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Scots Translation of UDHR Accepted by UN

Categorised in: Promotion Activism Politics
60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Scots translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) has been accepted by the United Nations and will be added to its list of more than 300 languages in which the document is available.

This is a result of Amnesty International’s publication of a poster of the UDHR in Scots to celebrate the Declaration’s 60th anniversary.

Colin Donati, who translated the Declaration, said: “The UDHR is the most translated document in the world, so it is great to see Scots taking its place among the other languages of the world on the UN website.”

Amnesty’s UDHR Scots poster (PDF): http://tinyurl.com/5f2ao7
MP3 sound file of the UDHR in Scots: http://tinyurl.com/637pmx
List of UDHR translations: http://tinyurl.com/26vqml