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

CommunityJuly 11, 2017

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.

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

ActivismMay 15, 2016

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.

#RightsCon Translation Lab Was Powered by GV and Meedan

ActivismApril 14, 2016

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.

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10th AnniversaryOctober 11, 2014

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...

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