Women Making Airwaves for Peace (WMAP), 3-7 October 2009, Bangalore, India, will bring together some 30 women community radio broadcasters from the Asia Pacific region. It is a space where participants share their experiences, particularly best practices towards engendered peace building and disaster management - enabling community radio to empower women in crisis situations.

  

By María Teresa Aveggio (Aguirre), Programme Manager, WACC & Teresia Mutuku, Communications Officer and Web Manager, WACC 

 

		Based in Hong Kong since 1984, the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) is a church-based regional migrant centre working for the promotion and protection of the rights and wellbeing of migrants in the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions. It has consistently promoted and protected the rights and welfare of migrants in both regions which attract large numbers of migrants, the majority of whom work as domestic labourers. Although originally APMM’s constituency was the Filipino migrant community, APMM also services other migrant groups including Indonesian, Nepali, Thai and Sri Lankan. APMM is committed to support the international migrants’ movement through advocacy, organizing and building linkages and networks for the advancement of migrants’ rights in the host countries.
APMM’s Managing Director, Ramon Bultron addressing staff at WACC.

Presentan exposición fotográfica  “Si Haití fuera Blanco”  con en apoyo de WACC-Espacio Insular y Universidad de Puerto Rico en Humacao  

DAJABÓN, República Dominicana.-  El 28 de mayo, en la ciudad de Dajabón, ubicada en el Noroeste de República Dominicana y justo en la zona fronteriza más porosa  con   Haití, se presentó la exposición fotográfica “Si Haití fuera Blanco”, de la artista Joselyn Ponce Barnés. La actividad contó  con el apoyo  de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Humacao,  La región del Caribe de la Asociación Mundial para la Comunicación Cristiana, Espacio Insular, Solidaridad Fronteriza y el Proyecto Atlantea de la Universidad de Puerto Rico.

By Lavinia Mohr, Director of Programmes, WACC

WACC received almost 140 proposals for project support partnerships by the 15 February 2009 deadline. Together these proposals total more than 2.2 million Euros – an amount considerably larger than the funds available to WACC for project partnerships. The number of proposals received is seventy percent higher than the number received last year. The WACC General Secretariat was pleased with an increase in the number of project proposals from Asia and Africa.

By María Teresa Aveggio (Aguirre), Programme Manager, WACC 

“Geha Junction, Tel Aviv, a busy neighbourhood. Here, hundreds of Palestinians live in a derelict underground multi-storey car park, part of an abandoned, unfinished shopping mall. They slip into Israel to find work, to try to bring home a small wage. Most nights of the week they stay here, in subhuman conditions, six floors below ground in the darkness amid dripping water, rubble and filth.” (Synopsis - http://www.lidf.co.uk/lidf09/films/six-floors-to-hell/)

  Por José Luis Aguirre

	La inclusión se convierte en un reto cotidiano que no sólo debe acompañar el crecimiento mismo del espacio de derechos en cada una de nuestras sociedades. También involucra la franca valoración y espacio que se vayan dando desde el debate público a nociones como las de la diversidad humana, cultural y social, relaciones equitativas así como a una misma democracia plural.