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Development of Minorities' Rights and Critical Analysis of Contemporary Comparative International Human Rights Law for their Protection

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Author Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Law at Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, PAKISTAN

Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 2, Issue (7), Pages 53-58, July,14 (2013)

Abstract

Minorities have been a controversial issue throughout human’s history; their legal protection has been even more problematic. It took hundreds of years to define the term ‘minority’ but even the definition is problematic. The paper traces the development of minorities’ protection in international law, its definition and the contemporary comparative regional and international human rights law on the issue.

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