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Date: 23/04/2010
The World Forum for the Collective Rights of Peoples starts in Girona
Delegations from Quebec, Basque Country, Faeroe Islands, Kurdistan and other 20 different stateless peoples and nations participate in a conference on globalization and the right to self-determination · The international delegations will also attend as international observers the consultation for Catalan independence to be held in Girona on Sunday.
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Date: 20/04/2010
Candidate against reunification wins presidentials in North Cyprus
Eroglu avoids a second round winning a landslide victory in presidential elections · The incoming president announced the peace talks will go on · Several observers hold the European Union responsible for the victory of Turkish Cypriot hardliners.
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Date: 15/04/2010
Scottish Government unveils plan to promote Gaelic
NEWS IN BRIEF. The Ginealach Ùr na Gàidlig plan is intended to promote the Celtic language among new generations of speakers.
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Date: 14/04/2010
Dismantling policies against Galician language denounced in Brussels
The organization Queremos Galego met up with several UE and UNESCO bodies to condemn shifts on language policies introduced by the conservative PP · It claimed the Galician executive infringe the European Charter of Regional and Minority Languages.
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Date: 12/04/2010
Egunkaria’s editorial board acquitted of terrorism 7 years after the Basque newspaper shut down
The Spanish 'Audiencia Nacional' even questions whether the shutdown was made in accordance to Constitutional law · Most of Basque parties have called for the journalists, the editorial board and the newspaper to be compensated · Egunkaria was the only daily newspaper in Basque language · The prosecution accused the newspaper of holding close ties with ETA.
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Date: 09/04/2010
Peoples and Nations Today: Amazighs
DOSSIER. The Amazigh people stretch across a large part of North Africa, the territory they are natives to. Thus they inhabited the area long before the Arabs did. The Amazighs (also called Imazighen) are often described as a cluster of closely-related and similar sub-ethnic groups such as the Kabyles, Riffians, Tuaregs and the Siwas. The same diversity can be applied to the Amazigh languages.
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Date: 07/04/2010
Main party from South Sudan pulls out from elections in the north
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) will not run for presidential elections arguing president Omar al-Bashir supporters are going to rig the results · The Sudanese head of state has threatened to retaliate against the boycott with the invalidation of the referendum for independence in South Sudan due in 2011.
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Date: 06/04/2010
Officials from the Székely minority symbolically put Hungarian on an equal footing with Romanian and ask Bucharest to approve home-rule for the Hungarian provinces · The Ministry of Interior of Romania turns down the demands while Romanian groups call for the Hungarian parties to be banned.
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Date: 23/03/2010
New clashes between the Senegalese army and Casamance pro-independence militias
Al least 3 soldiers have died in the last days in military operations · President of Senegal Abdoulaye Wade backs dialogue with moderate rebels · Pro-independence supporters differ on the negotiator they must send to Dakar due to division · 2004 peace agreement has not put an end to conflict.
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Date: 22/03/2010
Corsican pro-sovereignty lists get best results ever
Femu a Corsica and Corsica Libera’s joint results amount to 36% in the French regional elections · Pro-autonomy list Femu a Corsica might become Paul Giacobbi’s preferential ally, whose leftist list won elections in the island · Femu a Corsica wins in Porti Vechju and comes second in Bastia and Aiacciu.
