By Jørgen Christian Wind Nielsen, (FIT, chair of the External Partnerships Standing Committee and Council member) The theme for the International Translation Day (ITD) 2026 webinar is ‘Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights’, and will focus on translation, interpreting and terminology at the heart of linguistic inclusion, with the subtitle ‘the power of being understood’.
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By Defeng LI (FIT Asia, University of Macau) and Junhuan Liu (TAC) The Asian Regional Centre of the International Federation of Translators (FIT Asia) launched its Global Online Lecture Series on 9 December 2025, with the first session delivered by Mr Gao Anming, Executive Vice President and Secretary General of the Translators Association of China (TAC),
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‘Show me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are!’ Being in this world means being in a context. This also applies to legal bodies such as FIT. Luckily, FIT has a lot of friends, some with formalised documents or memorandums of understanding (MOUs), and others with less formal arrangements. Overall
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FIT Council for the 2025–2028 mandate. In the first row, FIT Honorary Advisors Andy Evans, Liese Katschinka, Reina de Bettendorf, and Henry Liu In Geneva this past September, the FIT Statutory Congress placed its trust in a new FIT Council for the 2025–2028 mandate. FIT Council 2025–2028 Guillaume Deneufbourg, CBTI (Belgium) Laurinda Cecilia Van Tonder,
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The Union of Translators and Interpreters of the Czech Republic (JTP) alerted FIT to the Czech government’s proposal to replace human interpreters with unsupervised AI machine interpreting in immigration and legal settings. Concerned that this could set a precedent for other governments to prioritise perceived cost savings over best practices and service quality, the FIT
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FIT Council is pleased to share this year’s theme for International Translation Day (ITD): Translation, an art worth protecting. Inspired by issues surrounding copyright, this year’s theme embraces the recognition of translations as original creative works in their own right, owed the benefit of copyright protection under the Berne Convention. As the creators of derivative
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As we say goodbye to 2023, which has arguably been a challenging year for many, FIT is also saying goodbye to our treasurer, Ted Wozniak, and Council member, Katia Jimenez, due to personal reasons. Council will co-opt replacements at our next meeting. We are grateful to Ted for the enormous amount of work he has
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