Tuesday, December 03, 2002
Bilingual Education Supporter Invokes the UN
From "Bilingual Education Is A Human and Civil Right":
The current attack on bilingual education denies children a basic human and civil right - the right to learn in their native language. Article 29 of the Convention on the Rights of a Child adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989 (and ratified by all
nations except the United States and Somalia) states that "the education of the child should be directed to ... the development of
respect for the child's parents, his or her own cultural identity, language and values." Article 30 states that "a child belonging to an
[ethnic, religious, or linguistic minority] should not be denied the right ... to use his or her own language."
|posted by Jim on 5:43 PM|
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