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WACC Annual Report 2024 highlights collective work to enable a future for all
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Syrian refugee man holds his young daughter wrapped in an emergency blanket and speaks into a mobile phone

23 May 2025 WACC Annual Report 2024 highlights collective work to enable a future for all

Posted at 18:26h in Climate Justice, Communication Rights, Digital Justice, Gender, Indigenous, Migrant voices, News by

WACC’s Annual Report 2024 “Enabling a Future for All” brings to life the organization’s collective work last year to advocate for digital justice, gender justice, and climate justice, and to put people at the center of digital societies.

“WACC has added its voice to the struggle for a world in which everyone can communicate. This means rethinking power structures, including how to decolonialize the public communication sphere,” says General Secretary Philip Lee in his message.

Collage showing schoolchildren looking at a mobile phone, four girls and teacher looking at tablet, two women walking alongside a road, an Indigenous woman giving an interview, an Indigenous young man looking at a mobile phone

The resource features work in WACC’s strategic priority areas of climate, gender, digital technologies, forced migration, and Indigenous peoples, as well as communication rights more broadly:

  • A roadmap to a digital future for all developed by WACC project partners
  • Encouraging Digital Justice Champions through the “Just Digital” online course
  • Taking action for equitable and inclusive online spaces with the “Stop TFGBV” initiative
  • Shifting the migration narrative by raising communication rights voices at the Summit of the Global Forum on Media and Development
  • Bringing Indigenous voices to the fore via community media partners at the Pan-Amazon Social Forum
  • Demonstrating the core role of community radio for climate action with the Voices of the Amazon publication

Annual Report 2024 readers can discover more about projects in the Philippines, Uganda, Jordan, Guatemala, and Zimbabwe within WACC’s Communication for All Programme (CAP)  – examples of the movement for communication justice in action in different regions of the world in 2024.

Collage with group of Filipinos holding a sign, Ugandan woman speaking in front of a whiteboard, children in a home theater, two Indigenous women writing on a flip chart, Zimbabwean women in a garden

Lee looks ahead to WACC’s work with civil society organizations in 2025 to promote local responses to the needs of marginalized communities and to bring human dignity and the right to communicate into the digital equation through advocacy at the World Summit on the Information Society+20 in July in Geneva.

Bringing WACC’s voice to shape public debate and action is a joint endeavor, Lee says, quoting Graça Machel, deputy chair of the Elders: “It is only through our collective efforts that we can make progress.”

Yalsin Nakasha, a Syrian refugee, holds his daughter Zahara, 3, as he uses his mobile phone to inform his family that he arrived safely on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos just minutes earlier. Photo: Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth

Cover of WACC's "2024 Annual Report" with the title "Enabling a Future for All" and a Syrian refugee man holding a young girl wrapped in a blanket and a foil emergency blanket. She is holding a teddy bear, and he is speaking into a mobile phone.

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