Dears, thank you to the organisers to let us to have the opportunity to quickly explain our actions against hate
speech.
Plataforma per la Llengua is the NGO working for the promotion of Catalan language and the defence of the
linguistic rights of Catalan-speakers, from all the areas where Catalan is spoken. Plataforma has more than 20.000
members.
During the last years, we have done a serial of proposal to Spanish, Catalan, Balearic, Valencian and Aragon
Governments in order to stop the linguistic discriminations that Catalan speakers are enduring in all those territories
and, also online. Part of those actions have been included in the Catalan Human Rights Plan, promoted by Catalan
Ombudsman.
Moreover, Plataforma has a grievance service to accompany people who face or endure any kind of linguistic
discrimination, giving them administrative and legal assistance. Part of the technical staff of Plataforma is in fact in
charge to detect hate speech on social networks and to give them administrative and legal assistance.
The objective: that everyone discriminated on social networks because expressing himself or herself in Catalan feels
accompanied and knows that he/she is not alone.
We have detected that often before we contact those people, someone has already informed them to contact us.
Since 2011 we have received 5,963 grievances.
Finally, like other human rights NGOs, we are part of the Barcelona Board of Organisations for the Assistance of
Victims of Discrimination promoted by the City Council to fight against any kind of hate speech. All the NGOs implied
in this network give support to each other in their respective fields of action. The Board has given support to 546
cases in 2018.
Thank you for your attention and I remain at your disposal if you have any question.