Sentences with phrase «language minority rights»

This can be read as excluding funding for court challenges under the Official Languages Act or provincial / territorial laws affecting official language minority rights.

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If the minority obsession for human rights is to enjoy sustained popular support, it must speak the moral language of the American people.

The language of the right encompasses intolerance and racism, wants us to get back to an earlier time in history, and lays blame for today's problems at the feet of the poor, minorities and the elderly.

• protections for racial and language minority groups in the drawing of district lines consistent with the Voting Rights Act, ensuring those protections remain regardless of what happens at the federal level; and

The principles of the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA), which are increasingly facing threat of retrogression in the courts and Congress, are added to the state constitution, preserving the rights of language and racial minorRights Act (VRA), which are increasingly facing threat of retrogression in the courts and Congress, are added to the state constitution, preserving the rights of language and racial minorrights of language and racial minorities.

Although in most of the participants the left hemisphere was specialized in language processing, a minority had it inverted and the right side was in charge of these functions.

Nobody who wrote or supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 thought that the term «minority» included so - called language minorities.

The study was required by the department's office for civil rights in return for dropping a complaint against the district's program for language - minority students.

At that point, language - minority speakers and their advocates were arguing for bilingual education as a civil right.

In his book, Bolick describes how he helped orchestrate the mainstream media's first use of civil rights language in defense of school choice while discrediting a voucher opponent as «blocking the schoolhouse door to minority children.»

NYSABE promotes public understanding of the importance of language and culture in education, and defends the rights of linguistic minority communities to promote a pluralistic society.

Educating language minority students and affirming their equal rights: Research and practical perspectives.

For overseas stocks, we restrict our investments to companies with English language reporting, from countries which have had a good history of protecting minority shareholder rights and with global operations.

Article 14 provides that Convention rights should be «secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status».

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

The case concerns a dispute over the control and management of the Territory's French language education system and is the first time in over a decade that the SCC will render a decision on the scope of minority language education rights in English Canada....

Through an interdisciplinary treatment this book opens new perspectives on the history of Canada's official language communities, the structure of linguistic conflict, legal regulation, constitutional rights, minority language education and linguistic politics.

The SCC's decision is notable because it's the second within one month on the Charter's section 23 guarantee of minority language educational rights.

Practically, however, this decision is less about the Charter guarantee of minority language educational rights, and more about the breadth of a school board's powers.

The decision confirms that a school board's powers, including in relation to minority language educational rights, are only as broad as what the province or territory delegates to it.

Section 23 of the Charter gives certain Canadian citizens the right to have their children receive education in the province or territory's minority language at government expense.

On April 24, 2015 the Supreme Court of Canada decided the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms» guarantee of minority - language educational rights protects substantive equality of minority - language education, not merely formal equality — and this is measured by the quality of the educational experience, not costs and practicalRights and Freedoms» guarantee of minority - language educational rights protects substantive equality of minority - language education, not merely formal equality — and this is measured by the quality of the educational experience, not costs and practicalrights protects substantive equality of minority - language education, not merely formal equality — and this is measured by the quality of the educational experience, not costs and practicalities.

Article 30: In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities or persons of indigenous origin exist, a child belonging to such a minority or who is indigenous shall not be denied the right, in community with other members of his or her group, to enjoy his or her own culture, to profess and practise his or her own religion, or to use his or her own language.

In that case, a judge was found not to be biased because of his community involvement in minority language rights.

On April 24, 2015 the Supreme Court of Canada decided the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms» guarantee of minority - language...

Section 23 of the Charter provides that the protected minority language education rights only «apply wherever» the «numbers warrant».

Members in ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities shall not be denied the right, in community with the members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion, or to use their own language.

Similarly, Article 27 of the ICCPR requires the rights of minority groups including Indigenous peoples are protected to ensure their enjoyment of their culture, religion and language.

Article 27 of the ICCPR states «In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exist, persons belonging to such minorities shall not be denied the right, in community with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion, or to use their own language».

In those states in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exists, persons belonging to such minorities shall not be denied the right, in community with other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practice their own religion or, to use their own language.

Just at the outset, I would like to say that Article 27 of the Covenant requires that States not deny ethnic, religious, or linguistic minorities the right to enjoy their own culture protect their own religion, or use their own language.

The preservation and protection of Indigenous culture is addressed in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights50 (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.51 Both agreements have similar wording, providing that people belonging to ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities have the right, in community with their group, to enjoy their own culture and to use their own language.52 The Human Rights Committee, in explaining the importance of these rights, Rights50 (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.51 Both agreements have similar wording, providing that people belonging to ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities have the right, in community with their group, to enjoy their own culture and to use their own language.52 The Human Rights Committee, in explaining the importance of these rights, Rights of the Child.51 Both agreements have similar wording, providing that people belonging to ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities have the right, in community with their group, to enjoy their own culture and to use their own language.52 The Human Rights Committee, in explaining the importance of these rights, Rights Committee, in explaining the importance of these rights, rights, noted:

[5] Both treaties have similar wording, providing that persons belonging to ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities have the right, in community with their group, to enjoy their own culture and to use their own language.

So while it acknowledges that positive measures by States may be necessary to protect the identity of a minority and the rights of its members to enjoy and develop their culture and language and to practise their religion, it also notes that:

Members of ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities shall not be denied the right, in community with members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion, or to use their own language.

The rights which persons belonging to minorities enjoy under Article 27 of the Covenant in respect of their language, culture and religion do not authorise any State, group or person to violate the right to the equal enjoyment by women of any Covenant rights, including the right to equal protection of the law.

ICCPR's article 27 states «In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exist, persons belonging to such minorities shall not be denied the right, in community with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion, or to use their own language».