A/HRC/43/62 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 22 January 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February–20 March 2020 Agenda item 5 Human rights bodies and mechanisms Recommendations of the Forum on Minority Issues at its twelfth session on the theme “Education, language and the human rights of minorities” Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues* Summary The recommendations in the present report draw primarily from the discussions and contributions made by participants at the twelfth session of the Forum on Minority Issues, held on 28 and 29 November 2019 on the theme “Education, language and the human rights of minorities” and conducted under four thematic panel discussions on (a) human rights and minority language education; (b) public policy objectives for education in, and the teaching of, minority languages; (c) effective practices for education in, and the teaching of, minority languages; and (d) language, education and the empowerment of minority women and girls. The recommendations are based on international law and standards. They aim to provide guidance to further implement the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities. * Agreement was reached to publish the present report after the standard publication date owing to circumstances beyond the submitter’s control. GE.20-00936(E) 