ELEN Press Releases

The European Language Equality Network (ELEN) has submitted its second report for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Spain to the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The ELEN Report finds that several public institutions continue to...

UK Government Communities Minister, Lord Bourne, announced £200,000 funding for Cornish language and culture at the UK National Minorities Summit held on Friday, hosted by Cornwall Council in Falmouth, Cornwall. Responding to the Minister, European Language Equality...

Language commissioners, ombudsmen and language rights experts from around the world gathered in downtown Toronto last week for the sixth annual conference of the International Association of Language Commissioners (IALC) hosted by the office of the Ontario Ombudsman,...

Òmnium Cultural and the European Language Equality Network have denounced the violation of Catalan civil rights at the 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva issuing two written statements, oral statements, and jointly hosting an official...

The European Language Equality Network (ELEN) and the Catalan NGO Òmnium Cultural have submitted two written statements, and will hold a side event, on human rights violations in Catalonia at the upcoming UN Human Rights Council 41st session starting on Monday...

Experts, international institutions, NGOs and State representatives gathered at the first European Forum for Minorities, held in Brussels on May 6-7th and focusing on Education, Language and the Human Rights of Minorities. Recommendations from the Forum will feed into...

The European Language Equality Network has renewed its call for an EU Languages Commissioner and an Endangered Languages Directive. Speaking at the prestigious Forum for Minorities held in the European Parliament on Monday, ELEN Secretary-General Davyth Hicks called...

ELEN held its first 2019 Steering Committee meeting in Brussels on Sunday hosted by the Delegation of the Catalan Government to the EU. The Steering Committee was delighted to welcome Representative of the Government of Catalonia to the EU, Ms Meritxell Serret i Aleu,...

Forum on Minority Issues 2019 (Europe)  Education, Language and the Human Rights of Minorities May 6th-7th 2019, European Parliament, Brussels Call for Participants "The rights of linguistic minorities are human rights that must be respected, including in relation to...

ELEN member organization Plataforma per la Llengua launched the exhibition "The Catalan language: 10 million voices” in the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday 4th March with an address by former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont. The event was hosted with...

“Language is core to our identity, it is the carrier of history, traditions, customs and folklore from one generation to another. Without language, no culture can sustain its existence.”  Said Ferran Suay, European Language Equality Network (ELEN) President, in a...

The European Language Equality Network (ELEN) with its Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Cornish member organisations, has issued a joint statement over the potentially disastrous effect of Brexit on the Celtic languages and are calling on the UK and devolved governments to...