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WACC releases DVD on communication and peace |
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Friday, 19 June 2009 18:32 |
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By Teresia Mutuku, Communications Officer and Web Manager, WACC  | | WACC has released a DVD on the theme of communicating for peace. The DVD, a first for WACC, is an educational resource for peace advocates and journalists about the importance of telling stories to communicate peace.
The DVD, produced in collaboration with United Church of Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada, comes out of WACC’s global Congress on Communication is peace held in Cape Town, South Africa, October 2008. Over 300 faith based and secular communicators and peace advocates from around the world attended. |
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UN report links poverty with freedom of expression |
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Written by Philip Lee, Deputy Director Program, WACC
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 18:44 |
| The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Mr Frank La Rue, has presented his annual report to the Human Rights Council. The report notes that people affected by extreme poverty risk becoming socially excluded from full participation in the society in which they are living, emphasizing the need for access to information to be guaranteed as a means towards securing participation and accountability. It was presented in Geneva on 2 June 2009.
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Call for manuscripts on ‘Communicating the Environment’ |
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Written by Philip Lee, Deputy Director Program, WACC
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 17:45 |
 | 2009 is a significant year for international political negotiations on the environment, marked by the December meeting of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where a new global treaty on climate, to replace the Kyoto Protocol, will be established. |
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Ending gender discrimination is key to ethical reporting, declares journalists meeting in Brussels |
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Monday, 08 June 2009 20:13 |
By Lavinia Mohr, Director of Programmes, WACC
 | | “There is a new and fresh consciousness of gender equality and women’s rights within journalism and the International Federation of Journalists, IFJ,” the General Secretary of the IFJ, Aidan White, told representatives of about sixty journalists unions from forty-five countries around the world. They gathered in Brussels to attend a two-day conference on Gender and Ethics: Gender Equality in the Newsroom, 30 -31 May 2009.
The event was part of the International Federation of Journalists’ Ethical Journalism Initiative launched in 2008. The IFJ considers fair gender portrayal as part of ethical journalism, and sees it as a vital ethical challenge in journalism. | | Lavinia Mohr, WACC’s Director of Programmes (left) and Mindy Ran, Chair of the IFJ Gender Council. | | |
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Internews launches competition for climate change reporting |
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Monday, 08 June 2009 16:40 |
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 | | WACC was delighted to see Internews open the Earth Journalism Awards competition on World Environment Day with a call to professional and citizen journalists around the world to enter their best reporting on climate change. Winners will be flown to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen this December, where they will cover these pivotal negotiations and be honoured at a high-profile awards ceremony.
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WACC statement on World Environment Day |
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Thursday, 04 June 2009 14:28 |
 | | On World Environment Day, June 5 2009, WACC calls for action rather than words. It is time to move beyond information sharing alone. Time to advance a shared vision of a sustainable future. Time to strengthen capacity building aimed at solving or preventing environmental problems within the constraints of the finite world in which we live. |
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Right to communicate book published |
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Monday, 25 May 2009 15:17 |
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 The Right to Communicate: Historical Hopes, Global Debates and Future Premises has just appeared in print. A major goal is to contribute to an intellectual and multidisciplinary framework that will help better understand emerging issues in the practice of this complex human right.
This is the first book devoted to theme of the right to communicate since 1983 when L.S. Harms and Desmond Fisher published their landmark The Right to Communicate: A New Human Right – now out of print. |
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Global media campaigns support Aung San Suu Kyi |
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Friday, 22 May 2009 17:02 |
 Aung San Suu Kyi has gone on trial at the notorious Insein prison in Rangoon. She is charged with breaching the terms of her house arrest, because of a visit by an American man who swam across a lake to her house earlier this month.
It is still unclear how long the trial will take, but estimates range from a few days to several weeks, as the government is expected to summon 22 witnesses to support its claim. |
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WACC urges radical action on climate justice |
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 00:00 |
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 The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) is calling on religious leaders and communicators to emphasize the need for urgent and radical action on climate change in the run-up to the international Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, 6-18 December 2009.
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WACC photo competition winners announced |
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009 00:00 |
By Teresia Mutuku, Communication Officer and Web Manager, WACC
Winners of this year’s WACC Photo Competition have been announced. The winning photo was submitted by Sudiptorana, a photojournalist from Calcutta, India. The photo features rural women in West Bengal, India, taking part in a traditional boat race, challenging male members of the village. The race was traditionally dominated by men.
The theme of this year’s competition was “Portraying Gender”. Photographers were invited to submit photos that portrayed women or men in ways that offer new perceptions about their roles and responsibilities.
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WACC Congratulates CAMECO |
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009 00:00 |
 | | WACC Congratulates CAMECO (Catholic Media Council) on its 40th Anniversary. The anniversary was marked with a mass celebrated by Archbishop Claudio María Celli, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. | | WACC’s General Secretary Randy Naylor and Daniela Frank, Executive Director of CAMECO enjoying the anniversary celebrations. | | |
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WACC Honorary member dies |
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Monday, 04 May 2009 00:00 |
By María Teresa Aveggio (Aguirre), Programme Manager, WACC
 | | It is with great sadness that WACC has learnt of the death of Dr Albert Bertie Manuel, a WACC Honorary member, on 30th of April 2009, in Santhome, Chennai in India.
Affectionately and widely known as Bertie, Dr Manuel was a key figure in the establishment of the ‘new’ WACC in 1975. He was one of the pioneers that at that time provided a theological framework to the communication task of the Association. He joined WACC in 1973 through the Agency for Christian Literature development (ACLD) and two years later he was appointed Director of the newly formed Print Media Development Unit (PMDU). In later years Bertie became Regional Coordinator for WACC Asia and Director of Project Evaluation. As such, Bertie accompanied a very large number of projects in different parts of the world and developed close relationships with several WACC regional associations. | | Dr. Albert “Bertie” Manuel being awarded the Honorary Life Membership by the then WACC President, Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro. | | |
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Press freedom and responsibility go hand in hand |
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Sunday, 03 May 2009 00:00 |
WACC Statement on World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2009
 | | The potential of media in fostering dialogue, mutual understanding and reconciliation is the theme of the UN World Press Freedom Day 2009.
WACC recognizes – along with many others – that freedom of the press underlies democracy and enhances freedom of expression. The capacity of the ‘fourth estate’ to hold governments and public institutions accountable, to inform and alert the world’s people is indispensible. And never more so than in an age of 24/7 digital communication. |
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Restore media freedom in Fiji |
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Friday, 17 April 2009 00:00 |
 | | In the face of the worsening situation in Fiji, where media are being censored and journalists deported, WACC expresses solidarity with the island nation’s people and especially with WACC members. Fiji’s military government declared a 30-day state of emergency on 10 April under which local news reports critical of the government were banned and international media coverage subjected to censorship. |
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In memoriam Wim Koole (1929-2009) |
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009 00:00 |
By Philip Lee, Deputy Director of Program, WACC  | | Wim Koole, who died on Easter Sunday, 12 April, was one of the earliest Honorary Life Members of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC). In the course of a long life dedicated to his belief in Christian principles of communication, Wim was a pioneer in many aspects of audiovisual work, loyally serving his own company, IKON, and WACC’s European Regional Association.
Daan Buddingh, a former staff member of the Dutch public radio and television broadcaster NCRV, comments that ‘Wim was an excellent tutor and teacher for many of us who were or are active in (religious) broadcasting. He retired in 1989 from IKON, but after that he continued to pursue many activities and TV always remained his passion.’ |
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