On 8th February, the Security Program Against Machist Violence of the Generalitat informed that thanks to the catalan police last year 104 girls were prevented from genital mutilations. This is attributed to the preventive work that the Catalan police carried out last year with 55 families.
With the Support of the Catalan Agency for cooperation and development, the International Center Escarré for Ethnic Minorities and Nations, CIEMEN, is organizing a space devoted to the theme of ‘collective rights of stateless peoples' at the WSF-2009, which starts on 26 January.
The magazine RELS dedicates its last monographic to the essayist and Welsh translator (1917-1995), that normalized herself Catalan, and that was a bridge between both cultures. It has also spoken us about Simone Weil, the centenary of her is commemorated in 2009.
The Catalan is a living, rich language, and spoken nowadays by approximately 9 million persons in 4 countries, basically in Catalunya, Baleares Islands (Mallorca and the others), and Valencia, where it is a official language; in Andorra, where it is "the" official language, in the East zone of the south of France, where it survives with some difficulties, and other, more small, territories (Murcia -Spain-, and Sardegna -Italy-).
