Introduction to General Aspects of the Law on the Protection of Minorities
Vol.2,No.1(1994)
Abstract
Pages:
202–214
International law has not, as yet, laid down a conclusive definition of a minority. The definition given by F.Capotorti in the UN Study on the Rights of Persons Belonging to Ethnie, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (1977), is usually followed: "a group which is numerically inferior to the rest of the population of a State, in a non-dominant position, whose members - being nationals of the state in question - possess ethnic, religious or linguistic characteristics differing from those of the rest of the population and show, if only implicitly, a sense of solidarity, directed towards preserving their culture, traditions, religion or language".
202–214
Author biography
Robert C. R. Siekmann
Department of International Law, ASSER Institut, Hague
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