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Minority Language Rights in International Law

International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 2001
The provision of legislative or other legal protection for linguistic minorities is widespread in domestic legal systems.1In international law, and in international human rights law in particular, the question of minority language rights has until recently received much less attention.
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Uncommon Languages: The Challenges and Possibilities of Minority Language Rights

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2000
This paper outlines some of the key complexities and controversies that surround the advocacy of minority language rights, most notably via the movement of Linguistic Human Rights (LHR). I argue that while the LHR movement has much to offer, particularly in articulating how minority languages might come to enjoy some of the privileges currently ...
Stephen May
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Minority Language Educational Rights Vindicated

SSRN Electronic Journal, 1991
The vindication of constitutional rights through the courts is an arduous, lengthy, and expensive task. Courts are notoriously slow, procedural demands are high, and lawyers are expensive. Given the inherent limitations of the court process as a vehicle of societal change, it is generally preferable to pursue solutions outside of the judicial forum ...
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Minority Language Rights as Human Rights:

2023
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Territoriality and Minority Language Rights

International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 2016
Territorial principle emerges not only in domestic legislations on language rights, but also in international documents. The article aims at offering an overview of the interpretations of territoriality in international documents relevant for minority language rights, with a special focus on the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages and ...
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Minority Language Rights: Ideas and Norms

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
This paper is a reflection on the ideas behind international norms on language rights, such as those developed in the European Charter on Regional and Minority Languages, the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the non binding thematic recommendations of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities.
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Minority Rights in Europe European Minorities and Languages

2001
Academic Discussion.- The Linguistic Rights of Minorities in Europe.- All Languages - Great and Small.- Non-Territorial Languages: Romany as an Example.- A Never-Ending Story? The Italian Draft Bill on the Protection of LInguistic Minorities.- The Frisian Language in the Netherlands.- Linguistic Rights in Spain.- Steps Towards a Minority Policy in ...
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Minority Rights and the Preservation of Languages

Philosophy, 2005
Do minority groups have a right to the preservation of their language? I argue that the rights of groups are always reducible to the rights of individuals. In that case, the question whether minorities have a right to the preservation of their language is a question of whether individuals have a right to it. I argue that, in the only relevant sense of ‘
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