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Today's Topics:<br>
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1. Advocacy Kit for promoting Multilingual Education: Including<br>
the Excluded (Francis Hult)<br>
2. Languages in Education Web Resources (Francis Hult)<br>
3. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Francis Hult)<br>
4. MOST Clearing House for Linguistic Rights (Francis Hult)<br>
5. Measuring linguistic diversity on the Internet (Francis Hult)<br>
6. Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or<br>
Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (Francis Hult)<br>
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Message: 1<br>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:59:31 -0500<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@utsa.edu">francis.hult@utsa.edu</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] Advocacy Kit for promoting Multilingual Education:<br>
Including the Excluded<br>
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Advocacy Kit for promoting Multilingual Education: Including the Excluded<br>
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The kit is meant to raise awareness on the importance of mother-tongue-based multilingual education to reach the goals of EFA. It presents the value and benefits of mother tongue instruction and is targeting policy makers, education practitioners and specialists.<br>
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Strat?gie de formation des enseignants en enseignement bilingue additif pour les pays du sahelThis publication aims at boosting the use of mother tongue instruction and bilingual education in these countries (in French).<br>
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Available here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/languages-in-education/multilingual-education/" target="_blank">http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/languages-in-education/multilingual-education/</a><br>
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:02:01 -0500<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@utsa.edu">francis.hult@utsa.edu</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] Languages in Education Web Resources<br>
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Languages in Education<br>
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UNESCO promotes mother tongue-based bilingual or multilingual approaches in education - an important factor for inclusion and qualilty in education. Research shows this has a positive impact on learning and learning outcomes.<br>
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The Organization provides normative frameworks for language policy and education and shares good practices in bilingual and multilingual education and mother tongue instruction.<br>
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:05:59 -0500<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@utsa.edu">francis.hult@utsa.edu</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples<br>
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The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples<br>
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The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the General Assembly on Thursday September 13, by a majority of 144 states in favour, 4 votes against (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States) and 11 abstentions (Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burundi, Colombia, Georgia, Kenya, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Samoa and Ukraine). <<a href="http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=voting&index=.VM&term=ares61295" target="_blank">http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=voting&index=.VM&term=ares61295</a>><br>
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:08:26 -0500<br>
From: Francis Hult <<a href="mailto:francis.hult@utsa.edu">francis.hult@utsa.edu</a>><br>
Subject: [Edling] MOST Clearing House for Linguistic Rights<br>
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MOST Clearing House for Linguistic Rights<br>
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International Human Rights Law plays an important role in setting standards for linguistic rights and, especially, for the protection and promotion of the identity of linguistic minority groups. It provides the normative framework for developing principles of democratic governance and multicultural policies aimed at managing ethno-linguistic conflict.<br>
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To raise awareness about linguistic rights and to provide tools for decision-makers in governments, parliaments, and civil society, UNESCO's MOST Programme has collected the most relevant provisions in international conventions, declarations and multilateral treaties, which pertain to linguistic rights.<br>
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:10:29 -0500<br>
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Subject: [Edling] Measuring linguistic diversity on the Internet<br>
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Measuring linguistic diversity on the Internet<br>
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The Language Observatory Project (LOP), the World Network for Linguistic Diversity and UNESCO have been working since 2002 to develop scientific methodologies to measure the presence of languages in the cyberspace and raise awareness on this very relevant component of cultural and linguistic diversity.<br>
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Subject: [Edling] Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to<br>
National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities<br>
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Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities<br>
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Reaffirming that one of the main purposes of the United Nations, as proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, is to achieve international cooperation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion...<br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>
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