Promoting Communication for Social Change
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Recognising and Building Communication Rights Print E-mail

 CECOPI Tiwanacu  BoliviaClaiming and using communication rights are integral to shaping societies that fully respond to human needs and people everywhere needs to improve their economic, political, social and cultural lives. Attaining communication rights for women is a step towards gender equality. Projects will claim and build communication rights for human development, social inclusion, and participatory citizenship, as well as creating an enabling environment by advancing awareness and recognition of communication rights locally, nationally or internationally.

For more resources on communication rights visit: WACC’s Centre for Communication Rights portal

Objectives

  1. Increase awareness and recognition of communication rights as a human right and as a part of fair and sustainable political, social, cultural and economic development.
  2. Promote awareness and recognition of women’s communication rights.
  3. Advance the communication rights of marginalised groups including indigenous and tribal peoples, disabled people, refugees, migrants and others, or strengthen their communication capacity through training, equipment acquisition, networking, research and advocacy.
  4. Enable communities to access and make use of appropriate information and communication technologies.


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Links

Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Resources


 Guia periodística de comunicación y discapacidad: desde un enfoque inclusivo
 

The No-Nonsense Guide to indigenous Peoples

The No-Nonse Guide to Communication Rights

Why are communication rights so controversial?

The right to communicate affirms and restores human dignity

Communication is Inscribed in Human Nature

Current Projects

Staff Contact

María Teresa Aveggio (Aguirre)

Programme Updates

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Thursday, 2 July 2009
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009
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Friday, 22 May 2009
Guía Periodística: Por una comunicación inclusiva
Tuesday, 30 November 1999
Voces juveniles delinean el Derecho a la Comunicación
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Peruvian citizens demand better TV
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Unique talk show on Arabic satellite TV promotes the rights of disabled people
Monday, 2 March 2009
Rural women in Congolese village launch a community radio station
Monday, 2 March 2009
Organizations in Middle East monitor media images of violence against women
Monday, 2 March 2009
Palestinian women launch website
Tuesday, 30 November 1999

WACC promotes communication for social change. It believes that communication is a basic human right that defines people's common humanity, strengthens cultures, enables participation, creates community and challenges tyranny and oppression.

The World Association for Christian Communication is a UK Registered Charity (number 296073) and a Company registered in England and Wales (number 2082273) with its Registered Office at 71 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX. It is an incorporated Charitable Organisation in Canada (number 83970 9524 RR0001) with its head office at 308 Main Street, Toronto ON, M4C 4X7.