The International Mother Language Day 2011 will be celebrated on the 21 February. On 16 May 2009 the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution A/RES/61/266 called upon Member States "to promote the preservation and protection of all languages used by peoples of the world". By the same resolution, the General Assembly proclaimed 2008 as the International Year of Languages, to promote unity in diversity and international understanding, through multilingualism and multiculturalism. The International Mother Language Day was proclaimed by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO in November 1999 in the implementation decision. In this year’s message , UNESCO’s Director General says “All languages are linked through their origins and borrowing, but each is a unique source of meaning for understanding, writing and expressing reality.” Un Pulse: Permanent Link: International Mother Language Day -21 February
Current issues in language planning
The academic journal 'Current Issues in Language Planning' has been
published in print and online versions since the first issue in 2000.
This website makes available PDF-format free downloads of full-text
versions of articles from the 2000 to 2004 issues, but a subscription
(institutional or individual) is required to access issues from 2005
onwards. The journal covers many aspects of language planning and
policy related to two broad themes: polities and language planning
(dealing with specific countries or regions); and issues in language
planning (for example: information technology; language education;
colonialism; minority language rights; literacy; language maintenance;
national security and geopolitics; and terminology). From: Intute.ac.uk
http://www.multilingual-matters.net/cilp/default.htm