A summary of the IDIL launch event‘s inputs is provided here in keeping with Linguapax’s commitment to disseminating the activities and substance of the Decade. Last December 16th, 2022, at the UN headquarters of New York, was the high level event to launch the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022–2032. The President of the General Assembly, Mr. Csaba Kőrösi, opened the ceremony by referring to XVIII c. Samuel Johnson’s words,…
On January 9, 2023, the 2022 Linguapax Award was presented to the ADN Maya collective. Pat Boy, leader and co-founder of ADN Maya along with Tania Jiménez, received the award from Josep Cru and José A. Flores Farfán, representatives of Linguapax International and the Linguapax delegation in Latin America, respectively. The event took place in the theatre of the city of Felipe Carrillo Puerto in the state of Quintana Roo…
The 19th Executive Board of the Multilingual Intercultural Cooperation Network (RECIM) was held on 25 November, the first since the pandemic suspended its activity. The initiative was taken by the Paraguayan Ministry of Education and Science, which leads the Executive Committee of the Network. It was attended by representatives of the Chilean Ministry of Education, the National University of Colombia, the Paraguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Secretary of…
Linguapax participated at the UNESCO NGO Forum: Mobilising NGOs for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages and Ocean Decade, which took place on 21-22 November in Ottawa, Canada. It gathered NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO, but it was also open to the participation of other institutions and representatives of Member States. The main objective of the Forum was to identify concrete examples of good practices and grass-root actions as…
Linguapax International is collaborating in the III International Conference on Revitalisation of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages to be held between 13 and 16 September 2022 at the University of Girona. The Conference will be a meeting point for people working towards the revitalization of indigenous and minoritised languages around the world in order to exchange and disseminate ideas, experiences and knowledge. Our organization participates through the following activities: Panels: Languages,…
On 20 May, in a one-day webinar, UNESCO presented its recent publication “State of the Art – Indigenous Languages in Research: A Collection of Selected Research Papers”. The authors presented their work and engaged in a dialogue on the state of Indigenous language research across different topics. The volume is the result of a collective effort which started in December 2018, when a global call for papers was launched, marking…
The CD Creación Musical en Lenguas Originarias is a project that was made in collaboration with artists, both women and men, from different communities who speak different native languages. Among them we find the Mixe and Mayan rappers “Mixe-Represent”, from Tamazulapan del Espíritu Santo (Oaxaca), and “Pat Boy”, native of Felipe Carrillo Puerto (Quintana Roo). Meanwhile, María Reyna from Tlahuitoltepec (Oaxaca), with a Bel Canto style, uses an opera technique…
Robert Phillipson, Professor Emeritus at the Copenhagen Business School and member of the Linguapax Advisory Board, dealt with the issue of Linguistic Hegemony on two occasions. The first was the Forum Vives “Objective 2025 on Universitary Language Policy”, at the University of Valencia, on 25 November 2021. In the opening lecture “Constraints and challenges in strengthening multilingualism in higher education”, he focused on the challenge shared by the universities that…
On 28 March, the president of Linguapax, Monica Pereña, and the Outreach Director-General of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Ignasi Genovès, inaugurated the exhibition “Languages do not die, they are killed”, which can be seen in the Palau Robert, Barcelona, until 8 May (free entry). The title of the exhibition is inspired by Yásnaya Aguilar Gil’s speech in the Chamber of Deputees of Mexico, on 26 February 2021, during an activity…
On 18 December 2019, the United Nations General Assembly, in its Resolution 74/135 (A/RES/74/135) on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, proclaimed the period 2022-2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. Many languages are today in danger of falling into disuse. The gradual disappearance of languages, particularly Indigenous ones, is connected, in practice, to the structural discrimination to which they have been subjected, to the vulnerable situation of their users…