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Targeted action needed to address plight of world's deprived minorities - UN expert

With greater international and national attention to their plight, disadvantaged minorities - often among the world's most economically, politically and socially marginalized communities - can break free of their "left behind" status to participate in and benefit from the post-2015 development process, a United Nations human rights expert stressed today.

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