With the inclusion of Catalan on its website, Bolt becomes the first company in the VFH sector to take the language into account both in its app and on its website
The organisation congratulates Bolt for its willingness to include Catalan everywhere and it is now urging Uber, Cabify, Moovit and FreeNow to follow in its footsteps, given that they can't claim to offer a good service without Catalan
Maria de Lluc Muñoz, international officer at Plataforma per la Llengua, analysed the relationship between Futbol Club Barcelona and the Catalan language in a round table with representatives from Wales and North Frisia
The organisation for the protection of Catalan supports the value of involving football clubs in promoting the language, and has worked to achieve Barça's backing for the official status of Catalan in the EU and to increase the use of Catalan at the club's youth development centre La Masia, in a training programme for staff
We have persuaded the Meta group to start translating its instant messaging tool into Catalan and now we are calling on the company to extend this to Instagram and Threads
Plataforma per la Llengua asks the United Nations to intervene so that governments and technology platforms protect linguistic diversity and punish hate speech
The organisation recalls that the wave of internet hate suffered by footballer Aitana Bonmatí is not an isolated case, and deplores the fact that Spanish nationalist discourse often includes hate speech against Catalan and Catalan-speakers
The resolution, presented by Plataforma per la Llengua, has been approved at the General Assembly of the European Language Equality Network (ELEN), which took place last weekend in Bilbao
Plataforma per la Llengua has submitted a petition to the Strasbourg Court after exhausting all legal avenues in Spain to appeal against the exclusion of organisations protecting Catalan from the judicial process that ended with a decision to impose 25% teaching in Spanish.
The High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) refused to allow organisations protecting Catalan to take appear in the case, claiming that it was concerned with the use of Spanish as a teaching language, and nothing to do with Catalan. For this same reason, it allowed Asamblea por una Escuela Bilingüe and Hablamos Español to take part
Plataforma per la Llengua maintains that Spain has breached three articles of the European Convention on Human Rights: one that prohibits discrimination, another establishing the right to a fair trial and a third guaranteeing effective remedy
Plataforma per la Llengua has presented a report listing the violations of linguistic rights in Spain and noting the country's failure to comply with other States' recommendations
The organisation makes seven recommendations for other States to pass on to Spain, including adding Catalan speakers as a protected group in the signing of the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, punishing language discrimination, and allowing children to be taught entirely in Catalan in schools
Plataforma per la Llengua celebrates the content of the committee's report, based on which the Council of Europe's Council of Ministers will issue its final recommendations to Spain
The experts' report lists reverses for Catalan throughout the areas in Spain where it is spoken in key areas such as education, justice, administration and the media
The assembly of delegates of the European network FUEN agrees to ask member States to vote in favour of Catalan being given official status in the European Union and to demand that the Spanish and European institutions ensure that language immersion is maintained in Catalan schools
Maria de Lluc Muñoz, head of the Plataforma per la Llengua's International section, attends the 68th Congress of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), one of the main organisations protecting national and language minorities
The president of the organisation, Òscar Escuder, highlights the recent negotiations the Spanish president has been able to unblock and calls for the same effort for official status for Catalan