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Multilingualism and Translation: United Nations Human Rights Bodies

PublisherOxford University Press
First online date2026-04-21
Abstract

This entry focuses on the textual production and translation practices of the United Nations in ensuring multilingual communication of its human rights bodies, including the United Nations Commission on Human Rights/United Nations Human Rights Council and its subsidiary bodies and procedures and the UN’s human rights treaty bodies. The overview is completed with a brief comparative analysis of translation practices at human rights courts at the regional level, including the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The data presented is based in the LINST corpus datasets and the United Nations’ Official Document System.

Keywords
  • United Nations
  • European Court of Human Rights
  • Inter-American Court of Human RIghts
  • African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
  • Translation practices
  • Multilingual communication
  • Multilingual practice and procedure
Citation (ISO format)
PRIETO RAMOS, Fernando, GUZMAN, Diego. Multilingualism and Translation: United Nations Human Rights Bodies. In: Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Law. A. Peters (Ed.). [s.l.] : Oxford University Press, 2026.
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