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LG474
Key Linguistic Rights Documents Online
Please
also see THIS webpage
Sources:
1) UNESCO’s MOST Clearinghouse on Linguistic Rights
§
Phase I, 1994-2003
(note that this is now somewhat dated): www.unesco.org/most/ln2nat.htm
o International Legal Instruments (declarations,
conventions etc.)
o National Constitutions w/provisions on language
(cf “without” list!)
o Non-governmental documents
Some of the principal ones are listed below. The MOST site generally
only contains excerpts related to language rights, and/or links to the full
document.
Please
suggest others that you think should be here (contact me here)
UN documents in red; European (CoE) documents
in blue;
others in black. Documents
ordered by date.
§
UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
(1951)
o
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/3b66c2aa10.pdf
§
UNESCO Convention Against Discrimination in Education (1960)
o www.unesco.org/most/lnlaw3.htm
for excerpts
§
UN Protocol
relating to the Status of Refugees (1967)
o
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/3b66c2aa10.pdf
o www.unesco.org/most/lnlaw7.htm for excerpts
§ European Charter for
Regional or Minority
o
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/148.htm
for full text
o
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/QueVoulezVous.asp?NT=148&CM=1&DF=19/01/2011&CL=ENG
- see “List of Declarations...” for individual states’ interpretations,
restrictions and implementations – the devil is in the details...
o
www.unesco.org/most/lnlaw8.htm
for summary
& link
§ Framework
Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (1994) (CETS no. 157)
o
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/157.htm
for full text
o
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/QueVoulezVous.asp?NT=157&CL=ENG
– see “List of Declarations...” for individual states’ definitions of NM, and
recognition of specific NMs in their territories
o
www.unesco.org/most/lnlaw13.htm for
excerpts
o
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/drip.html
Last updated on 06 February 2013