{"id":30917,"date":"2026-09-30T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=30917"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:03:05","slug":"international-translation-day-un-highlights-role-of-language-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/09\/international-translation-day-un-highlights-role-of-language-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"International Translation Day; UN highlights role of language professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the occasion of International Translation Day, the United Nations (UN) has highlighted the vital role language professionals play in promoting cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue, education and development.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Wednesday (Sept. 30), the UN emphasized the important role of language professionals in bringing nations together, promoting understanding and cooperation, contributing to development, and strengthening world peace and security.<\/p>\n<p>The UN added that language professionals work across UN offices and regional commissions, translating and interpreting documents covering issues such as human rights, peace and security, and development.<\/p>\n<p>UN documents are issued in the Organization\u2019s six official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>The UN General Assembly declared Sept. 30 as International Translation Day on May 24, 2017, through a resolution recognizing the role of language professionals in connecting nations and fostering peace, understanding and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of International Translation Day, the United Nations (UN) has highlighted the vital role language professionals play in promoting cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue, education and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":30918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,982,7],"tags":[322,2258,2259],"class_list":["post-30917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-international","category-headline","tag-un","tag-international-translation-day","tag-language-professionals"],"views":9,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30919,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30917\/revisions\/30919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}