In 1996 the Kvens were granted minority status in Norway, and in 2005 the Kven language was recognized as a minority language in Norway.

Where there is a large linguistic minority within the country, the language of the minority is sometimes also an official language of the State concerned.

Language The Turkish language is officially recognized as a minority language of Bosnia and Herzegovina in accordance with the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, under Article 2, paragraph 2, of the 2010 ratification.

It enjoys the status of an official minority language in Sweden.

It is an official language of the Northwest Territories, and recognized as a minority language in five provinces.

The Croatian language is the official language, but minority languages are officially used in some local government units.

Addressing questions concerning the Latvian language, she said that significant efforts had been made to encourage minority groups to learn Latvian, and that there was no evidence of language based discrimination against women from minority groups.

Pre school and primary school education should, ideally in such cases, be in the child's own language, i.e. the minority language spoken at home.

For political and historical reasons, it received the status of a minority language in 2005 within the framework of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

In particular, the State party should consider reopening Uzbek, Russian, Kazakh, Armenian and other minority language schools.

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In this regard, persons belonging to minorities have a right, like others, to establish their private institutions, where the minority language is the main language of instruction.

The provisions which more specifically address minority language education rights both the teaching of and through the medium of one's mother tongue are generally most developed in certain minority instruments.

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The cultural rights of the large Kurdish minority, including the right to use their own language, had advanced greatly.

Since 1996 Frisian has been recognised as an official minority language in the Netherlands under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, although it had been recognised by the Dutch government as the second state language ( tweede rijkstaal ), with official status in Friesland, since the 1950s.

In its modern form, the Greek language, today is the official language in two countries Greece and Cyprus, recognized minority language in seven other countries, and is one of the 24 official languages of the European Union.

An advisory board for language affairs had also been established and received periodic reports on the situation of national and minority languages.

The principle in this decision could be extended to situations in which children from linguistic minority homes not yet having a sufficient command of the dominant language are forced into dominant language medium education.

One must evaluate if the child received a major part not necessarily the largest part of his instruction in the language of the minority.

It would be a requirement that the State does ensure the existence of and fund some institutions which can ensure the teaching of that minority language.

The Committee recommends that the State party adopt legislation on the status of languages as well as effective measures to improve the knowledge of the Georgian language amongst minority groups and to increase the use of ethnic minority languages in the public administration.

In cases where the language of the minority is a territorial language traditionally spoken and used by many in a region of the country, States should to the maximum of their available resources ensure that linguistic identity can be preserved.

Article 27 mandates the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minority to enjoy their own culture, to profess their own religion, and to use their own language.

The observer for Finland presented information on recent developments to protect the rights of the Saami minority in Finland, such as the Language Act and the new Saami Act.

Polish was of the national language, but the treaty provided that minority languages could be freely used privately, in commerce, religion, the press, at public meetings, and before all courts.

Greek place names were changed to Albanian names, while use of the Greek language, prohibited everywhere outside the minority zones, was prohibited for many official purposes within them as well.

The most numerous groups of minority population are organized through their non governmental organizations, which is goal is the providing of humanitarian aid, nurturing of their cultural heritage, especially language.

Persons belonging to groups solely defined as linguistic minorities might similarly be held to have only those special minority rights which are related to education and use of their language.

In the same way as the State provides funding for the development of the culture and language of the majority, it shall provide resources for similar activities of the minority.

The Committee notes the absence of legislation regarding the status of languages, the lack of sufficient knowledge of the Georgian language by minority groups and of effective measures to remedy this situation as well as to increase the use of ethnic minority languages in the public administration (art.

Mixed villages outside this designated zone, even those with a clear majority of ethnic Greeks, were not considered minority areas and therefore were denied any Greek language cultural or educational provisions.

5. Reaffirms that counter terrorism measures should be implemented in full consideration of minority rights and must not be discriminatory on the grounds of race, colour, sex, language, religion or social origin

Libya s Jihadist Minority

If Turkey grants its own Kurdish minority more cultural and language rights and allows legitimate Kurdish political representation in the Turkish parliament, the willingness of Turkish Kurds to oppose Ankara will be diminished.

Vital national interests are protected within the framework of education, religion, language, culture, tradition, property, cultural heritage, territorial organization, public information, declaration of belonging to a national minority, political beliefs and other areas.

A parallel event on Minority Rights and NHRIs was organized by the NI and Minority Units, including minority fellows, during the sixteenth session of ICC.

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Today, France s black minority is trying to organize itself along the lines of the Jewish minority.

Majority influence refers to the majority trying to produce conformity on the minority, while minority influence is converting the majority to adopt the thinking of the minority group.

Section 23 establishes a complete code with regards to minority language educational rights, and it attains its objective of protecting and developing the linguistic minority in each of the provinces by contributing to the establishment of favourable conditions for the development of the anglophone community in Québec and of the francophone communities in the other provinces.

In addition to the indigenous languages, other minority languages are spoken by immigrant populations, such as the 80,000 German speaking Mennonites in Mexico, and 5,000 the Chipilo dialect of the Venetian language spoken in Chipilo, Puebla.

French language rights have been guaranteed in the province of Quebec since the Treaty of Paris 1763, French outside of Quebec and all other minority languages have faced laws against them at one time or another.

That process should be an interaction between the persons belonging to the minority themselves, between the minority and the State, and between the minority and the wider national society.