The International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters (IAPTI), an NPO

NPO

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, is a translators and interpreters association.

Organization

Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Argentina

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, it was established on 30 September, 2009, Saint Jerome

Saint Jerome

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's day. Created by a group of professional language mediators as a vehicle for promoting ethical practices in translation and interpretation and providing a forum for discussing problems typical of the globalized world, such as crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing

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, outsourcing

Outsourcing

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, bad rate

Fee

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s and other abuse.

Honorary members

Its honorary members are the following:

• Noam Chomsky
  Noam Chomsky
  Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...
  
  
• Mona Baker
  Mona Baker
  Mona Baker is an Egyptian professor of translation studies and Director of the Centre for Translation and International Studies at the University of Manchester in England.-Career:...
  
  
• Valentín García Yebra
  Valentín García Yebra
  Valentín García Yebra , was a Spanish philologist, translator and translation scholar.-Biography:...
  
   (in memoriam)
• Sergio Viaggio
• Fernando Navarro
• Suzanne Jill Levine
• Ricardo Chiesa
• Lucille Barnes