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Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:17 AM<br>Subject: Ed. 28 - September -2009 . Juristes per la Llengua<br>To: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@ccat.sas.upenn.edu">haroldfs@ccat.sas.upenn.edu</a><br><br><br>
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<td colspan="3"><b>Catalan Language News 28 - September -2009 . Juristes per la Llengua</b> </td></tr>
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<td bgcolor="#7a7a7a"><b><font color="white" size="3">WHO ARE WE?</font></b><br></td></tr>
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<td>The Catalan Language Observatory was set up in 2004 by cultural organisations from all the Catalan-speaking lands, with the purpose of monitoring the Catalan language rigorously and objectively.<br><br></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<td bgcolor="#7a7a7a"><b><font color="white" size="3">MEMBERSHIP</font></b><br></td></tr>
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<td><b>The following organisations are members of the Observatory:</b><br>· <a href="http://www.acpv.net/php/index.php" target="_blank">Acció Cultural del País Valencià</a><br>· <a href="http://www.juristesperlallengua.cat/" target="_blank">Associació de Juristes per la llengua </a><br>
· <a href="http://www.acpv.net/casals/fraga.html" target="_blank">Casal Jaume I de Fraga</a><br>· <a href="http://www.acpv.net/casals/perpinya.html" target="_blank">Casal Jaume I de Perpinyà</a><br>· <a href="http://www.ciemen.cat/" target="_blank">Centre Internacional Escarré per a les Minories Ètniques i les Nacions</a> (CIEMEN)<br>
· <a href="http://www.unescocat.org/en" target="_blank">Centre Unesco de Catalunya</a><br>· <a href="http://www.linguistic-declaration.org/index-gb.htm" target="_blank">Comitè de Seguiment de la Declaració Universal de Drets Lingüístics</a> <br>
· <a href="http://www.cicac.org/" target="_blank">Consell de Col·legis d'Advocats de Catalunya</a><br>· <a href="http://pro.wanadoo.fr/catnet/Culturalnord.html" target="_blank">Culturalnord</a><br>· <a href="http://www.fundccc.cat/" target="_blank">Fundació Congrés de Cultura Catalana</a><br>
· <a href="http://www.linguapax.org/en/homeang.html" target="_blank">Institut Linguapax</a><br>· <a href="http://www.ocbweb.org/" target="_blank">Obra Cultural Balear</a><br>· <a href="http://www.ua.es/spv/observatori" target="_blank">Observatori de la Universitat d'Alacant </a><br>
· <a href="http://www.omnium.cat/" target="_blank">Omnium Cultural</a><br>· <a href="http://www.omnium.cat/index.php?cov_ID=22" target="_blank">Omnium Cultural de l'Alguer</a><br>· <a href="http://www.om-plural.org/indexeng.html" target="_blank">Organització pel Multilingüisme</a><br>
· <a href="http://www.plataforma-llengua.cat/" target="_blank">Plataforma per la llengua</a><br><br><b>With the support of:</b><br>· <a href="http://www.iec.cat/gc/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=148&languageId=1&contentId=-1" target="_blank">Institute of Catalan Studies</a><br>
· <a href="http://www.tv3.cat/ptvcatalunya/tvcHome.jsp" target="_blank">Television of Catalonia</a><br>· <a href="http://www.llengua.info/" target="_blank">IJLV </a>- the Joan Lluís Vives Institute -, whose members are the following universities: <br>
- <a href="http://www.uao.es/cream/?site=uao&page=1&idioma=ca" target="_blank">Abat Oliba CEU University</a><br>- <a href="http://www.uab.es/servlet/Satellite?cid=1101231878924&pagename=UAB%2FPage%2FTemplateHomeUAB" target="_blank">Autonomous University of Barcelona</a><br>
- <a href="http://www.unica.edu/primera.uic" target="_blank">International University of Catalonia</a> <br>- <a href="http://www.uji.es/UK/basic" target="_blank">Jaume I University</a> <br>- <a href="http://www.umh.es/" target="_blank">Miguel Hernández University</a> (Elx)<br>
- <a href="http://www.uoc.edu/web/eng/index.html" target="_blank">Open University of Catalonia</a> <br>- <a href="http://www.upf.es/english/web" target="_blank">Pompeu Fabra University</a><br>- <a href="http://www.url.es/en/index.php" target="_blank">Ramon Llull University</a> <br>
- <a href="http://www.urv.es/en_index.html" target="_blank">Rovira i Virgili University</a> <br>- <a href="http://www.upc.edu/eng" target="_blank">Technical University of Catalonia</a><br>- <a href="http://www.upv.es/menui.html" target="_blank">Technical University of Valencia</a><br>
- <a href="http://www.ua.es/en/index.html" target="_blank">University of Alacant</a><br>- <a href="http://www.uda.ad/index.php" target="_blank">University of Andorra</a><br>- <a href="http://www.uib.es/en" target="_blank">University of the Balearic Islands</a><br>
- <a href="http://www.ub.edu/homeub/welcome.html" target="_blank">University of Barcelona</a><br>- <a href="http://www.udg.es/" target="_blank">University of Girona</a><br>- <a href="http://www.udl.es/perfils/visitors.html" target="_blank">University of Lleida</a><br>
- <a href="http://www.univ-perp.fr/" target="_blank">University of Perpinyà</a><br>- <a href="http://www.uv.es/~webuv/ingles/index.htm" target="_blank">University of Valencia</a><br>- <a href="http://www.uvic.cat/en/inici.html" target="_blank">University of Vic</a><br>
<br><b><b>With the support of</b>:</b><br><br>GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA<br><br>INSTITUT RAMON LLULL<br><br><br></td></tr>
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<td bgcolor="#7a7a7a"><b><font color="white" size="3">LINKS TO SITES WITH GENERAL INFORMATION ON CATALAN</font></b><br></td></tr>
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<td><a href="http://www.gencat.net/index_eng.htm" target="_blank">Generalitat de Catalunya</a> <b>Government of Catalonia</b><br><a href="http://www.caib.es/govern/index.jsp" target="_blank">Govern de les Illes Balears</a> <b>Government of the Balearic Islands</b><br>
<a href="http://http//www.gva.es/jsp/portalgv.jsp?br=1&re=1&co=es&chflash=true&force=si" target="_blank">Generalitat Valenciana</a> <b>Government of the Valencian Community</b><br><a href="http://www.parlament-cat.net/portal/page?_pageid=34,33596&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL" target="_blank">Parlament de Catalunya</a> <b>Parliament of Catalonia</b><br>
<a href="http://www.iec.cat/" target="_blank">IEC</a> <br><b>Institute of Catalan Studies</b><br><a href="http://www.llull.cat/llull/index.jsp?idioma=en" target="_blank">institut Ramon Llull</a> <br><b>Ramon Llull Institute </b><br>
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<td><b>Observatori de la llengua catalana</b><br>C/ de la Diputació, 276, pral.<br>08009 BARCELONA<br>info@observatoridelallengua.cat<br>00 34 93 319 80 50<br><br></td></tr></tr></tbody></table>
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<td><b><font size="3"><b>28 - September -2009 . Juristes per la Llengua </b></font></b><br><br><b>Juristes per la Llengua <br>(Jurists in pro of Language)<br><br>The struggle to normalize the use of Catalan in the legal systems <br>
<br>By MONTSE ROSELL, Journalist</b><br><br>Current legislation states that both Catalan and Spanish are official languages in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia. Therefore, they can both be used without distinction in all spheres of life, both public and private. However, the Catalan language is seriously marginalized in the legal system. This has lead to intolerabl e situations of conflict and discrimination affecting people using their own language.<br>
<br>In view of this situation, in 2003 the Association of Jurists for the Defence of our Language (AJDLP in Catalan) was established. This body, founded by a group of professionals working in the legal field (lawyers, barristers, university professors, magistrates, notaries, procurators and staff from the legal administration, among others) aims at safeguarding the right to use Catalan for legal purposes and in the courts. This is why it seeks to find the necessary tools so that anyone wishing to do so can effectively use Catalan, so that, thanks to this collective effort, Catalan is used in this field with absolute normality.<br>
<br>Juristes per la Llengua considers it necessary to demand measures that will remove all barriers to the use of Catalan, and to provide jurists and public administrations with the essential tools to foster the Catalan language.<br>
<br>The right to use our own language within our territory, in both public and private spheres, is a fundamental right, as set out in the principles established in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of the United Nations, and in accordance with the spirit of the European Council's Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms and the European Charter for regional and minority languages.<br>
<br>The Catalan Statute of Autonomy states that both judges and other staff working for the Legal Administrations must have an appropriate and sufficient level in both official languages, enabling them to undertake the tasks demanded for their posts.<br>
<br>The Association would like to remind citizens that they can exert the following linguistic rights in dealing with the legal authorities: <br>-Oral and written legal procedures in Catalan are valid without need of any translation.<br>
-Citizen may address courts in Catalan, both orally or in writing.<br>-Judicial staff have the obligation to attend to citizens using Catalan.<br>-Under no circumstance can a citizen be forced to change language.<br>-Citizens involved in any procedure being dealt with in Catalonia can ask for the procedure to be dealt with in Catalan.<br>
-Citizens have the right to receive documents issued by the legal administrations in Catalonia in whichever of the two official languages, without any delay due to the language.<br>-Citizens have the right to have anything they state in front of a court or tribunal recorded in the language which they have used.<br>
-Citizens have the right to deal with State constitutional and jurisdictional bodies in Catalan, and these have the obligations to attend and process their written documents.<br><br>Ever since the association was created, the wish of Juristes per la Llengua has been to disappear eventually, since this would mean that the use of Catalan has been normalized. But for this to happen, we have to continue sending complaints until social pressure is strong enough for Catalan, thanks to us all, to break out of the current stalemate<br>
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