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Category: Deaf Sign Language

International Week of Deaf People 2025
Deaf Culture / Deaf Sign Language
  • August 15, 2025
  • 6 mins
  • 11 months
  • 820 words
  • 3

International Week of Deaf People 2025

Theme for 2025: No Human Rights Without Sign Language Rights 22 to 28 September 2025 Each year, Deaf communities around the world […]

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Deaf History / Deaf Sign Language
  • July 28, 2025
  • 5 mins
  • 11 months
  • 727 words
  • 1

It is crucial that we urgently recognise sign language as a global language.

The blogger/historian/researcher would like to thank her mother for sending the article “A visit to Gibbet Hill led to a story” and […]

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Deaf Culture / Deaf Sign Language
  • September 27, 2020
  • 3 mins
  • 6 years
  • 393 words

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, […]

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Deaf Culture / Deaf Sign Language
  • September 27, 2020
  • 10 mins
  • 6 years
  • 1,430 word
  • 8

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 […]

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Deaf Culture / Deaf Sign Language
  • September 26, 2020
  • 3 mins
  • 6 years
  • 314 words

Deaf Leadership

#IWDeaf The motto of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is “Nothing about us without us”. It […]

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Deaf Culture / Deaf Sign Language
  • September 25, 2020
  • 2 mins
  • 6 years
  • 286 words

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 […]

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Deaf Culture / Deaf Sign Language
  • September 24, 2020
  • 3 mins
  • 6 years
  • 306 words

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 […]

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Deaf Education / Deaf Sign Language
  • February 3, 2020
  • 5 mins
  • 6 years
  • 704 words
  • 2

Sign languages vs lip reading

Is sign language better than lip reading? This poem is from a Deaf child via Facebook. Movie on 2-02-20 at 5.08 PM  […]

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Deaf Sign Language
  • September 29, 2019
  • 6 mins
  • 7 years
  • 881 words
  • 5

Day Seven – Sign Language Rights for All Deaf Refugees

D/deaf refugees constitute one of the most vulnerable groups among the Deaf Community. In addition to fleeing from life-threating situations, D/deaf refugees […]

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Deaf Sign Language
  • September 28, 2019
  • 2 mins
  • 7 years
  • 211 words
  • 1

Day Six – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer and questioning and asexual

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer and questioning and asexual people, among others, live in various communities around the world. Members of […]

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