Catalan Assembly

21/12/2025

⬛️⬜️🌎2025 has been a busy year for Assemblea Nacional Catalana’s international office.

Here are some key achievements👇

19/12/2025

⬛️⬜️ “Every day that Catalonia is not independent, we lose rights and wellbeing.”

Our will to exist is a path of no return, and in 2026 we will remain steadfast in the struggle for independence.

01/12/2025

⬛️⬜️ 📢 At the UN Forum on Minority Issues, Assemblea denounced Spain’s ongoing repression of Catalonia’s democratic rights.

Our representative Ariadna Heinz highlighted:

✅ Denial of Catalonia’s right to self-determination
✅ Criminalisation of peaceful political expression
✅ Structural discrimination & hate speech against Catalans
✅ Limits on the Catalan language in education, justice & public administration
✅ The need for a binding international treaty on minority rights

Assemblea urged UN Member States to protect democratic participation, end repression, and uphold Catalonia’s collective rights, language, and culture.

Read the full press release here:
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The Catalan National Assembly participated in the 18th Session of the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues held on 28–29 November 2025 in Geneva, contributing to two key panels on …

14/11/2025

⬛️⬜️ "We've only voted and demonstrated. The tag 'normalization' is negative because it denies our political conflict and makes it seem as if we've had a violent conflict" - Elisenda Paluzie speaking at Assemblea Nacional Catalana's symposium on why normalization doesn't make sense in the Catalan case.

12/11/2025

⬛️⬜️Professor Timothy Waters acknowledges that, even though we live in an interdependent world and nobody actually governs themselves, "it is valuable to have those tools of statehood sovereignty to negotiate in that world" in order to govern whatever you can.

11/11/2025

⬛️⬜️🗣“The democratic crisis is colossal, and it demands revolutionary change. The Catalan democratic revolution is exactly that: it is transversal, interclassist and goes to the radical foundation of democracy.”

As explained by Vicent Partal at the International Symposium.

10/11/2025

⬛️⬜️Statehood is the right to have rights. We want 's independence because, as Neus Torbisco remarked at Assemblea Nacional Catalana's symposium, it is the only way to ensure full protection of our individual and collective human rights.

We must—and we will—keep fighting for our rights.

05/11/2025

⬛️⬜️Assemblea's symposium last week, with Catalan and international academics and experts, created a space for debate and reflection on how the pro-independence movement should adapt in order to navigate the complex new global order.

The current context poses serious challenges for stateless peoples and nations, but the social justice goals of working towards full sovereignty can represent a hopeful alternative to the current resurgence of authoritarianism, weakening of multilateral institutions and erosion of human rights.

Catalonia's pursuit of self-determination is not only a national struggle but fits within a universal question for freedom, identity, and political legitimacy.

04/11/2025

⬛️⬜️ On Friday, Assemblea Nacional Catalana brought together experts and scholars in the international symposium ‘The Catalan Independence Movement in the New Global Context’.

The full-day event served to examine the future of stateless nations and the meaning of democracy in an increasingly authoritarian world.

Catalonia’s democratic struggle for self-determination remains both a national struggle and a universal question about freedom, identity, and political legitimacy.

29/10/2025

⬛️⬜️ “What happens in Catalonia will set a precedent,” warned Julian Assange in 2017.

Independence, self-determination, stateless nations, human rights, and the new global context. Let’s talk about it.

Come to Assemblea Nacional Catalana's International Symposium:

📍Ateneu Barcelonès
🗓Oct 31
🕒Doors open 9:30 | Start 10:00
🎟Free entry

17/10/2025

⬛️⬜️On October 31st, Assemblea Nacional Catalana is organizing an international symposium on the Catalan pro-independence movement within today’s current global context.

💬The event will bring together Catalan and international experts in international law, conflict resolution, global economics and international relations.

🌎They will explore the challenges and opportunities that the emerging global order presents for stateless nations seeking to exercise their right to self-determination.

📍Ateneu Barcelonès
🗓31 October
🕚 10am - 5:30pm.
Admission is free and open to all, subject to venue capacity.

10/10/2025

⬛️⬜️Assemblea Nacional Catalana has taken part in the 2025 Warsaw Human Dimension Conference.

Board member Ariadna Heinz intervened in two sessions on the Rule of Law, denouncing Spain’s ongoing violations of civil and political rights, the lack of judicial independence, and the political persecution of Catalan leaders and activists.

Assemblea urged the OSCE to call on Spain to:
✅ Ensure equal application of the Amnesty Law
✅ Investigate police brutality
✅ Stop misusing anti-terror laws against dissent
✅ Implement international human rights rulings

Assemblea's participation in the reaffirms its commitment to internationalise Catalonia’s struggle for democracy and self-determination, denouncing Spain’s human rights violations before major international institutions.

The Catalan National Assembly has once again brought the Catalan people’s struggle for democracy and self-determination to the international stage, taking part in the 2025 OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference. …