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Greetings on International Mother Language Day
Today is International Mother Language Day, proclaimed by UNESCO to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. I was made aware of this by the United Nations Online Volunteering program (UNV), that I have posted about before.
Access to legal translation and interpreting
Fair Trials International and five other NGOs (Amnesty International, the Open Society Justice Initiative, JUSTICE, the European Criminal Bar Association and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties) have criticised the UK and Irish Governments for their stance on a new law on access to legal advice.
Read the Fair Trials article here.
Read the European Directive of 20 October 2010 on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings by clicking here.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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