Language as a human right is not explicitly mentioned in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
For this reason, a commission of the international organization PEN drafted a document on linguistic rights that was submitted to UNESCO in 1996.
One of the articles in the document declared the following collective rights for language groups:
* the right for their own language and culture to be taught;
* the right of access to cultural services;
* the right to an equitable presence of their language and culture in the communications media;
* the right to receive attention in their own language from government bodies and in socioeconomic relations
The document was “ noted with interest” by the UNESCO Executive Board, but was not adopted as official policy, perhaps because it was so long and complicated.
The question may be raised again now that we enter the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032..
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