Minorities & Indigenous

This Guide provides an overview of economic, social and cultural rights and how they can be applied to minorities and indigenous peoples. Aimed at minority and indigenous activists and those working with them, each chapter has been written by an expert on a different right. Education rights are addressed by Duncan Wilson on p.55 – 67.

Each chapter focuses upon a different ESC right and describes the legal standards, the various enforcement mechanisms, and guidelines for successful civil society advocacy.

The report provides a conceptual framework for minority rights in and through education and includes an analytical review of legal and practical developments in the four countries (Estonia, Latvia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Romania) involved in negotiations with the European Union. The result highlights huge divergence in practice in minority education, and a lack of clarity in just what the EU promotes.

An update of the decisions made by the European Court of Human Rights from 2007-2010, on the right to education of Roma children.

In a unique collaboration with UNICEF, Minority Rights Group International reports on what minority and indigenous children around the world face in their struggle to learn. This report profiles the programmes that are being developed to help them – from better bilingual education to meeting the needs of nomadic populations – giving examples of what works and why. It describes efforts to overcome exclusion so that education is available, accessible, acceptable and adaptable for minorities and indigenous peoples, and shows how far there is still to go.

Nombre de familles de Roms migrants s’attachent a faire en sorte que leurs enfants puisse être scolarisés et maintenir ainsi un pont culturel entre leur communauté et « le reste du monde ». Pourtant, la vie itinérante, le démantèlement régulier des campements et le rejet dont sont objet les communautés sont un lourd handicap dans leur parcours d’intégration. L’école de la République permet de maintenir ou ce créer ce lien social et certaines familles l’ont bien compris.

El objeto principal de este guía es proporcionar una herramienta practica para la implementación de los derechos indígenas a los Gobiernos,  Indígenas y Tribales, trabajadores y empleadores de organizaciones, basándose en la experiencia, buenas prácticas y lecciones aprendidas que fueron generados hasta ahora.

El capítulo 10 (paginas 128-136) concierne a la educación

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La Declaración establece un marco universal de estándares mínimos para la dignidad, bienestar y derechos de los pueblos indígenas del mundo. La Declaración establece un marco universal de estándares mínimos para la supervivencia, dignidad, bienestar y derechos de los pueblos indígenas del mundo. La Declaración aborda, entre otras temáticas los derechos individuales y colectivos incluyendo aspectos referentes a la identidad cultural, la educación, el empleo y el idioma.

This report documents how the the Czech authorities are violating the human rights of Romani children in schools across the country. Romani children in the Czech Republic have for decades suffered systemic discrimination in primary education. Many are placed in so-called practical schools designated for pupils with mild mental disabilities. Those in mainstream schools are often segregated in Roma-only schools and classes or otherwise treated differently. Reports of racial bullying and ostracisation by non-Roma pupils, and even open prejudice by some teachers, are frequent.

The following articles relevant to the justiciability of the right to education can be found in this INTERIGHTS Bulletin: