 'holds' in rebel-held Kachin areas

  • He suggested that applicants to the police should be required to have certain languages, spoken in minority communities, or to have done voluntary work, rates of which are thought to be high in ethnic minority groups.

    BBC: Police chief Dal Babu criticises ethnic recruitment

  • Sir Michael told the annual conference of the National College for School Leadership in Birmingham that he recognised there had been big improvements in areas such as London, and among some ethnic minority groups, in recent years.

    BBC: Ofsted to review educational achievement in poor areas

  • China has a one-child policy, but it is not based on religion and exceptions apply to minority ethnic groups.

    WSJ: Myanmar Child Law Sparks Opposition

  • Dr Jepson's work was part of a study funded by NHS Health Scotland to look into the levels of physical activity in minority ethnic groups.

    BBC: Stirling study says South Asians prefer group exercise

  • Simon Woolley, head of Operation Black Vote, a non-partisan group, says that black Africans are becoming more politically engaged, although they still lag far behind other minority ethnic groups.

    ECONOMIST: Immigration

  • Steve Shrubb, director of the NHS Confederation's Mental Health Network which represents the majority of mental health trusts, said tackling the over-representation of minority ethnic groups in mental health wards was the biggest challenge facing providers.

    BBC: The census looked at 257 NHS and independent institutions

  • The new chief minister of Terengganu, Abdul Hadi Awang, has already come under fire from both government and opposition parties, as well as minority ethnic and religious groups, for proposing new Islamic taxes.

    ECONOMIST: But the government faces an anxious future

  • The new, non-statutory, body is provisionally called the police, crime and response development forum and would be made up of representatives from business organisations, charities, ethnic minority and young people's groups and other "watch" groups such as Pubwatch.

    BBC: Police officer in Ipswich

  • The Gay Police Association was given public funding in 2002, putting it on an equal footing with groups for female and ethnic minority officers.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | London | Modernising gay officer gets MBE

  • Like so much in South Africa, the taxi business is rooted in the political and economic distortions of the apartheid era, when the white-minority government forced blacks, whites and other ethnic groups to live in separate areas.

    WSJ: In South Africa, a Drive to Rein in Cabbies

  • "There are still low levels of awareness of the screening programme, breast cancer symptoms and risks amongst certain groups, particularly black, Asian and minority ethnic women, " a spokesperson said.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • Another example is "white males, " a minority by definition, whose demonization is supposed to unite women and all other ethnic groups.

    WSJ: Best of the Web Today: Fascism by the Numbers

  • "The minority ethnic people in the valleys tend to be better-off, and right-wing groups find it easy to recruit young people who might not have seen their parents or grandparents working, " she explained.

    BBC: Valleys racism exposed in report

  • Two months ago Burmese troops launched an assault on ethnic Kachin insurgents in the north-east of the country, endangering a peace initiative with Burma's minority groups - widely seen as a precondition for democratic progress.

    BBC: Burma's President Thein Sein in first European visit

  • The main activities being taken forward as part of the 2009 programme include a range of new partnerships with three specific groups who are thought to be under-represented in parliamentary engagement: disabled people, people from ethnic minority backgrounds and hard-to-reach young people.

    BBC: Holyrood party for 10-year-olds

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