Interviews - Nationalia

Interview
17.11.202209.30 h
Paulina Kamakine
Occitan poet
“I have run up and down the roads of Occitania: I am happy to see that my language is much alive”
Interview
10.06.202207.30 h
Lorna Wanósts’a7 Williams
Promoter of Indigenous linguistic revitalisation programmes
“When I heard the Catalan land acknowledgement, I was really hearing the voice of the land”
Interview
20.02.202212.30 h
Nudem Mihemed
Musician
“I feel free thanks to music and thanks to being a Kurdish woman doing what she likes”
Interview
14.10.202108.45 h
Czarina Musni
Lawyer, human rights defender
“The Philippine government harasses and threatens Indigenous communities when they fight for their rights”
Interview
17.12.202010.00 h
Laure Tindao / François Eïra Kare
Kanak activists
“Young non-Kanaks have voted ‘yes’ for independence of New Caledonia. And we can convince more of them”
Interview
18.06.202009.00 h
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
President of PEN Hong Kong
“Many are concerned that soon Hong Kong will become just another Chinese mainland city”
Interview
12.12.201910.00 h
Ardîn Dîren
Film director
“Being able to study in Kurdish schools is a basic need, just as bread is. But the Turkish government does not let us open even one”
Interview
05.06.201812.45 h
Damien Spleeters & Frank Slijper
Armament researchers at Conflict Armament Research and PAX
“War is the most corrupted business in the economy. A secretive one, where just a few players control up to 80% of the market”
Interview
30.01.201810.45 h
Sue Ballyn
Director of the Centre for Australian Studies of Barcelona
“Prospects for a collective Aboriginal voice in the Australian Parliament are continuously capped by the government”
Interview
23.11.201710.00 h
Lolita Chávez
Indigenous activist and leader of the K’iche’ Peoples’ Council
“Mayans have been self-sufficient for centuries. Why do they come to tell us how we have to live our lives?”

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In brief

12.12.2022 10.30 h
Irish receives official language status in Northern Ireland

New legislation aims to “enhance and protect” use of language by public administration
28.11.2022 14.00 h
Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez completes one year in detention

International organisations, UN experts call for immediate release
23.11.2022 11.45 h
UK Supreme Court says Scotland cannot call independence referendum unilaterally

Judges argue it is “reserved matter” of UK Parliament, further say right of self-determination does not apply
15.11.2022 11.00 h
Catalan retakes first place as mother tongue in Andorra

Spanish had held top position for a quarter of a century, according to surveys

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