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Languages in Education

  • Multilingual Education
  • Languages and Inclusive Education
  • Indigenous Education
  • Textbooks Development

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Report by the Director General on a Strategy concerning the Role of Languages in Achieving EFA in the Context of Sustainble Developement

 

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MESSAGES

Message from the Director-General of UNESCO:  EN | FRE | ES | ARA | CHI | RUS

Editorials for IMLD 2012

  •  A world without words? - Celebrating International Mother Language Day (UNESCOPRESS)
  • Languages and the Realization of the Right to Education   (by Kishore Singh, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education)
  • Interview with Colette Grinevald : “Speaking your mother tongue is not a disability!”
  •  Jon Landaburu wins Linguapax 2012 award
  • Nisha's right  by UNESCO Nepal

Celebrations

  • International Mother Language Day on UN
  • International Mother Language Day at Dakar
  • International Mother Language Day at Bangkok

Background

  • Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic Religious and Linguistic Minorities (1992)
  •  European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (1992)
  • Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (2011)  
  • Mother Language day 2011
  • Mother Laguage day 2010

Resources

  • Poster 2012   | Previous Posters
  • Recent Publications | Documents

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Linguistic diversity and multilingualism on Internet

Endangered languages

Revitalizing Mayangna Language and Culture: The importance of Mother Tongue Education in Nicaragua

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