Bilingual Signage in Saterland: German Dominance and Sater-Frisian Heritage
Abstract This paper investigates the linguistic landscape of Saterland, a municipality in northwestern Germany with a population of 14,313, spread out across four villages. Saterland is home to the Sater-Frisian…
Interview on activities in Geneva
Below is an interview with Geneva Times from 13 July 2024: Geneva Times: Can you tell us about yourself? Sure, my name is Jeroen Zandberg and I am from the…
Celebrating 53 years Proclamation of the Republic of West Papua
The following text is a translation of my speech held at an event in The Hague, the Netherlands, celebrating the proclamation of the Republic of West Papua on 1 July…
West Papua Participates in the 2024 CONIFA Annual General Meeting
In the heart of Budapest, Hungary, on the 17th and 18th of February 2024, the international football landscape witnessed the vibrant convergence of diverse football associations at the Annual General…
Commemorating 40 years West Papua Refugees
On 10 February 2024, a conference highlighting the West Papua Refugee experience took place in The Hague. The text below is the English translation of my speech: Good day, I…
Albanian advocacy for Chameria in Europe
A book about the Chameria advocacy campaign, which aimed to get the Cham issue on the international political agenda, mobilize the people and get historical justice for the Cham community.…
Linguistic exclusion of the Frisians – Statement to the United Nations Forum on Minority issues
On 30 November – 1 December 2023, the Forum on Minority Issues convened at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The theme for the 16th session was: ‘Minorities and cohesive…
Governance in Frisian – Speech at the United Nations Social Forum
I wish to highlight a challenge for democracy and human rights where it concerns the access to government services. Many government services are currently digitally available. However, it comes with…
E-governance in Frisian
On 4 September 2023, the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner organized a panel discussion on the most efficient ways of upholding good governance to address the…
The lack of support for the Frisian language in Germany
On Monday 17 July 2023, in Geneva, Switzerland, at the 16th session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) under item 7 international decade of indigenous…