Language Rights Save Lives | SOAS University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2023-02-27

Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change.

SOAS Linguistics Seminar
Language Rights Save Lives

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Copenhagen Business School)
Robert Phillipson (Copenhagen Business School)
Ahmed Kabel (Al Akhawayn University)
Shivani Nag (Ambedkar University Delhi) 

Abstract: Safeguarding language rights in critical services like healthcare, education, and crisis management also protects human lives, and ensuring linguistic justice has positive health impacts. In this panel discussion, four experts will discuss how language rights save lives, as part of a broader, worldwide discussion of this issue on Global Language Advocacy 2023. We will also launch the recently published Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights, a landmark publication exploring the intersection of human rights and languages. The two editors of this book will join us, along with two contributors to the volume.