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• Date: 06/11/2009

  Tamazight from Melilla will have allocation in Spain’s Budget

  

  Resources will be assigned to its promotion and dissemination, but not to language learning in schools · The budget amendment has been proposed by ERC, and has been approved with the support of IU-ICV and PSOE · Minister for Education says the money will fund training for teachers to reduce school failure.

• Date: 06/11/2009

  Alliance with independentists dismissed by Party of the Corsican Nation

  NEWS IN BRIEF. Polls predict good results for pro-autonomy PNC and a significant loss of support for pro-independence party Corsica Libera.

• Date: 04/11/2009

  Basque is swept away as medium language in schools

  

  Patxi Lopez’s government makes several changes in decrees on education · Castilian and Basque Country’s own language are made equal and the term 'Euskal Herria' will no longer have political meaning · The Basque Minister for Education backs the initiative against Basque language arguing it is a measure to stop nationalist brainwashing in schools.

• Date: 03/11/2009

  The Serbian Parliament will finally discuss on the Statute of Vojvodina

  

  Before reaching the parliament, the Serbian government will amend the bill, which was approved by the Assembly of Vojvodina last year · President of Vojvodina says 'all dilemmas and disputes have been resolved' · One of the parties in the province’s coalition government has threatened to vote against an amended Statute.

• Date: 02/11/2009

  Scottish Liberal Democrats say no to referendum

  

  It has been decided in a special close-door session several days after some party officials expressed their backing in public · Alex Salmond will find it difficult to hold the plebiscite next year due to lack of parliamentary support.

• Date: 29/10/2009

  The Parliament of the German community in Belgium postpones State reforms for 4 months

  

  The German-speaking minority of Belgium puts off debate on controversial Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde constituency until February as Flemish and Walloons fail to reach an agreement on the issue · The decision spares Belgium a new political crisis and irritates Flemish parties.

• Date: 28/10/2009

  UNICEF urges the Chilean government to protect Mapuche children

  Several Mapuche minors were injured by police raid in the Araucania region · Conflict between indigenous communities and the government continues in a region where land encroachment by Mapuches has sparked off violent clashes with police.

• Date: 27/10/2009

  Tension between the Peruvian government and indigenous communities peaks

  

  Alan Garcia’s cabinet wants to 'dissolve' AIDESEP, the organization that co-ordinates all indigenous peoples from Peru · The International Federation of Human Rights denounces the criminalization of indigenous leaders by the State after the Bagua massacre last June.

• Date: 26/10/2009

  More than 20,000 people demonstrate in Carcassonne in favour of Occitan

  

  It is considered the most attended demonstration in the history of occitanism · Cultural organizations, Occitan medium schools and political representatives took part in it · The Institute of Occitan Studies expressed concerns about unfulfilled promises as regards language recognition, in reference to the mention of 'regional languages' in the French Constitution.

• Date: 23/10/2009

  Dozens of Uighurs still disappeared after July riots in East Turkistan

  

  Human Rights Watch has criticized the Chinese government for dismissing accountability of 43 detainees arrested by police last summer · The international organization suspects the cases documented are only the top of the iceberg · 12 Uighur people have already been sentenced to death by China.