Respond Blog
Respond's Work With Our Partner, Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors
Without the help of interpreters like those who stepped forward at Respond Crisis, we would not have been able to do our part of this community wide effort. Respond has truly allowed us to respond during this crisis.
Human beings don’t belong in cages
Yet Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) imprisons tens of thousands of asylum-seekers and other noncitizens every day, just because of their immigration status. These “civil detention” facilities dotted throughout the United States are notorious for their unsanitary conditions, rampant abuse, violent conduct, negligent and…
Expanding Cross-Cultural Knowledge of Long-Term COVID-19 Symptoms
Respond Crisis Translation partners with Research Aid Networks to translate shared experiences of “Long COVID” into eight widely spoken languages. At the time of writing, scientific understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has established a set of COVID-19 symptoms that are now well-known: including but not limited to …
Respond's Greek team supports legal action against dolphin and marine life abuse
Following up on the greek team’s activities - we introduce you to another new partner of ours! We are glad to announce our partnership with Sea Shepherd Greece since the beginning of May.
Working at the intersection of language and environmental justice: with Ethos & Empathy
Our greek team of translators has been pretty busy lately - and one of the partners we owe that to is Ethos & Empathy! We are very excited to announce our partnership with Ethos & Empathy since the beginning of May. We have been supporting it non-stop ever since and have learned a lot through our cooperation.
Shining a Light on Gender-Based Violence in Kyrgyzstan
Respond translators win journalism award for their work exposing femicide in Kyrgyzstan.
With help from Respond Crisis Translation’s Russian team, a report on femicide in Kyrgyzstan by Kyrgyz investigative media outlet Kloop has been shortlisted for the 2021 Sigma Awards, an international competition recognizing …
Respond's first project with Transgender Law Center
Respond’s Spanish Team recently completed an approximately 60-page translation as part of a new partnership with the Transgender Law Center, the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people.
Fighting for Language Access in our Education System: Partnership with ImmSchools
In partnership with ImmSchools, Respond Crisis Translation has worked to translate dozens of key resources for undocumented and mixed-status families navigating the educational system. In this interview, ImmSchools founders Viridiana Carrizales and Vanessa Luna discuss the critical importance of language access to their work…
Highlighting our Impact: Partnership with HIAS
HIAS has been around since 1881 as a refugee-serving organization. We protect the most vulnerable refugees, helping them build new lives and reuniting them with their families in safety and freedom. We advocate for the protection of refugees and assure that displaced people are treated with the dignity they deserve….
Highlighting our Impact: Partnership with RAICES
The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) is a nonprofit with a mission to defend the rights of immigrants and refugees, empower individuals, families, and communities, and advocate for liberty and justice.
Highlighting our Impact: Partnership with CLINIC
Estamos Unidos is a CLINIC’s asylum project based in Ciudad Juarez. It started as a response to the Migrant Protection Protocols program that puts asylum seekers at a major disadvantage by making them wait for their asylum hearings in Mexico. Our mission is to promote and protect human dignity …
Highlighting our Impact: Partnership with Al Otro Lado
Al Otro Lado is a bi-national, social justice, legal services organization. We have offices in Tijuana, San Diego, and Los Angeles. AOL works to provide services directly to asylum seekers, migrants, and deportees, as well as working on litigation efforts to push back on anti-immigrant policies and …
Highlighting our Impact: Partnership with Santuary for Families
Sanctuary for Families is dedicated to the safety, healing and self-determination of victims of domestic violence and related forms of gender violence. Through comprehensive services for our clients and their children, and through outreach, education and advocacy, we strive to create a world in which freedom from gender violence is a basic human right.
Highlighting our Impact: Partnership with Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project
At the Florence Project, we provide free legal and social services to detained men, women, and children in immigration proceedings in Arizona. I specifically work with adult men and women who are detained and seeking asylum…
Highlighting our Impact: Partnership with Southern Poverty Law Center
SIFI stands for the Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (La Iniciativa para la Liberación de los Inmigrantes en el Sureste). We are a pro bono legal services project initiated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in 2017 to serve people detained at ICE detention centers across the Deep South United States.
Respond Partners with AATI
Respond Crisis Translation is thrilled to announce a formal partnership with The Argentine Association of Translators and Interpreters: AATI. It is a non-governmental organization that has been bringing together scientific, technical and literary translators and interpreters since 1982…
Collaboration with Dartmouth College Engages Students in Critical Asylum Translation Work
During the summer of 2020, Respond Crisis Translation collaborated with Professor Pablo Dominguez and his students at Dartmouth College to complete a 125-page translation of critical evidence related to an asylum case.