Category: Deaf Culture
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I Sign for Human Rights!
#IWDeaf Human rights are a set of interlinked and inalienable rights inherent to every human being, whatever their nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, disability, religion, culture or language. All human beings have the right to exercise their human rights without discrimination. Human rights are civil (right to life), political (right to…
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Reflecting my journey as a deaf blogger/historian/researcher/advocator
Today our celebration of International Sign Language and NZSL (New Zealand Sign Language) week came to end tonight. Nevertheless, never end for the work must go on.Today the theme is about “I sign for Human Rights!” as I posted the blog earlier. The last few days back to Monday 21st September to today, I posted…
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Deaf Leadership
#IWDeaf The motto of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is “Nothing about us without us”. It means that any initiative undertaken in favour of deaf people must be done in closeconsultation with them through their representative organisations at every stage. Knowledge empowers deaf people and allows them to be…
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Equal Opportunities for ALL Deaf People
#IWDeaf An inclusive employment environment in sign language is the cornerstone that enables deaf people to thrive and reach their full potential in order to maximise their participation and contribution to society. This inclusion and participation in society is underpinned by government-funded qualified and accredited sign languages interpreters, as well as multilingual workplaces which use…
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The Legal Recognition of National Sign Languages
#IWDeaf Uganda was the first country in the world to legally recognise its national sign language in 1995. Since then, only approximately 50 countries have formally granted their national sign languages an equal status to their national spoken language(s). This is less than 25% of the United Nations 193 Member States. National sign language recognition…
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Weave the people together (Whiria te tangata)
Whāia te iti kahurangi ki te tūohu koe me he maunga teitei Seek the treasure you value most dearly: if you bow your head, let it be to a lofty mountain Many Māori people tell their background where they came from when visiting the Marae, during the Hui, Powhiri, meeting and .. It is called…
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Māori Interpreter for the Nga tangata Māori Turi
Ma tini ma mano ka rapa te whai. Many hands make light work. The population of Māori Deaf people is challenging to determine. Calculations of New Zealand’s signing Deaf community, which range between 4,500 and 7,700 (Dugdale, 2000; Statistics New Zealand, 2001), provide estimations of the New Zealand Deaf community as a homogenous group. It is widely speculated,…
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An Unique Marae for the Turi Māori
https://www.teaomaori.news/turi-maori-open-their-very-own-marae Ko taku reo taku ohooho, ko taku reo taku mapihi mauria “My language is my awakening, my language is the window to my soul.” Thousands of years, there were no maraes for the Turi (Deaf) Māori until recently last year. It was the special moment of their lives and wore their feelings of pride…
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Strengthen within the Tū Tangata Turi and the wider people around Aotearoa
The importance of community/people around Aotearoa. He aha te mea nui o te ao? Hthe e tangata! He tangata! He tangata! What is the most important thing in the world? It is people! It is people! It is people! This whakatauki talks to the importance of human connection and relationships. This is what creates community…
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Part Two: Endangered and Extinct Language
The deaf blogger is continuing to the endangered/extinct languages, including sign languages. “World languages are now rapidly being lost. Language is a dire situation. We wanted to know how the extinction distributed globally and what are the main drivers of this…As economies develop, one language often comes to dominate a nation’s political and educational spheres.…