When thinking of the right to due process, we think of the right to a fair trial, with an impartial judge, in some countries we think of a jury of our peers, the right to legal representation, and other similar requirements. However, we rarely think of our lawyer actually having the right [...]

You may be wondering what Argentina’s 200th birthday has to do with laws and languages, honestly, when I set out to write this post I was wondering the same thing. Since I live in Argentina, I wanted to honor my country of residence with a little something on its big day and, as it turned [...]

Growing up in California I can only think of one time when a “state of emergency” was declared: the Los Angeles Riots of 1992, and let me tell you, it was scary! Of course at the time I was only 13 years old and hearing words like “state of emergency” and “curfew” [...]

Yesterday, the US Supreme Court rejected a ban on videos of animal cruelty. The question at hand was whether or not to strike down a federal law that made it a crime to create or sell dogfight videos and other depictions of animal cruelty. The case related to the prosecution of Robert J. Stevens, a [...]

Malaysia’s Constitution establishes that the religion of a child under the age of 18 should be decided by “the parent or guardian.” Some lawyers in Malaysia argue that this should be interpreted to mean both parents, but Malaysian courts disagree, at least when it comes to converting children to Islam. When parents convert their children [...]

Censorship is a topic that just keeps coming up in this blog because too many governments are willing to pass laws that limit people’s freedom of speech. Sometimes, their only goal is to block a certain message out, to keep people in the dark about “inconvenient” views on key issues. At other times, these restrictions [...]

Cultural awareness is a quality all good translators have. Anyone who has ever been submerged in two or more completely different languages understands that there is more to language than just words: There is culture, history, legacy, tradition, and other subtleties that make up both the textual and sub or paratextual [...]

According to the ABC News, Pakistan is a 95% Muslim country, which might explain why there is currently a law there that was introduced by Pakistan’s former military ruler General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq in the 1980s, which carries the death penalty for insulting Islam or its prophet. The current government is pushing to change the law, [...]

Last week, the BBC published an article saying:
MPs have backed a government move to allow sex education to be taught in England in a way that “reflects” a school’s “religious character”.

What they are talking about is an amendment to England’s current Children, Schools and Families Bill, passed by a majority of 345

The original post was written by Kevin Matthews and can be found on the link provided below:

The National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA hosts a major, first-of-its-kind conference on how to teach languages that are sidelined and stigmatized around the world [...]