Shouting against the silencing. A brief introduction to the minority struggles from the Basque Country.

Autores

  • Ihintza Palacín M.A. candidate for the International Master in Sociology of Law at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati (Spain).
  • Ainhoa Martinez Present: M.A. candidate for the International Master in Sociology of Law at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati (Spain). Previous: LLB in Public Law at University of Deusto (2014, Spain). Specialization in Human Rights Law at China University of Political Science and Law (2012, China) Courses: Protecting Human Subject Research Participants. National Institutes of Health Office of Extramural Research and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2014 Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries – University of Manchester. 2014. Environmental Law and Policy – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2014. Human rights law: Affective-sexual, mechanisms for international protection or protection responses range from the International Law. Universit of the Basque Country. 2014. International Law and International Relations. University of the Basque Country. 2013. Learning the English used in International contracts through the real contracts. University of Deusto. 2013. General problems of Transnational Law and its implications for the Companies in International Trade. University of Deusto. 2010. English for import and export through the real documents. University of Deusto. 2010. How to write and understand legal communications. University of Deusto. 2008.
  • Lorena Ortuoste M.A. candidate for the International Master in Sociology of Law at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati (Spain).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/2318-8081.15.5

Palavras-chave:

Basque country, Spain, France, Minority, Human rights

Resumo

Our research area consists in the struggles suffered by the Basque minority, which were and are caused by the Spanish and French states. We claim that from the point of view of post-national human rights law, the threats experienced throughout history were aimed to destroy one of the main characteristics of the Basques as a minority, the Euskara (the Basque language). Besides, we perceive a change in the roles of the Spanish and French state. That is to say, in the past all the struggles that Basques suffered were caused by Franco’s dictatorship, whereas nowadays Basque Country and Basque language enjoy a constitutional protection in Spain. While in France nowadays this constitutional protection is weak. Further,  we argue that these conflicts related to language and minority rights that the Basques had been (and are) suffering, imply the failure to translate human rights into practice. So that there is a gap between the post-national human rights scope of protection and human rights principles in action.

Biografia do Autor

Ihintza Palacín, M.A. candidate for the International Master in Sociology of Law at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati (Spain).

Licence in Law (University of UPPA, Bayonne, France).

My thesis for the M.A. in Sociology of Law consists of a comparative study of the French and Spanish regulations towards the minority rights through the case study of the Basque schooling phenomena. Indeed, a transborder European Cooperative works in both sides of the border of the Basque Country (Spain and France) in order to provide an education in Basque language. This social movement, who became an European Cooperative in 2009, has different outcomes in the Northern and Southern Basque Country. I am going to conduct my research through the glasses of Human Rights and Constitutions.

Ainhoa Martinez, Present: M.A. candidate for the International Master in Sociology of Law at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati (Spain). Previous: LLB in Public Law at University of Deusto (2014, Spain). Specialization in Human Rights Law at China University of Political Science and Law (2012, China) Courses: Protecting Human Subject Research Participants. National Institutes of Health Office of Extramural Research and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2014 Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries – University of Manchester. 2014. Environmental Law and Policy – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2014. Human rights law: Affective-sexual, mechanisms for international protection or protection responses range from the International Law. Universit of the Basque Country. 2014. International Law and International Relations. University of the Basque Country. 2013. Learning the English used in International contracts through the real contracts. University of Deusto. 2013. General problems of Transnational Law and its implications for the Companies in International Trade. University of Deusto. 2010. English for import and export through the real documents. University of Deusto. 2010. How to write and understand legal communications. University of Deusto. 2008.

Peacebuilder Fellow on Water Conflicts in Mexico, at Center for Conflict Studies at Monterey Institute of International Studies (a graduate school of Middlebury College, California USA). 2014 Member of the institutional relations board at Amnesty International Euskadi (Basque Country, Spanish section). In charge of housing, gender, liberty of expression and demonstration. 2014-present. Resource person for M A N A B, An Independent and Non Profit Human Rights organization, India. 2013-present. Member of the main coordination board at Amnesty International Euskadi (Basque Country, Spanish section). 2013-2014. Coordinator of the local activist group of Amnesty International Vitoria-Gasteiz, at Amnesty International Euskadi (Basque Country, Spanish section). 2013-2014. Vice-coordinator of intitutional relations team at Amnesty International Euskadi (Basque Country, Spanish section). 2013. Member of the local institutional relations team, communication and media at Amnesty International Vitoria-Gasteiz. Amnesty International Euskadi (Basque Country, Spanish section). 2011-2013

Lorena Ortuoste, M.A. candidate for the International Master in Sociology of Law at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati (Spain).

Direction Secretary (University of Deusto, Spain).

Philosophy (U.N.E.D. University, Spain).

My thesis for the M.A. in Sociology of Law consists of an analysis about how the Basque society and struggles are reflected in the Basque literature (written in Basque language).

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2015-11-24

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