Your company recently announced a speak-English-only policy and your supervisor has told you not to ever speak Cantonese to your coworkers while at work.

Example of language rights. Language rights are human rights and civil rights of the individual and collective right to choose the language or languages for communication in public or private atmosphere. In its day the language of the constitution was a model of clarity but it often no longer means what it appears to say. The coming to power of Prime Minister Lester B.

Language would prove no exception. Nations that try to respect the language rights of their people do so by first identifying the language communities within their nation. Rights also equalize - they are universal and apply to everyone adults and children alike and remove the power dynamic that can occur when an adult tries to enforce rules.

What are examples of human rights violations. Constitutional convention and Supreme Court interpretation have worked significant changes so that understanding the American constitution is not an easy matter. Unless language rights can be shown to be grounded in moral considerations then the centrality which the Charter accords them is illusory.

Rights language requires ongoing negotiation critical thinking and creative problem solving. In cases where extreme violations of human rights have occurred reconciliation and peacebuilding become much more difficult. To maintain their native language and should they so desire to pass it on to their children.

Canada too navigated its way toward national liberation and toward the acquisition and advancement of language rights. Africa language rights are aimed at protecting languages spoken by the majority of the people against dominant languages such as English French Portuguese and sometimes other dominant African languages Docrat and Kaschula 2015. Phillips Rosas 1995 1376.

English and French are a fundamental characteristic of the Canadian identity and the importance of language rights is clearly recognized in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms part of the Constitution Act of 1982. That demonstrate the ideal example of what we mean by language rights. Namyalo and Nakayiza 2015.