Symposium on Language Rights
Acknowledgement of a minority language at state level
Pär Stenbäck, Finland’s former minister of Education and Foreign Relations
Bart Weekers, Flemish Ombudsman
Chairperson: Carles Torner, writer, member of the boards of PEN and Linguapax
March 20th, 2014
Running time: 1h 20'
Videos (10)
From the lack of officiality to a partial constitutional recognition (1714-1979)
Multilingualism in Spain: public authorities and promotion of official languages
Ombudsmen and language rights in the system of autonomous regions
Defence of minority languages by supranational institutions: Council of Europe
Multilingualism with equality of rights and duties at state level. The Canadian model
Language rights as human rights: Universal Declaration of Language Rights
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