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In this section you can consult relevant international rulings that include dispositions or deal directly with language issues and the rights of their speakers produced by UNO, UNESCO, International Labor Organization (ILO), Organiztion for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Council of Europe (CoE) and European Union (EU). And also other international documents that approach linguistic rights, minorities and language issues.

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COUNCIL OF EUROPE

0.5.1. Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Rome, 4 November 1950)
0.5.2. Recommendation 1067 on the cultural dimension of broadcasting in Europe, of 1987
0.5.3. European Convention on Transfrontier Television ets number 132 Strasbourg on 5 May 1989
0.5.4. Recommendation 1134 on the rights of minorities, of 1990
0.5.5. European Charter of Regional and Minority Languages approved the 29 of June 1992 by the Council of Ministers Convention of the Council of Europe
0.5.6. European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, of 1992. List of signatures and ratifications
0.5.7. Recommendation 1177 (1992)1 on the rights of minorities
0.5.8. Declaration of the Heads of State and Government of the member States of the Council of Europe, meeting for the first time in this organisations's history at this Vienna summit conference on 9 October 1993
0.5.9. Recommendation 1201 on an additional protocol on the rights of national minorities to the European Convention on Human Rights, of 1993
0.5.10. Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, 1 February 1995
0.5.11. Recommendation 1255 on the protection of the rigths of national minorities, of 1995
0.5.12. Recommendation 1353 on access of minorities to higher education, of 1998
0.5.13. Protocol No. 12 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Rome, 4.XI.2000
0.5.14. Declaration on cultural diversity, adopted by the Committee of Ministers at the 733º meeting of the Ministers' Deputies, on 7 December 2000
0.5.15. Recommendation 1492 rights of national minorities, of 2001.Text adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 23 January 2001 (3rd Sitting)
0.5.16. Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society, 27 October 2005 (CETS No.: 199) Entry into force pending [en, fr]
0.5.17. Convention on the avoidance of statelessness in relation to State succession, 19 May 2006 (CETS No.: 200) Entry into force pending [en, fr]
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