A/HRC/43/47
8.
Please provide any other relevant information and statistics on access to education
by persons belonging to minorities, covering all educational levels. Such information may
include:
(a)
the number of educational institutions (public and private) at each education
level, in which minority languages, including sign languages, are either taught as a separate
subject or are used as mediums of instruction, and their proportion to the total number of
educational institutions. Please indicate the average weekly frequency of hours of teaching
both of and in minority languages;
(b)
the number of bi-/multi-lingual classes.
Submissions and inputs on the above-mentioned areas can be submitted in English,
French or Spanish and addressed to the Special Rapporteur by email to
minorityissues@ohchr.org by 30 September 2019.
Submissions and inputs will be considered public records unless otherwise
expressed by the submitter and will be published on the website of the Special Rapporteur.
B.
List of contributors
States:
Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Greece,
Hungary, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Norway, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Sweden,
Ukraine
International and Regional Organizations:
Council of Europe
EU Fundamental Rights Agency
UNESCO
UNHCR
UNICEF
National Human Rights Institutions:
Australian Human Rights Commission – Australia
Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos – Mexico
Defensor del pueblo de la nación – Argentina
Institucija ombudsmena/ombudsmana za ljudska prava – Bosnia and Herzegovina
Office of the Commissioner for Administration and the Protection of Human Rights
(Ombudsman) – Cyprus
Protector of Citizens (Ombudsman) – Serbia
Public Defender (Ombudsman) of Georgia – Georgia
Civil society organizations and Academia:
European Union of the Deaf
Human Rights Association – Turkey
International Campaign for Tibet
Minority Rights Group International
Scholars at Risk
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)
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