Equality of opportunity in education 2011, para. 63
Paragraphe- Paragraph text
- The lack of education in mother-tongue or native languages is often a source of exclusion. This is particularly relevant for minorities and migrants. Estimates indicate that around 221 million children speak a different language at home from the language of instruction in school, limiting their ability to develop foundations for later learning. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, establishes in article 4(3) that States should take appropriate measures so that, wherever possible, persons belonging to minorities may have adequate opportunities to learn their mother tongue or to have instruction in their mother tongue. Moreover, available experience shows that a child learns better in his or her mother tongue in the formative stages and initial period of education.
- Status juridique
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Année
- 2011
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Reference
- SR Education, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/17/29, para. 63.
- Paragraph number
- 63
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