(e) Linguistic minorities

Regional European instruments on minority rights use only the concept national minorities and do not refer to ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities .

Problems facing the Wayeyi, as well as other linguistic minorities in Botswana continued to be reported.

Any group with distinct linguistic and cultural characteristics therefore belonged to a minority and was entitled to protection, regardless of the State party's position.

21. Calls upon all authorities of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to respect the rights of all persons belonging to any of its national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities

Others, including Belgium and Cameroon, have avoided serious conflict, but have experienced significant acrimony over the treatment of linguistic and regional minorities.

The question has been raised as to whether special measures in favour of national or ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities constitute a distinction in the enjoyment of human rights.

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In the Court's view, the authors' arguments linguistic duality, multiculturalism, federalism, democracy, constitutionalism and the rule of law and the protection of minorities did not discharge that burden.

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D. Recognition of language knowledge

The participants find that the problems of religious minorities, linguistic groups, ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples discussed in the seminar share a number of common elements across the South Asian subregion.

(ii) A clustering of the issues concerning Roma Afro descendants nomads, pastoralists, hunter gatherers and shifting cultivators religious minorities linguistic minorities displaced minorities and other situations affecting minorities

Expressing concern that the entire population of Kosovo has been affected by the conflict there and its aftermath, and stressing that all of the national, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities there must benefit from their full and equal rights, without discrimination,

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Europe s linguistic variety is immense.

The human language capacity is represented in the brain.

This entire project was made difficult by language barriers.

Lulllaby in the Otomí language from the Oto Manguean family

The children were provided with health care, counselling, language assistance and education.

While the Iranian Constitution officially guarantees freedom of cultural expression and linguistic diversity, ethnic diversity is one of the topics the regime has found it most problematic to address, despite the fact that ethnic minorities make up 50 of the Iranian population.

(f) Displaced minorities and other situations affecting minorities

WASHINGTON, DC Throughout history, mistreatment of minorities whether ethnic, religious, linguistic, cultural, regional, ideological, sexual, or other has fueled violence and devastated societies worldwide.

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.

Minorities

I still have to work on my language skills.

This may be related to linguistic universals.

It is part of the greater Indo European language family.

While the Declaration does not provide group rights to self determination, the duties of the State to protect the identity of minorities and to ensure their effective participation might in some cases be best implemented by arrangements for autonomy in regard to religious, linguistic or broader cultural matters.

Tensions between States have arisen in the past and in some cases continue in the present over the treatment of minorities, particularly in relations between the home State of a given minority and other States where persons belonging to the same ethnic, religious or linguistic group reside.

Visible minorities

(b) Minorities

Minorities

(c) Ensuring that the education of persons, and in particular children, who are blind, deaf or deafblind, is delivered in the most appropriate languages and modes and means of communication for the individual, and in environments which maximize academic and social development.

Serbs and other non Albanians are deprived of all linguistic rights.

(g) Language and documentation services (UNOV) share based on workload

Too often, we have debated the finer points of language while innocent people continue to die.

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Language Web sites of the High level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly

Full compliance with the established language policy is needed.

Minority situations addressed and measures requested by minorities

At the meeting minority representatives had presented their views on the root causes of conflicts affecting or involving minorities.

If the educational model chosen for a school (legally or administratively) does not mandate or even allow indigenous or minority children to be educated mainly through the medium of a language that the child understands, then the child is effectively being denied access to education.

The constitutional principle of protection of minorities and the principles governing the interpretation of language rights favour a large and liberal interpretation of the French Language Services Act which imposes on the Government of Ontario a duty to provide services such as those provided at the Montfort, unless it is reasonable and necessary to limit them.