Abstract
In theory, minority rights have a bigger importance than it might seem at first look. In fact, they draw a line between two basic schools of notion of human rights: on the one hand, there is pragmatism based on the benefit of a majority, on the other, the school of natural law (including Kant) that is based on the inalienable rights of every individual.
Minority rights and, in particular, their exercise and enforcement are a sensitive indicator of how a given society implements human and civic rights in general.