Please advice as to how I get an access to<span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> <span style="color: black;">the Section IV of the </span><a href="https://www.ic.insitehome.org/sil/international-relations/archives/unesco/conventions/feasibility/at_download/file" target="_blank">preliminary
study. </a><br>Thanks.<br>Steve<span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Don Osborn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dzo@bisharat.net">dzo@bisharat.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">FYI (from the ILAT list)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Indigenous
Languages and Technology [mailto:<a href="mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU" target="_blank">ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave
Pearson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU" target="_blank">ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ILAT] Report on UNESCO debate on indigenous and endangered
languages</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 5.05pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 13pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Following a proposal
by Venezuela, UNESCO is considering whether there is a need for <span style="color: black;">a standard-setting instrument such as a declaration, a
convention or a recommendation for the protection of indigenous and endangered
languages. </span>UNESCO was unable to raise the extra-budgetary funds to call
a meeting of experts and so had to produce the report on their own. <span style="color: black;">Section IV of the </span><a href="https://www.ic.insitehome.org/sil/international-relations/archives/unesco/conventions/feasibility/at_download/file" target="_blank">preliminary
study</a><span style="color: black;"> raises questions of purpose, scope,
functions and principles that will need to be addressed before a decision can
be taken.</span> The proposed two-year observation period 2010-2011 is really a
delaying tactic because there are not enough funds to develop a
standard-setting instrument. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-GB">This report was debated in Paris last week at
the Culture Commission of UNESCO’s General Conference. <span style="color: black;">This
topic caused more debate than any other in the Culture Commission last week, with
45 nations and one observer (SIL) taking the floor to address it. </span>Everybody,
without exception, spoke of the importance and urgency of acting because
languages are disappearing. <span style="color: black;">Some (Hungary, </span>Venezuela,
Chile & Ethiopia<span style="color: black;"> ) called </span>for the UN
General Assembly to declare an <a href="http://donosborn.org/blog/?p=23" target="_blank">International
Decade of Languages and Multilingualism</a>. If a decade is to be declared
there will need to be some lobbying done in New York. Many praised
UNESCO’s <a href="http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00206" target="_blank">Interactive
Atlas of the Word’s Languages in Danger</a>. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Regarding the need for a standard-setting
instrument, some (Argentina & Cuba) said put it on the agenda for the 36<sup>th</sup>
General Conference in 2011, others (India, Sweden & St. Lucia) said hold an
expert meeting soon and some (Bolivia, Guatemala, Cuba & Venezuela) even
offered to pay for it. These four nations also called for UNESCO to appoint
somebody to act as a focal point to coordinate actions for protecting endangered
languages. UNESCO has agreed to this and appointed Mauro Rosi. Some
(Poland, Venezuela, Mali, Mexico, Brazil & South Africa) called for a
legally-binding convention, while others (Cuba, Australia & Tanzania)
preferred a more advisory instrument like a declaration. Still others (Austria,
Germany, Japan, Korea, Greece, Monaco, Norway, Spain, Russia & USA) said we
need to study how we can improve existing conventions before creating new ones.
South Africa reiterated the call in the <a href="http://www.acalan.org/eng/confeven/forum/commitment.pdf" target="_blank">Bamako
Commitment on Universal Multilingualism</a> for an International
Conference on Multilingualism. UNESCO has promised to “keep the pot boiling” on
this topic during the coming biennium. Category 2 meetings, where all members
states are present, are now the norm before a proposed convention or
declaration goes to the UNESCO General Conference.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-GB">My contribution to the debate ended with
“As we sit here and talk, unique voices around the world are falling silent!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Dave Pearson</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">SIL International</span></p>
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