Three years ago, I argued that meaningful health care access cannot be achieved unless the federal government takes action to improve services for limited-English speakers, particularly in the ...

Gerald Roche (GR): The Global Coalition for Language Rights was founded in 2020 by a group of language professionals: translators, localization specialists, and language access workers. The coalition ...

As my mandate as Commissioner of Official Languages draws to a close, there is no question that Canada is facing many challenges. Economic hardship, international turmoil and conflicts abound, and the ...

An earlier policy of improving language rights for Kurds in Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fallen by the wayside. When Turkey’s health minister, Fahrettin Koca, announced in September that ...

On Jan. 1, 2022, the world community embarks on the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, a ten-year commitment by all 193 countries of the United Nations to take action protecting the ...

Three court decisions in the last two years may represent a turning point in the history of language rights in New Brunswick, according to legal scholars and francophone activists.