Language Policy and Planning, and Language Revitalization around the World

09/16/2026

AIPP Annual Report 2025 — Being Indigenous in Asia: Our Strategic Plan in Action

At the 9th General Assembly in June 2025, member organizations adopted a new Strategic Plan that puts Indigenous self-governance at the center of AIPP's work for the first time. This report covers the first year of putting it into practice.

AIPP and its members ran 25 projects in 14 countries. There were 39,072 instances of participation by Indigenous Peoples in AIPP activities, 58 percent of them Indigenous Women and 16 percent Indigenous Youth. AIPP distributed 29 grants, issued 48 political statements, published 19 knowledge products and joined 39 regional and international policy processes.

Thailand passed its first law acknowledging that Indigenous Peoples exist, after years of advocacy by NIPT and IMPECT with AIPP's support. The Network of Indigenous Women in Asia (NIWA) held its founding General Assembly, with leaders from 12 countries. Centers of Defenders (CoD) in Bangladesh and Nepal documented 94 human rights violations. In India, 28 Indigenous villages secured community forestland titles. A pilot Strategic Regranting Programme sent funds straight to Indigenous Communities under threat.

AIPP also convened the first Indigenous Peoples high-level dialogue at UNEP during UNEA-7, and at Mercury COP6 helped end the practice of lumping Indigenous Peoples in with local communities.

The report includes AIPP's audited financial statements for the 2025 fiscal year.

Read the full Annual Report: https://aippnet.org/2026/08/16/aipp-annual-report-2025-being-indigenous-in-asia-our-strategic-plan-in-action/



Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Defenders-IPHRDs Network, Asia Asia Indigenous Youth Platform - AIYP Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples of Asia-IKPA Network Of Indigenous Women In Asia - NIWA

09/02/2026

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
2026 CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL INDIGENOUS STUDIES

November 13–15, 2026 | Virtual

The 2026 Conference on Global Indigenous Studies is seeking volunteers to help support this international virtual conference bringing together scholars, students, artists, community members, and leaders for conversations on issues from around the world.

Volunteers will play an important role in helping conference sessions run smoothly. Opportunities may include:

Moderating virtual panels and presentations
Welcoming speakers and attendees
Introducing panelists using provided information
Monitoring the Zoom chat and helping facilitate audience questions
Keeping sessions on schedule and providing time reminders
Assisting with basic virtual conference logistics
Supporting conference organizers and presenters as needed.

This is a great opportunity for students interested in Indigenous studies, global and international studies, languages and cultures, community engagement, or event planning to meet scholars and participants from around the world while gaining experience supporting an international academic conference.

Students may volunteer for one or multiple conference sessions based on their availability.

Some Benefits of Serving as Volunteers for this Global Conference:

Deepening global understanding of Indigenous Studies.
Enhancing linguistic knowledge
Understanding issues from a global perspectives
Gain skills in event management, communication
Expand your professional and personal network

Interested in volunteering?
Email: Mengjie Lei at [email protected]

08/23/2026

GITE Launches Its New Website: A New Digital Home for Transformative Education
https://www.gite14.org/

Founded in 2014, the Global Institute for Transformative Education (GITE), Inc. is beginning an exciting new chapter with the launch of our new website!

For more than a decade, GITE has been committed to advancing transformative education through research, teaching, professional development, advocacy, and global collaboration.

Our new website provides a digital home for our mission, vision, programs, partnerships, and initiatives; and for connecting with educators, researchers, schools, universities, policymakers, and community organizations around the world.

What does GITE stand for?

GITE believes that education can be a powerful catalyst for human flourishing, social justice, equity, sustainability, democratic participation, and meaningful societal transformation.

Our work focuses on:

• Transformative and learner-centered education
• Global educational collaboration
• Sustainable education and environmental responsibility
• Equity, diversity, and inclusion
• Critical consciousness and transformative learning
• Curriculum innovation and transformative pedagogies
• Indigenous knowledge and diverse ways of knowing
• Teacher and educational leadership development
• School transformation and improvement
• Research and evidence-based educational practices
• Community engagement and capacity building

Through research, professional development, consulting, conferences, publications, partnerships, and international collaboration, GITE works with educational and community organizations to create more equitable, inclusive, compassionate, and sustainable learning environments.

Our journey began in 2014. Today, our new website marks an important step forward as we continue building a global community committed to transforming education and transforming lives.

Visit our new website and learn more about GITE, our work, and opportunities for collaboration at https://www.gite14.org/

Together, let us reimagine education for a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world.

06/18/2026

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: INCUBATING DATA COMMONS FOR INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES & CULTURES

As AI systems increasingly rely on language and cultural data, Indigenous communities face both unprecedented opportunities and significant risks.

Indigenous languages and cultural knowledge can help shape more inclusive digital futures. Yet too often, communities have limited influence over how their data is collected, governed, used, or shared. There is tremendous opportunity if Indigenous communities are given a say in how their data is used and for what purpose.

To address this opportunity and challenge, The GovLab, Microsoft, and UNESCO, co-designed with a Steering Committee of Indigenous data experts, are launching a new initiative supporting Indigenous-led efforts to develop data commons in the AI era.

What are data commons? Data commons are shared governance frameworks that enable communities to collectively decide how their data is managed, accessed, and used, while ensuring benefits flow back to the communities themselves.

What will Incubator participants receive? Expert mentorship, technical guidance, proposal development support, peer learning opportunities, and capacity-building workshops and clinics.

We invite Indigenous-led teams to submit a concept note outlining their idea, approach, resources, and team. Applications close 14 August 2026.

Learn more and apply at https://newcommons.ai/

They can support, for instance, the responsible development of AI, climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation, public health and pandemic preparedness, sustainable agriculture, scientific research, disaster response, and the preservation, revitalization, and responsible stewardship of Indigeno...

06/08/2026

QUINTA CONFERENCIA MUNDIAL DE EDUCACIÓN TRANSFORMADORA (WCTE 2026)
https://gite.education/wcte-2026/
Tema: “Redefinir la escuela en el siglo XXI para recuperar una educación que transforme”
7–9 de octubre de 2026

La Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile
El Instituto Global para la Educación Transformadora (GITE), en colaboración con la Universidad Católica del Norte, Escuela de Educación de Coquimbo, invita a la comunidad académica y profesional internacional a participar en la Quinta Conferencia Mundial de Educación Transformadora (WCTE 2026).

¿Quiénes pueden participar?

Especialistas en educación, académicos, investigadores, responsables de políticas públicas, profesionales (ingenieros, personal médico, ambientalistas, editores, lingüistas, expertos en literacidad (alfabetización), bibliotecarios, administradores escolares y docentes), estudiantes de pregrado y posgrado, así como estudiosos de todas las disciplinas académicas conocidas y emergentes que deseen compartir sus investigaciones y conocimientos sobre la educación con prácticas y resultados transformadores sólidos.

06/02/2026

A Universidade Federal Indígena (Unind) é uma iniciativa do Ministério da Educação (MEC) e do Ministério dos Povos Indígenas (MPI). Com sua primeira sede a ser implementada em Brasília, a universidade é voltada para a formação de indígenas, nos níveis de graduação e pós-graduação, com base em um modelo educacional que fortalece identidades e saberes tradicionais em diálogo com o conhecimento acadêmico não indígena.

Universidade Federal Indígena (Unind): iniciativa do MEC e do Ministério dos Povos Indígenas para oferecer Educação Superior a indígenas, fortalecendo identidades e saberes tradicionais em diálogo com o conhecimento acadêmico.

05/29/2026

The International Journal of Chinese Education (IJCE) is a fully peer-reviewed and open access journal which publishes research articles on China and Chinese education. Since 2011 IJCE has published authoritative articles which have helped understand and advance significant facets of education.

The International Journal of Chinese Education (IJCE) is a fully peer-reviewed and open access journal which publishes research articles on China and Chinese education. Since 2011 IJCE has published authoritative articles which have helped understand and advance significant facets of education. IJCE...

05/28/2026

World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium
Recognizing and reaffirming the educational rights of all Indigenous peoples
https://winhec.org/

The World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC) was established in August 2002 at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE) in Alberta, Canada. WINHEC’s aim is to bring professionals together to achieve common goals through higher education. Members come from many different countries and a variety of diverse areas such as university departments, research organizations and government agencies.

05/24/2026

Edited Volume (2025) - African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa

Aloysius Ngefac (Anthology Editor) , Paul Zang Zang (Anthology Editor) , Thorsten Brato (Anthology Editor) , Jakob R. E. Leimgruber (Anthology Editor)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/african-englishes-and-multilingualism-for-the-transformative-development-of-postcolonial-africa-9781350510074/

Description

This open access edited volume brings together a team of linguists to explore how indigenized varieties of English and multilingualism interact with the holistic transformation of Africa. Contributors discuss the transformative development vision for Africa with a focus on ex-colonial languages, indigenized varieties and indigenous mother tongues. In doing so, they explore linguistic evolution and developments towards endonormativity, investigate the correlation between the Africanisation of English and transformative development, the indiginization of medical terminology in HIV/AIDS consultations, the interactions of Romance languages with local English varieties, and resonances between decolonizing multilingualisms in Singapore and Africa.

This open access edited volume brings together a team of linguists to explore how indigenized varieties of English and multilingualism interact with the holisti…

05/23/2026

2027 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
https://www.aaal.org/2027-conference

The 2027 in-person conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel, March 13-16, 2027, and the virtual conference will be held on April 16, 2027. It marks the 50th meeting of AAAL. The theme for 2027 is “Focus on the Applied.” AAAL defines applied linguistics as:

An interdisciplinary field of inquiry that addresses a broad range of language-related issues in order to understand their roles in the lives of individuals and conditions in society. It draws on a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches from various disciplines–from the humanities to the social and natural sciences–as it develops its own knowledge-base about language, its users and uses, and their underlying social and material conditions.

Building on this understanding, the 2027 conference draws attention to how work in applied linguistics generates knowledge about the intersection of language with a broad spectrum of experiences and has the potential to inform policy, practice, and public understanding across individual, community, and societal scales. It emphasizes how applied linguistics scholarship inherently reaches beyond academia, both in how issues and topics for research are generated and how findings are used. The extensive scope of applied linguistics means that it is an inter-/transdisciplinary nexus for theories, methods, and approaches from an array of intellectual traditions that are necessary for achieving its collective purpose as a field. The conference highlights how such connections are manifested in different configurations of individuals and teams who draw creatively on ideas from across humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. It also emphasizes how the inter-/transdisciplinary nature of applied linguistics positions the field to engage meaningfully with contemporary societal struggles.