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Minorities Rights Day – December 18
December 25 , 2020
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- In India it was first observed on December 18, 2013.
- On December 18, 1992, the United Nations had declared the Statement on the Individual's Rights belonging to Religious or Linguistic National or Ethnic Minorities.
- It is observed to safeguard the Constitutionally-guaranteed rights of religious minorities in the country.
- In India, six religious communities have been notified as minorities.
- These include Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists and Zoroastrians or Parsis and Jains (2014).
- Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Lakshadweep are the only states where any notified minority is in majority.
- The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) was established under the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992.
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