Language rights and illiteracy</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Language rights and illiteracy"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Language,rights,and,illiteracy"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">15-12-2004</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Language rights and illiteracy</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_lEaz9AemeSMZMj80AUYC_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Yaoundé, Cameroon (AllAfrica): A meeting was held in Yaoundé on December 11 to help the Mbororo people understand their rights. The Mbororo represent about 12 per cent of the total population in Cameroon but suffer language discrimination, such that the illiteracy rate among the Mbororos in the country is 85 per cent. <br>Mrs Bouba Hawe, president of the Women’s Social and Welfare Committee, explained that indigenous people are a "marginalised minority group of people who have either totally or partially maintained their language, culture, traditions, mode of life and history which distinguish them from the dominant ethnic groups in society". <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.allafrica.com/stories/200412141093.html " target="blank">www.allafrica.com/stories/200412141093.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show