**** Hoi, I think this is relevant and of interest to us all... Thanks, GerardM

Report and related press release of interest...

The Minority Rights Group International (MRG) in collaboration with UNICEF has recently released their "State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2009," which includes a full chapter on Multilingual Education.

Links to the report: http://www.minorityrights.org/7948/state-of-the-worlds-minorities/state-of-t...

A press release focusing on Language: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47693 EDUCATION: Mother Tongue Absent in Thousands of Classrooms by Haider Rizvi

Article: Indigenous Languages: A View from UNICEF http://www.minorityrights.org/download.php?id=664