Linguistic right in the organization of american states: a study of cases of inadmissibility in the inter-american commission on human rights
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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2023.v19n3a60426Keywords:
Conflitos linguísticos. Direito linguístico. Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos. Inadmissibilidades. Minorias linguísticasAbstract
This article aims to investigate the performance of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights – IACHR with regard to the non-recognition of violations of linguistic rights, considering the complaints motivated by linguistic conflicts in countries linked to the Organization of American States-OAS, specifically those that were identified in the publications of reports on cases of inadmissibility by the IACHR. We seek to understand the notion of human linguistic rights with which the IACHR operates and, to this end, we seek to demonstrate the possible transgressions reported by linguistic minorities against OAS member states, since the IACHR has, among its functions, to receive and analyze the complaints to decide whether they materialize a violation of human rights, with this analysis resulting in the admissibility or inadmissibility of the complaint in that forum. For this research, 695 (six hundred and ninety-five) cases were analyzed through reports published by the IACHR between the years 1970 and 2022. The referential and conceptual bases used in the present study include the notions of Linguistic Law of Abreu (2020); Sigales-Gonçalves (2020), the proposition of the idea of Linguistic Conflict by Daves and Dubinsky (2018), the concept of social conflict by Honneth (2003), the conceptual assumptions of the field of Language Policies by Ricento (2006) and Severo (2020), as well as the idea of minority presented by Wucher (2000). With the analysis we reached a number of 16 (sixteen) unadmitted cases related to the complaints which included the possibility of violation of human linguistic rights.
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