Plataforma per la Llengua demands that language-based hate speech should be recognised as a form of discrimination, as the first step to finding a solution to it, and issues a reminder that these attacks are not occurring in isolation 

The organisation wants moderation systems on technological platforms to protect speakers of minoritised languages  

Maria de Lluc Muñoz, Plataforma per la Llengua's officer responsible for international affairs, is taking part in the 18th session of the Forum on Minority Issues in Geneva on Thursday and Friday

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The two resolutions, presented by Plataforma per la Llengua, have been approved at the General Assembly of the European Language Equality Network (ELEN), which took place last weekend in Barcelona

The motion approved calls on France to guarantee universal access to bilingual public education from nursery to baccalaureate; to replace short initiation sessions with structured lessons; to take on more teachers; and to recognise Catalan as a baccalaureate examination subject

The ELEN European network has 174 member organisations representing 50 languages from 25 different European States

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Plataforma per la Llengua has attended a forum organised at Leeuwarden/Ljouwert (Frisia, Netherlands) by the European Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity (NPLD) and the Coppieters Foundation

The congress allowed us to find out about experiments to promote minoritised languages in the audiovisual field by institutions, festivals, media, and Frisian, Irish, Sard, Basque, Welsh, Faroese and other cultural promotion bodies More info about "We attend a conference in Frisia about European audiovisual production in minoritised languages"

FUEN has agreed to support the amendment of various articles of the Judicial System Act, ask the courts to guarantee the effective equality of Catalan in the legal system and call on the European Commission to investigate the violation of language rights in this area

Plataforma per la Llengua, the only body from the Catalan-speaking territories in the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), promoted the resolution at the organisation's 69th Congress, held at Bozen-Bulzan-Bolzano in South Tyrol

It is the first FUEN congress where Plataforma per la Llengua has taken part as a full member and it also elected Olivia Schubert as the new president of the main organisation in Europe that protects national and language minorities More info about "The European FUEN network urges Spain to promote legal reforms to guarantee language equality in the judicial sphere"

On Friday in the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review, Spain pledged for the first time to protect the rights of its native language communities

This April, Plataforma per la Llengua achieved a historic milestone: four States (including Austria and Ireland) made recommendations to Spain to improve the rights of language minorities

Òscar Escuder, president of Plataforma per la Llengua, spoke this afternoon at the UN Human Rights Council to call on Spain to work to put these recommendations into practice to ensure that the future of the Catalan language is not endangered

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On Thursday and Friday, the closing sessions of Spain's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) took place in Geneva. The review cycle continues on Monday with a general session in which Òscar Escuder, president of Plataforma per la Llengua, will participate

Plataforma per la Llengua, which was present at the session dedicated to Spain, notes the commitments made and urges the Spanish State to implement them immediately

This April, as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN Human Rights Council, four states (including Austria and Ireland) called on Spain to commit to the rights of linguistic minorities

In these past few months, Plataforma per la Llengua has been in contact with representatives from several states to inform them of the violations of linguistic rights in Spain, as detailed in a report presented in October More info about "We welcome that the Spanish State has, for the first time, committed itself to strengthening linguistic rights in a UN review, and we will ensure that it complies with this commitment"

Plataforma per la Llengua was speaking at HIGA, an international meeting for young people who speak minoritised languages, held in the Basque capital, attracting more than 85 representatives of 68 languages from all over the world

Maria de Lluc Muñoz, Plataforma per la Llengua's international affairs officer, took part in a round table that compared the language situation on various Mediterranean islands considering the impact of tourism and gentrification

The organisation has already set out its analysis that a tourism-based model like the one operating in the Catalan-speaking territories does not help new arrivals adopt the language at various seminars, and it will do so at another on the same subject on Eivissa at the beginning of August  More info about "We highlight the relationship between the touristification of the Balearic Islands and the loss of social use of Catalan in the archipelago, at a forum in Vitoria"

Catalan is now on all the signage at the German company's only office in Catalan-speaking territories, as well as the arrivals and departures screens and the ticket vending machine

The organisation congratulates FlixBus for always showing willingness to include Catalan, and calls on the Government of Catalonia to make the language's importance clear to international companies

FlixBus, sponsor of the UEFA Europa League, is the leader in low-cost road passenger transport, offering long-distance routes in most European countries

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Maria de Lluc Muñoz, head of international affairs at Plataforma per la Llengua, attends the annual General Assembly of the Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity (NPLD), taking place in Pamplona between Wednesday and Friday

Anna Jungner-Nordgren, from the consultative parliament of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland (Folktinget), is chosen as the new Chair of the NPLD on a board that will have the Catalan Roger Serra, representing the Government of Catalonia, as its new Vice-Chair

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Plataforma per la Llengua takes advantage of the commemoration of Europe Day to project a poster in front of the European Commission headquarters in Barcelona criticising its lack of respect for European diversity if Catalan is not accepted as an official language

Official status is still lying in a file on the EU Council's desk, with the Polish presidency apparently willing to put it back on the agenda More info about "We demand official status for Catalan in the EU in a projection mapping with a critical slant at La Pedrera in Barcelona"