HRC43 – Minority, languages and education: reaction to the Special Rapporteur’s report
Human Rights Council – 43rd Session Geneva, Wednesday 11th March 2020 Interactive Dialogue – Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues …
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A rights-based framework for minority and indigenous languages in Africa: From endangerment to revitalization
It is estimated that between 6,000 and 7,000 languages are currently spoken worldwide, of which approximately half, if not more,…
As death toll rises in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions, MRG condemns violence, calls for impartial investigation into killings and long-term solutions to ongoing crisis
In light of the spike in violence in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions on Sunday, Minority Rights Group International (MRG) calls for…
MRG welcomes decision of Romanian court ordering installation of bilingual place signs in capital of Transylvania, urges authorities to abide by ruling without further delay
A Court decision which compels the local authorities to install bilingual place names in the city of Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár is a…
Linguistic rights
Linguistic rights protect the individual and collective right to choose one’s language or languages for communication both within the private…
From West Cameroon Statehood to Anglophone Cameroon Minorityhood
George Ngwane, a Commonwealth Professional Fellow at MRG, dissects the current situation for his country’s linguistic minority. For a year…
Latvia’s ‘aliens’
Julia Babahina, MRG’s former Fundraising Intern who was born into a Russian family from Latvia, reports from a very personal…
Museum exhibits: an informative piece representing a thriving culture, or a relic of a declining one?
Elvira Nurieva, who recently interned at MRG’s Europe office in Budapest, reflects on the deeper meaning of museum artifacts from…
Part 2: Indigenous languages are important but are they useful?
In the second of two blogs reporting from the Expert Seminar on Indigenous Peoples’ Languages and Cultures, Daniel Openshaw, MRG’s…
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Part 1: How to Skin a Porcupine
Daniel Openshaw, MRG’s Publications Intern, reports back from the Expert Seminar on Indigenous Peoples’ Languages and Cultures. In the first…
