Guide to human rights protection of minority languages in Africa, by Innocent Maja, Senior Partner of a Zimbabwean law firm and a Lecturer in the Private Law Department at the University of Zimbabwe's Faculty of Law. The article was published in 2008 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law. The author provides an introduction to the subject looking at various definitions of what a minority language is and the threat of extinction to minority languages. There are sections looking at the human rights instruments that protect minority languages under the United Nations system and under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. The article also looks specifically at the African situation covering the language rights afforded by the Cultural Charter for Africa and language policy and practice in Africa.
Towards the human rights protection of minority languages in Africa
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