The linguistic emergency is not solely a Catalan concern. According to the UN, a language disappears worldwide every two weeks, and 40% of the world's population does not have access to education in their own language. In this context, an initiative is being promoted from Catalonia that aims to contribute to saving linguistic diversity and protecting linguistic rights. CIEMEN and PEN Català have relaunched a new Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights that will update the one presented to UNESCO 30 years ago. The objective is to take advantage of the window of opportunity that opens with the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2028.

"Everyone has the right to their language in their country. It's a matter of human dignity. And we all have the right to linguistic security; that is, to live in our language. If this doesn't happen, we are facing situations of cultural and linguistic domination, and therefore also personal domination," says Vicenta Tasa Fuster (Oliva, 1974) of Dr.