Minority Language Rights

Rearticulating the Case for Minority Language Rights

While advocacy of minority language rights (MLR) has become well established in sociolinguistics, language policy and planning and the wider human rights literature, it has also come under increased criticism in recent times for a number of key limitations. In this paper, I address directly three current key criticisms of theMLRmovement. The first is aperceived tendency towards essentialism in ...

Multiculturalism and Minority Rights: West and East

Early Warning and Minority Rights in Russian Federation

The article provides a critical commentary to current use of the concept "minority" in Russia, particularly in academic and political discourse. The direct borrowing of the concept as it exists in internationallaw or western social sciences is prevented by a number oflimitations inherent to its meaning, the main limitation being that Russia could not be properly characterised as a democracy. Th...

Minority rights, integration and education in the Western Balkans

Using the lenses of minority rights and developments in education in the Western Balkans, this article analyses the adaptability of the European minority protection framework and identifies ongoing challenges in relation to its implementation. It focuses in particular on the balance between the accommodation of minority education rights and integration, arguing that there is an inherent flexibi...

MPEG-21 Rights Expression Language: Enabling Interoperable Digital Rights Management

he Internet has spawned a revolution in the way people distribute content and access services. At the same time, the availability of broadband and wireless networks has increased, as have the capability and portability of computing and consumer electronic devices. These factors have fueled the development of new technologies to automate, manage, and secure content flow and service access over t...