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Human Right Issues Of Victims Of Violent Crimes: Restless Waiting For Recognition As Minority, Sukdeo Ingale

Sukdeo Ingale

The essay argues vary unique issue of protection of human rights of victims of violent crimes by recognizing their ‘minority’ status. Most of the legal systems recognize minority groups based on different basis like ethical, cultural, religious and linguistic identity, etc characteristics of the group. It is to be noted that there is no universally agreed definition as to which groups constitute minorities. The existence of minority is a question of fact which depends on various objective and subjective factors. Recently the focus of academic researcher is on the recognition of minority status on new grounds like sexuality, etc. Though …