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Language rights as human rights

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Online article written by Stephen May, professor of Māori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland. The article focuses on whether speakers of minority languages have the right to maintain and use that language in the public or civic realm including education. The article was published in 2025 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law.

Towards the human rights protection of minority languages in Africa

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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.

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