WSIS and NGOs – Indispensable Cooperation
The World Summit on the Information Society Forum was held in Geneva from 30 May to 3 June this year, and Humphrey Tonkin, representing the World Esperanto Association at the UN in his role as vice-president of the NGO Committee on Language and Languages, was invited...
Why celebrate language days?
Why does the Esperanto movement celebrate the special days of the six official languages of the United Nations? These languages have grown strong not via their cultural achievements – though their achievements are enormous – but through their military and economic...
Remarks at Cambridge University Honorary Degree Ceremony
On 3 November, António Guterres, the United Nations Secretary-General, visited the University of Cambridge to receive an honorary doctorate. His words deserve particular mention and attention. Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, academics, students, civic leaders, ladies and...
ESF – mid-year
In 2020 the work of the Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) focused more particularly on international language issues, and especially the promotion of equality among languages, international communication on the basis of linguistic equality, and linguistic justice....
The politics of language: the case of Hyderabad, “Decolonial Subversions”, and Esperanto in an Indian University
Monika begins. Thinking of linguistic justice and decolonisation brings me back to one humid summer afternoon – it must have been around 2010-11 – when, sitting in the living room of an apartment-block in the South Indian city of Hyderabad, I was engrossed in my first...
Do we care about linguistic justice? Then we should measure it!
Imagine being involved in a court case that takes place in a language you have trouble following or expressing yourself in. Imagine finding yourself on a hospital ward where no one understands anything you say. Imagine living in a country for all of your life and...
A turn for the better…
There’s a lot about language that we don’t understand – or willfully ignore. For example, there’s much controversy about where language came from, who invented it, and why. Did we create language because we had the organs of speech and the desire to speak, or did we...IfI: Information for Interlinguists
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