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Sometimes the UN comes up with decent rapports but often that's swept under the carpet right after.

UN Calls Out Estonia Over Anti-Russian Law

Estonia could be violating human rights by introducing legislation that effectively eliminates minority language education in the country, UN human rights experts warned in a report published on Thursday.

The new measures mainly affect Estonia’s Russian-speaking community, with ethnic Russians officially making up nearly a quarter of the population.

“Recent legislative amendments appear to severely restrict education in Estonia’s minority languages by making the transition to Estonian-language education compulsory for all pre-school and school institutions, including those operating in a minority language or bilingual institutions,” UN experts said in a report shared on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) website.
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Celata 2y ago

Having an official state language is not in violation of any human rights legislation, however. Otherwise pretty much every country in the world would be in violation of it. Preventing people from speaking a language would be, but they are not doing that. They aren't under any obligation to provide free education in any particular language that minorities might want.

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78e47dfe... 2y ago

Maybe, but don't act like this isn't an effect of the xenophobia spreading across the West since the conflict.

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Celata 2y ago

Do you also characterize Russia kidnapping Ukrainian children and only teaching them (by which I mean of course indoctrinate them) in Russian language instead of Ukrainian as "xenophobia"? Or it only works one way?