ELEN Press Releases
ELEN at the EESC Civil Society Week.
ELEN was at the EESC - European Economic and Social Committee Civil Society Week in March, which featured four days of discussions and presentations on how we better develop effective working relations between European civil society organisations and the EU...
UN Forum for Minority Issues: packed ELEN-ECMI side-event addresses concerns over minoritized language media
The European Language Equality Network, the international civil society organization working for the protection of European minoritized and endangered languages, held a side-event with the European Centre for Minority Issues on minoritized language media at last...
UN Forum for Minority Issues: ELEN calls for new UN Convention to protect minoritized, endangered and indigenous languages.
The European Language Equality Network, the international civil society organization working for the protection of European indigenous minoritised languages, has called for a new UN Convention to protect minoritised languages amidst an exponential rise in hate-speech...
ELEN Batzar Orokorra – General Assembly BILBO 2024.
Language activist organizations from across Europe gathered in the Basque Country for the ELEN General Assembly 2024, Europe’s main event for NGOs working for the protection and promotion of European minoritized languages. The European Language Equality Network (ELEN)...
European Language Equality Network backs Kontseilua Resolution that Basque is in a “linguistic emergency.”
At the 2024 European Language Equality Network (ELEN) General Assembly on Saturday (November 9th) in Bilbo, hosted by the Basque NGO Euskalgintzaren Kontseilua, ELEN delegates from across Europe voted in support of the Kontseilua Resolution that "Basque and the...
ELEN GENERAL ASSEMBLY- BATZAR OROKORRA, BILBO 2024, EUSKAL HERRIA.
Language activist organizations from across Europe are set to gather in the Basque Country for the ELEN General Assembly, Europe’s main event for NGOs working for the protection and promotion of European minoritized languages. The European Language Equality Network...
ELEN-Catesco Conference Report. Civil society organisations, international institutions and legal experts discuss methods to protect education in minoritized languages and strengthen language rights.
The ELEN-Catesco conference, co-organized with Òmnium Cultural and supported by the Catalan Government, held on June 15th in Barcelona focused on how European civil society organisations can better protect education in endangered and minoritized languages and...
European Language Equality Network meets in Barcelona to set agenda for improved language protection.
The European Language Equality Network Steering Committee met in the Catalan capital, Barcelona, on Friday 14th June to discuss the ELEN-Catesco conference on June 15th, its ongoing advocacy strategy, recent election results, the upcoming General Assembly in the...
Huge majority of Europeans, 84%, support protection for ‘regional’or minoritised languages, its time for the EU to act on that.
With 84% of Europeans agreeing that European endangered languages need to be protected, its vital that political parties act on this huge public support in the next European Parliament. ELEN, the international civil society organization for the protection and...
UN Special Rapporteur, Council of Europe, UNESCO in Barcelona for ELEN-CATESCO high level conference on strengthening language rights.
The UN Special Rapporteur for Minorities, the Council of Europe, UNESCO, and international experts on language rights will be in Barcelona on June 15th to speak at the ELEN-CATESCO International High Level Conference on protecting education in minoritized languages...
UN Forum on Minority Issues: ELEN calls for clear, unambiguous language rights and progressive language planning
This year’s UN Forum on Minority Issues focused on “Minorities and Cohesive Societies: Equality, Social Inclusion, and Socio-economic Participation” on 30 November and 1 December 2023 in Geneva. ELEN was strongly represented with the ELEN President, Secretary-General,...
Safeguarding European Indigenous Minority Languages, ELEN co-hosts languages event with national governments.
On Tuesday 28 November 2023, the Office of the Northern Ireland Executive Brussels, Channel Islands Brussels Office, Scottish Government Brussels, Welsh Government Brussels Office, the Isle of Man Government, and ELEN co-hosted a packed evening panel discussion event...