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Lao 55%, Khmou 11%, Hmong 8%, other (over 100 minor ethnic groups) 26% (2005 census)
www.exxun.com/Laos/c_pp.html
groups
... ineffectively resourced; its mission focus is border and internal security, primarily in countering ethnic Hmong insurgent groups; together with the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and the government, the Lao People's ...
www.exxun.com/Laos/h_ml.html
groups
... for Syria to withdraw from Lebanon and end its interference in Lebanese affairs - encouraged some Lebanese groups to demand that Syria withdraw its forces as well. The assassination of former Prime Minister ...
www.exxun.com/Lebanon/a_fg.html
groups
... el Litani is the only major river in Near East not crossing an international boundary; rugged terrain historically helped isolate, protect, and develop numerous factional groups based on religion, clan, and ethnicity
www.exxun.com/Lebanon/b_mp.html
groups
... New Democratic Macau Association [Antonio NG Kuok-cheong]; United Forces note: there is no political party ordinance, so there are no registered political parties; politically active groups register as societies or companies
www.exxun.com/Macau/d_gv.html
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Bersih (electoral reform); Sharia High Court other: religious groups; women's groups; youth groups
www.exxun.com/Malaysia/d_gv.html
groups
... have been no formally organized political parties; what has existed more closely resembles factions or interest groups because they do not have party headquarters, formal platforms, or party structures; the following two ...
www.exxun.com/MarshallIslands/d_gv.html
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four major island groups totaling 607 islands
www.exxun.com/Micronesia_FederatedStatesof/b_mp.html
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other: human rights groups; women's groups
www.exxun.com/Mongolia/d_gv.html
groups
... of the population belong to the Ovambo tribe and 9% to the Kavangos tribe; other ethnic groups include Herero 7%, Damara 7%, Nama 5%, Caprivian 4%, Bushmen 3%, Baster 2%, Tswana 0.5
www.exxun.com/Namibia/c_pp.html
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other: several small armed Madhesi groups along the southern border with India; a variety of groups advocating regional autonomy for individual ethnic groups
www.exxun.com/Nepal/d_gv.html
groups
Caribbean, two island groups in the Caribbean Sea - composed of five islands, Curacao and Bonaire located off the coast of Venezuela, and Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint Eustatius lie east of the ...
www.exxun.com/NetherlandsAntilles/b_mp.html
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Women's Electoral Lobby or WEL other: apartheid groups; civil rights groups; farmers groups; Maori; nuclear weapons groups; women's rights groups
www.exxun.com/NewZealand/d_gv.html
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... or CGT-I, and Labor Action and Unity Central or CAUS); Nicaraguan Workers' Central or CTN (an independent labor union); Superior Council of Private Enterprise or COSEP (a confederation of business groups
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/d_gv.html
groups
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18 ...
www.exxun.com/Nigeria/c_pp.html
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Norwegian Aid Committee or NORWAC; Norwegian Association of the Disabled; Pure Salmon Campaign; The Consumer Council (consumer advocacy group) other: environmental groups; media; reform movements
www.exxun.com/Norway/d_gv.html
groups
westernmost archipelago in the Caroline chain, consists of six island groups totaling more than 300 islands; includes World War II battleground of Beliliou (Peleliu) and world-famous rock islands
www.exxun.com/Palau/b_mp.html
groups
... six-year term as president in May 2004. The Philippine Government faces threats from three terrorist groups on the US Government's Foreign Terrorist Organization list, but in 2006 and 2007 scored ...
www.exxun.com/Philippines/a_fg.html
groups
IDPs: 300,000 (fighting between government troops and MILF and Abu Sayyaf groups) (2007)
www.exxun.com/Philippines/i_ti.html
groups
... Popular Army or EPB (a revolutionary group also known as Los Macheteros); note - the following radical groups are considered dormant by Federal law enforcement: Armed Forces for National Liberation or FALN, Armed ...
www.exxun.com/PuertoRico/d_gv.html
groups
... of historical monuments and recording of history); Russian Orthrodox Church; Russian-Chechen Friendship Society other: ecology groups; human rights groups; nationalist pragmatists (no foreign influence over Central Eurasia); neo-Eurasianists (against Western ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/d_gv.html
groups
... ensuing territorial losses; Russia demands better treatment of ethnic Russians in Estonia and Latvia; Estonian citizen groups continue to press for realignment of the boundary based on the 1920 Tartu Peace Treaty ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/i_ti.html
groups
fighting among ethnic groups - loosely associated political rebels, armed gangs, and various government forces in Great Lakes region transcending the boundaries of Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda - abated ...
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/i_ti.html
