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Respond’s language rights interventions in Futurism and PRX Radio Station
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Respond Crisis Translation’s unmasking of the dangers and ills of unsupervised reliance on AI and machine translation tools in the U.S. asylum and immigration context was featured in Futurism’s The Byte and on The World from PRX’s Things That Go Boom podcast.
Respond covered in Bloomberg, Reuters, PBS, Al Jazeera, Teen Vogue: Raising awareness about language rights in 2023
While working tirelessly around the clock to provide life-saving translation and interpretation on the front lines of crises across the globe, Respond has also driven coverage on issues of language justice throughout 2023.
Respond in Bloomberg: “The Nonprofit at the Border That Translates 170 Languages”
Bloomberg Businessweek describes how Respond has become a primary lifeline for many migrants and advocates at the U.S.-Mexico border, especially as private companies contracted by the U.S. government fail to provide adequate translators and interpreters.
The Guardian on Respond’s language rights interventions: “Lost in AI translation”
Respond Crisis Translation shared with The Guardian about how the U.S. government’s growing reliance on unsupervised machine translation to cut costs has jeopardized several asylum applications.
Respond in Teen Vogue: The US weaponizes language against asylum seekers
Respond Crisis Translation’s Valentina Callari Lewis writes that asylum seekers who speak Indigenous and marginalized languages are regularly deprived of their fundamental human right to quality translation services at the US border.
Respond Crisis Translation in the news: Language violence is threatening asylum seekers at the border
Language violence against asylum seekers on the border is increasing. All asylum seekers are now required to use the government’s new glitchy CBP One Mobile App in order to initiate the asylum process. It is only partially accessible in 5 poorly translated languages. As our Haitian Creole Team Lead recounts in the article…