Title: MOST Clearing House: Linguistic Rights

Source/Sponsoring Agency: Unesco. Management of Social Transformations Program

URL: http://www.unesco.org/most/ln1.htm

Date Checked: 7/26/2006      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 1/8/2005

Topics: International Law; Civil Rights

Other keywords: Linguistic Rights; United Nations

Contents: One of the major research topics of UNESCO's MOST Programme is the analysis of multicultural societies. Through interdisciplinary, comparative, and culturally sensitive research, the MOST Programme aims to furnish information useful for the peaceful and democratic management of societies characterized by cultural and ethnic pluralism. The Programme focuses on policies that contribute to the goals of achieving equality of citizenship rights between culturally diverse groups, and the avoidance and solution of ethnic conflict. The MOST “Linguistic Rights” section features its “Policy on Linguistic Rights,” which offers links and annotations to papers which discuss legal and social issues related to the development of democratic policies in multilingual societies. Visitors may also find a collection of relevant provisions in international conventions, declarations, multilateral treaties, and national constitutions which pertain to linguistic rights. The relevant sections from some of the more prominent international NGO documents are available as well.

Author of Annotation: B. Kreisler