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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…

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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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….

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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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.

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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…

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