Rights of linguistic minorities 2013, para. 58
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- Some persons belonging to linguistic minorities may be reluctant to engage with administrative bodies, the police or the judiciary due to their lack of language proficiency, with consequences that may include an inability or reluctance to report discrimination or crimes. Even those proficient in the national language may feel more able to deal with complex administrative issues and engage with legal entities and the courts in their mother tongue. Minorities have reported being denied the opportunity to be assisted, free of charge, by a translator or interpreter where they do not understand or speak the language of the tribunal or court. In practice, solutions include employment of those proficient in minority languages in relevant positions, such as specialist liaison staff for minority communities. Positive practices have been employed by police services in some countries, including community policing methodologies that promote the recruitment of minority officers who speak minority languages and their deployment in minority localities.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on minority issues
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 58
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