At its 2025 Annual General Meeting, WACC’s regional association in North America affirmed its commitments to furthering communication rights in the areas of gender justice, digital justice, and migrant rights, and held elections for its Regional Executive Committee. WACC North America (WACC-NA) president Susan Jackson Dowd...
French and Spanish speakers have a new resource for living justly and working for justice in our digital world. WACC has launched “Just Digital” in French (Justement Numérique) and Spanish (Justamente Digital) to help even more individuals and groups navigate wisely online and advocate effectively. Lea en...
Conservative attacks on “DEI” and “woke”* policies and practices in the United States intensified in the run up to the presidential election. So, it should not come as a complete surprise that from the moment of Donald Trump’s inauguration, an assault on “diversity, equity, and...
Binding frameworks and renewed action are needed to advance gender justice in and through the media 30 years after United Nations member states adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, concluded a parallel event co-organized by WACC at the 69th session of the UN Commission on...
Will the United Nations Global Digital Compact (GDC) meets its aim of fostering an inclusive, open, safe, and secure digital future for all?Its success or failure hangs on how it is put into practice, say WACC and its partners, in a new implementation roadmap rooted...
WACC and partner organizations will review progress towards global commitments to advance gender equality in and through the media and will propose guidelines for future action with an event during the NGO CSW Forum 69 taking place in New York City on 10–21 March.The Forum...
2025 is a year of notable international anniversaries. This past Saturday, March 8, was the 50th anniversary of International Women’s Day being held on that date. (The commemoration of women’s day itself goes back over a hundred years ago.) In July, the World Summit on the...
Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) Statement and Call to Action – 3 March 2025 Beijing+30: Upholding Commitments in Section J on “Women and the Media” Communication rights – particularly those of women and marginalized groups – are under severe threat world wide. This year, 2025, marks...