Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination
By Unknown
- 2008
Edited by Tove Skuttnab-Kangas and Robert Phillipson, this volume describes what linguistic human rights are, who has and who does not have them and why, and suggests which linguistic rights should be regarded as basic human rights.
Communication rights enable all people everywhere to express themselves individually and collectively by all means of communication. They are vital to full participation in society and are, therefore, universal human rights belonging to every man, woman, and child.