Link to UN's PFII Release: Subtractive Lg Education Is a Crime Against Humanity

[Stan Anonby]

Isn't it kind of heavy on past sins? It would be more interesting to me if 
it gave examples of language education crimes going on today.

Stan Anonby

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From: "Teresa McCarty" <Teresa.McCarty at asu.edu>
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Subject: Link to UN's PFII Release: Subtractive Lg Education Is a Crime 
Against Humanity


> Colleagues, I am not sure the attachment "stuck" (probably not allowed by
> the listserv, and thanks to Richard Ruiz for calling it to my attention).
> Here is the link to this document:
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> http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/E_C19_2008_7.pdf
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> Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
> Seventh session
> New York, 21 April -2 May 2008
> Items 4 and 7 of the provisional agenda
> ＊
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> Expert paper 1
> submitted by Lars Anders-Baer. Prepared in cooperation
> with Ole Henrik-Magga, Robert Dunbar and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas.
> FORMS OF EDUCATION OF INDIGENOUS CHILDREN AS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY?
> Advance Unedited Version
> United Nations
> E/C.19/2008/7
> Economic and Social Council
> Distr.: General
> 8 February 2008
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> http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/E_C19_2008_7.pdf
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> Original message:
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> Please see the attached expert statement commissioned by the UN's 
> Permanent
> Forum on Indigenous Issues.   It's a very strong statement, basically
> arguing that subtractive education for Indigenous peoples is tantamount to 
> a
> crime against humanity and should be sanctioned as such under 
> international
> law.  Although the focus is Indigenous peoples, there are clear extensions
> to other minoritized groups.
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> Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, who is one of the coauthors, has urged that this
> document be distributed widely.  It will be interesting and important to 
> see
> how the PFII and UN Human Rights Council respond to it.
>
> Teresa L. McCarty, Ph.D.
> Alice Wiley Snell Professor of Education Policy Studies
> Arizona State University
> Mary Lou Fulton College of Education
> Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
> Farmer Building 120 - PO Box 872411
> Tempe, AZ 85287-2411
> PH: 480.965.6357  FAX: 480.965-1880
> Teresa.McCarty at asu.edu
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