Monday, May 24, 2010

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Dr. Fernand de Varennes Linguistic Rights expert visits Peru




Peruvians What do we know about our language rights? What we are aware of their rights and protect us protecting our exercise of power talk our mother tongue freely?

The arrival from Australia of whom is now considered one of the experts on language rights in the world brings up these questions. The visit of Dr. Fernand de Varennes to Peru is fundamental to become aware of this valuable information, this includes those who have Castilian as their mother tongue and for Peruvians whose native language is one of the many native languages \u200b\u200bof the country.

Dr. De Varennes is a lawyer and university professor at Murdoch University in Australia. In 2004 he received the Linguapax (Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSpain) as recognition his exceptional work in the field of linguistic diversity and multilingual education. He has worked with numerous organizations such as the Law Working Group of Minorities of the UN, UNESCO and the High Commissioner for Minorities of the OSCE. He was Director of Asia-Pacific Centre for Human Rights and the Prevention of Ethnic Conflict Founder and Chief Editor of Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law. It also received the prestigious Fellowship of the Tip O'Neill Peace in the INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity) in Derry, Northern Ireland, and was nominated in 2004 for the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights (Gwangju, Korea South).

Dr de Varennes is known internationally for his research in international law, human rights, minorities and ethnic conflicts, and has worked with numerous international organizations such as the Working Group on the Rights of Minorities of the UN, UNESCO and the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the OSCE. Is a consulting member of numerous research centers and journals around the world. He has taught at many institutions of different countries and universities in Tokyo, Japan, in Kathmandu in Manado, Indonesia, South Korea, in Pretoria, South Africa, in Bolzano, Italy, Bilbao, Pécs in Hungary, the Sorbonne in Paris , France, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Finland.

has published five books and over sixty scientific papers and reports. His major publications include a series of reports for Minority Rights International on minorities in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and East Asia and a UNESCO report on the rights of migrant workers. Currently working on a new book on language rights and a series of three volumes on ethnic and internal conflicts in the world. His works have been published in twenty languages \u200b\u200b(Albanian, Armenian, Azeri, Catalan, English, farsi, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Kurdish, Japanese, Latvian, Macedonian, Romany, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, English, Swedish and Turkish).
Dr de Varennes
stands now as one of the legal experts on Linguistic Human Rights in the world. The reason for his visit is to inaugurate the Second Degree in Indigenous Rights, Intercultural and Environment. His two lectures will be held the first in the Congress in Lima, "The linguistic rights of indigenous peoples in the light of international law" and the second lecture will be May 28 in Cusco, the Inca Museum through the Universidad San Antonio Abad of Cusco, and is entitled Language and Power: The Importance of language rights for indigenous people. Efforts to bring the expert have been made by the professor of the University of New York Miryam Yataco who is an international consultant on issues of EIB and linguistic rights.

For more information about the presence of Dr. De Vareness in South America and Peru, contact Miryam Yataco at 9-9247-3551 or e-mail address derechoslinguisticos@yahoo.com

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