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-====== International legislation protecting minority languages ======
-==== Global legislation: ====
-=== United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) ===
-  * All members of the United Nations are expected to comply with its policies.
-  * Legally binding: no.
-  * Offers protection for: "indigenous peoples".
-  * View the Declaration [[http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf|here]].
-=== UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) ===
-  * [[http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/en/states-parties-00024|State parties who have ratified the Convention]] are expected to uphold its policies.
-  * Legally binding: no.
-  * Offers protection for "indigenous peoples".
-  * View the Convention  [[http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/en/convention|here]].
-=== ICO Convention Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (1989) ===
-  * [[http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=1000:11300:0::NO:11300:P11300_INSTRUMENT_ID:312314|State parties who have ratified the Convention]] are expected to uphold its policies.
-  * Legally binding: yes.
-  * Offers protection for: "indigenous peoples".
-  * View the Convention [[http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_ILO_CODE:C169|here]].
-==== European legislation: ====
-=== European Charter for Regional and Minority languages (1992) ===
-  * [[http://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list/-/conventions/treaty/148/signatures|State parties who have ratified the Charter]] are expected to uphold its policies.
-  * Legally binding: yes.
-  * Offers protection for "regional or minority languages” defined as languages traditionally used within a given territory of a state by nationals of that state who form a group numerically smaller than the rest of the state’s population; they are different from the official language(s) of that state, and they include neither dialects of the official language(s) of the state nor the languages of migrants.
-  * View the text of the Charter  [[http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/minlang/aboutcharter/default_en.asp|here]].
-The provisions in the Charter are divided into two parts:
-  * a set of general provisions applying to all regional or minority languages (Part II)
-  * a set of additional provisions, to which a member state can subscribe a language (Part III).
-Look [[http://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/search-on-treaties/-/conventions/treaty/148/declarations|here]] for an overview of which language is protected by which part.