Māori rights to language protection in New Zealand within the scope of human rights protection
Māori rights to language protection in New Zealand within the scope of human rights protection
Author(s): Tatiana TökölyováSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta sociálních věd
Keywords: Māori; national identity; language; ethnicity; ethnic diversity; assimilation; Treaty of Waitangi; protection
Summary/Abstract: This paper analysis protection of Māori language while providing the most fundamental and crucial elements and moments of its status in the past and gradual revitalisation through implementation of international obligations of New Zealand and the national legal framework. It points out mainly at the language aspect of the human rights protection through analysing the loss of monolingual character of the country through bilingualism to the present multilingualism in the background of human rights protection, namely protection of right to language and culture.
Journal: ALPPI Annual of Language & Politics and Politics of Identity
- Issue Year: VI/2012
- Issue No: 06
- Page Range: 141-157
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English