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The urgent need for language access in Immigration Detention
The urgent need for language access in Immigration Detention
Respond's Arabic team featured in THE LINGUIST
Respond's Arabic team featured in THE LINGUIST
Rudaw features Repond’s project on anti-Kurdish language violence after 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake
Rudaw features Repond’s project on anti-Kurdish language violence after 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake
Respond on NPR’s KJZZ: Biden’s “impossible” rule that asylum seekers bring their own interpreters
Respond on NPR’s KJZZ: Biden’s “impossible” rule that asylum seekers bring their own interpreters
Respond’s language rights interventions in Futurism and PRX Radio Station
Respond’s language rights interventions in Futurism and PRX Radio Station
Respond covered in Bloomberg, Reuters, PBS, Al Jazeera, Teen Vogue: Raising awareness about language rights in 2023
Respond covered in Bloomberg, Reuters, PBS, Al Jazeera, Teen Vogue: Raising awareness about language rights in 2023
Respond in Bloomberg: “The Nonprofit at the Border That Translates 170 Languages”
Respond in Bloomberg: “The Nonprofit at the Border That Translates 170 Languages”
Respond in Al Jazeera: Intervention leads BBC News to correct egregious mistranslation
Respond in Al Jazeera: Intervention leads BBC News to correct egregious mistranslation
Respond in Reuters’ Context: “AI's 'insane' translation mistakes endanger US asylum cases”
Respond in Reuters’ Context: “AI's 'insane' translation mistakes endanger US asylum cases”
The Guardian on Respond’s language rights interventions: “Lost in AI translation”
The Guardian on Respond’s language rights interventions: “Lost in AI translation”
Respond in Teen Vogue: The US weaponizes language against asylum seekers
Respond in Teen Vogue: The US weaponizes language against asylum seekers
Respond Crisis Translation in the news: Language violence is threatening asylum seekers at the border
Respond Crisis Translation in the news: Language violence is threatening asylum seekers at the border
Respond Crisis Translation on PBS NewsHour: Machine translation is endangering asylum claims
Respond Crisis Translation on PBS NewsHour: Machine translation is endangering asylum claims
AI Machine Translation Jeopardizing Afghan Asylum Claims
AI Machine Translation Jeopardizing Afghan Asylum Claims
“Haiti Then and Now's" Interview With Laura Wagner - Respond's Haitian Creole Team Co Lead
“Haiti Then and Now's" Interview With Laura Wagner - Respond's Haitian Creole Team Co Lead
The Languages of War
The Languages of War
He Was Critically ill in ICE Detention. A Translator May Have Saved His Life.
He Was Critically ill in ICE Detention. A Translator May Have Saved His Life.
Respond Crisis Translation covered in Stanford Social Innovation Review
Respond Crisis Translation covered in Stanford Social Innovation Review
Respond volunteer writes in the New York Times about her critical work
Respond volunteer writes in the New York Times about her critical work

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View fullsize Immigration detention is a staggering modern phenomenon, with the United States detaining more noncitizens in connection with civil removal cases than any other country in the world. In 2023, ICE detained a daily average of nearly 30,000 people from
View fullsize Language justice is also about institutions of repute using language as a vehicle of TRUTH to educate people about issues so they can be informed citizens of a democracy. Media that scrubs language to obscure the truth from citizens so that they are
View fullsize The Alsharif family is in northern Gaza. They have been displaced more than nine times, and each time they face bombings and danger. The occupation has blocked the entry of any goods into northern Gaza and Ms Ena and her family are facing the threa
View fullsize Misinformation is a concern during any war, but in Gaza there are particular difficulties in getting accurate information out. We are used to seeing international press reporting from war zones, but this has not been possible in Gaza as routes in an
View fullsize While living through genocide and war for the last 10 months, Nada has been working as an Arabic<>English translator with Respond Crisis Translation - making it possible for thousands of Gazans to file their asylum and humanitarian parole appli
View fullsize Ahmed is one of our linguists in Gaza doing life saving translation work for hundreds of Palestinians seeking asylum. After being displaced five times in 10 months, he lives in Maghazi Camp in Gaza. Before October, he studied multimedia and played
View fullsize Hundreds of you responded to our call to support our Gazan linguists who are doing life saving translation work for thousands of Palestinians fleeing genocide. Because of you, we have been able to provide emergency stipends to ensure our Gazan trans
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View fullsize Join us in supporting our team of Gazan translators and the thousands of Gazans they are supporting by providing life saving translation work. We will hear from powerful speakers, including a Gazan family whom we’ve supported in accessing asy
View fullsize Join us in supporting our team of Gazan translators and the thousands of Gazans they are supporting by providing life saving translation work. WHEN: Friday, August 30 @ 5:30pm WHERE: Berkeley, CA [address provided upon RSVP] *Drinks and food provid
View fullsize We have 12 Gazan translators on our team who have lost their homes and their loved ones — They have been forcibly displaced 5-10 times each; they are without electricity and reliable internet connection; they are living in tents and building f
View fullsize The U.S. has a long and brutal history of deporting and detaining Venezuelan asylum seekers in mass. It is an important moment to raise awareness about the abusive conditions and asylum policies Venezuelans are subjected to in the U.S. and other co

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