As a group of professional interpreters, CIAP resolutely supports this petition to end the targeting of translators and interpreters worldwide and offer them specific protection under international law.
As a professional category, we are covered neither by the Geneva Conventions nor by a UN resolution (unlike journalists).
The petition, launched jointly by Red T, AIIC, FIT, IAPTI, CLI and WASLI, urges the UN Security Council to issue a Resolution to Protect Civilian Translators and Interpreters in Conflict Situations, which would give member states a mandate to prosecute crimes perpetrated against these neutral, multilingual communicators.
With close to 14,000 signatures as of today, there is strong support for this initiative. Please help protect our friends and colleagues, and their families, by clicking here to sign this petition.
