ELEN Press Releases

UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, Fernand de Varennes, made his final report to the UN The Human Rights Council on Thursday (March 23rd). Noting the overall lack of progress and backsliding in minority protection globally since the 1992 Declaration on...

The UN Forum for Minorities celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of Minorities in December in Geneva on the theme "Review. Rethink. Reform." ELEN President Elin Haf Gruffudd Jones spoke at an official side event organised by the Catalan...

The ELEN General Assembly Caerdydd 2022 broke new ground this year with a record number of participants, a new format which helped to highlight the various challenges facing European lesser-used languages today, as well as having full support from the Welsh Government...

Bydd ELEN, sef The European Language Equality Network, prif fudiad Ewrop ar gyfer gwarchod a hyrwyddo ieithoedd lleiafrifol, yn cynnal Cynulliad Cyffredinol yng Nghaerdydd ddiwedd mis Hydref. Bydd y digwyddiad yn cael ei gefnogi gan Lywodraeth Cymru a Phrifysgol Cymru...

The European Language Equality Network (ELEN), Europe’s leading organisation for the protection and promotion of lesser-used languages, will be holding its General Assembly in Cardiff at the end of October. The event will be hosted by the Llywodraeth Cymru (Welsh...

UN Special Procedures have issued an official communication to the French state noting their concerns over discrimination against territorial languages following the Constitutional Court’s intervention against the Molac Law in July 2021. The Communication is a...

The Summer School "Minority Languages: Rights and Practices" will be held in the University of Valencia campus in Gandia, Pais Valencia, from Monday 18th July to Friday 22nd July. It features a packed programme opening with UN Special Rapporteur for Minorities, Dr....

The European Language Equality Network has made eight recommendations to the Conference on the Future of Europe on how to improve the situation for European minoritised languages, many of which face critical endangerment. The recommendations were discussed with MEPs...

(Catalan version below) The European Language Equality Network, the international organization for the protection, promotion and well-being of territorial and endangered European languages, strongly condemns the Supreme Court decision against Catalan-medium education...

ELEN elects new President and Steering Committee. Calls for repeal of 2010 plurilingualism law; equality for Galician, Basque and Catalan in new audiovisual law; that Galician-medium education be provided at all levels of education; notes general failure of the EU to...

The President of the Galician Parliament, Miguel Santalices Vieira, opened the ELEN General Assembly in Santiago de Compostela on Friday with a packed event held in the splendid surroundings of the Pazo de Fonseca, and featuring the Galician pop singer Guadi Galego....

The European Language Equality Network (ELEN) General Assembly will be held in Santiago de Compostela, Galiza, on Saturday 13th November and hosted by the leading Galician language NGO, A Mesa pola Normalización Lingüística, and bringing together representatives of...