While advocacy of minority language rights (MLR) has become well established in sociolinguistics, language policy and planning and the wider human rights literature, it has also come under increased criticism in recent times for a number of key limitations. In this paper, I address directly three current key criticisms of theMLRmovement. The first is aperceived tendency towards essentialism in ...

Background: Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a practice involving the removal of all or parts of the female external genitalia.It has been documented in 28 African countries and in some countries in Asia and the Middle East,but due to increasing immigration from these countries to the western world,FGM has become a worldwide human rights and health issue. Materials and Methods: This paper is ...

In terms of their political and ideological success, Pakistani Islamists have had several ups downs since Pakistan became the Islamic Republic in 1956. strive to safeguard state’s status quo while simultaneously expanding reach Sharia. Despite insignificant electoral victories, largely been able dictate national identity policies civilian military governments. A major hurdle promotion pluralism...