Sandra Fisher-Martin's Speech 'The Right To Understand'

In her speech, "The Right to Understand," Sandra Fisher-Martins discusses the importance it is for legal institutions and big firms to simplify their language. In her homeland of Portugal, the illiteracy rate is around eleven percent, with around eighty percent not being able to read anything too different or complex. Fisher-Martins says, "there's a small minority of people who has indeed access to information and can use it to their advantage and a huge majority that can't." This is a problem in a lot of countries, where someone is handed an important document and they aren't able to fully understand what the papers are saying. Fisher-Martins quit her job so that she can completely focus on resolving this issue. She