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July 11, 2017

Translators: Would you like to support a new human rights project?

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), a start-up global social enterprise aiming to reinvent the way human rights data are produced and used, is seeking translators.

May 15, 2016

Here’s what we learned about global conferences and social media

Written by An Xiao Mina · Activism

In #RightsCon Conference, we translated 444 Tweets — 172 to Arabic, 259 to Spanish. That’s 148 Tweets/day, or roughly 19 Tweets/hour. Here’s what we learned about global conferences.

April 14, 2016

#RightsCon Translation Lab Was Powered by GV and Meedan

Written by Rami Alhames · Activism

GV Lingua and Meedan have collaborated to translate RightsCon conference tweets to Spanish and Arabic via its Bridge Translation tool. More projects to come, here is what we have done.

October 11, 2014

#GVfamily

Written by Marianna Breytman · 10th Anniversary

That first translation has opened so many doors for me, including everything from expanding my professional network to making new friends all over the world who are always there to...