A collection of essays on linguistic human rights includes: "Combining Immigrant and Autochthonous Language Rights: A Territorial Approach to Multilingualism" (Francois Grin); "On the Limits of Ethnolinguistic Democracy" (Joshua A. Fishman); "Linguistic Human Rights and Educational Policy in Russia" (Alexei A. Leontiev); "Linguistic Human Rights, Past and Present" (Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson); "Typology of Language Legislation" (Joseph-G. Turi); "Personal Names and Human Rights" (Bjorn H. Jernudd); "Language Policy in the United States: A History of Cultural Genocide" (Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez); "The Discourse of Disinformation: The Debate on Bilingual Education and Language Rights in the United States" (Jim Cummins); "Beyond Linguistic Policy: The Soviet Union versus Estonia" (Mart Rannut); "Maori Language Rights in New Zealand" (Timoti S. Karetu); "The Sami Language Act" (Ole Henrik Magga); "Australia's Language Policies and Minority Rights: A Core Value Perspective" (J. J. Smolicz); "Combating Educational Disadvantage Among Lebanese Australian Children" (John Gibbons, William White, Pauline Gibbons); "Indigenous Education in Latin America: Policies and Legal Frameworks" (Rainer Enrique Hamel); "Linguistic Rights for Amerindian Peoples in Latin America" (Hamel); "'Minority' Cultures and Their Communication Rights" (Lachman M. Khubchandani); "Kashmiri, a Majority-Minority Language: An Exploratory Essay" (Makhan L. Tickoo); "and "Killing a Mother Tongue--How the Kurds Are Deprived of Linguistic Human Rights" (Skutnabb-Kangas, Sertac Bucak). Appended are extracts from selected United Nations and regional documents covering linguistic human rights. Contains a consolidated bibliography and an index. (MSE)