MINORITY RIGHTS GROUP INTERNATIONAL

No disadvantage shall result for any person belonging to a minority as the con Desiring to promote the realization of principles contained in the Charter of the sequence of the exercise or non-exercise of the rights as set forth in this United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on Declaration. [...] There is inevitably more information available on Nevertheless, for the various Chinese communities in the Chinese in some of these countries than in others, and most of the states of South-East Asia, the position is nei this is reflected in the differing lengths of the articles. [...] The ending of the Cold War, and the relaxation of relations between the People’s The report is the collective work of its authors: Ramses Republic of China and the states of the region (as well as Amer (Indochina), Mary Somers Heidhues (the historical superpower rivalry between China, the USA and the overview and the ASEAN states), Martin Smith (Burma) USSR) have produced more amicable relations b. [...] When Raffles founded Singapore in 1819, the In thinly populated Borneo (Kalimantan), on the island of settlement soon became a base for Chinese migration to Bangka off the coast of Sumatra, and on the Malay the Nanyang and, in the long run, a trade and financial Peninsula, the Chinese mined gold and tin, while commu centre for the region. [...] In the 19th Century, in the Netherlands Indies, the Dutch Political and Cultural Turnaround required the Chinese to live in ghettos and discouraged The wave of new migrants brought other changes to eth their conversion to Islam, the religion of the majority.