Ahwaz News Agency February 27, 2014
Paris, France. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, hosted a conference on multilingualism and multilingual education in Iran on International Mother Language Day.
Representatives of NGOs, human rights organizations, civil society and political organizations belonging to non-Persian nationalities in Iran met with educational and linguistic specialists at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on February 21, on the occasion of International Mother Language Day 2014. UNESCO hosted this event on the right to multilingualism in Iran, where over two-thirds of the population has a mother tongue other than Persian.