26 Mar 2021 Are Indigenous Voices Being Heard?
Are Indigenous Voices Being Heard? A Study on the State of Indigenous Community Broadcasting in 19 Countries...
24 Mar 2021 Civil society to World Bank: Ensure human rights in Covid-19 support process
Civil society groups urged the World Bank on March 23 to exercise due diligence in supporting Covid-19 responses, citing how some governments have been using the pandemic as a pretext to restrict civic space and silence independent watchdogs. More than 160 countries have imposed more than...
19 Mar 2021 UN member states must address gender representation in the news, says GMMP co-ordinator
The news media are “downplaying women’s leadership during the greatest health crisis of our time,” said Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) global co-ordinator Sarah Macharia during a virtual informal meeting of the 65th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women March 17. “Women...
16 Mar 2021 Human Rights Award 2020 goes to documentary Radio Silence
Radio Silence (Silencio Radio), directed by Juliana Fanjul (Mexico, 2019), has received the WACC-SIGNIS Human Rights Award 2020.[ Click to read this article in French.] A feature-length documentary (77 min.), it highlights the essence of freedom of speech, human rights and democracy expressed by the courage of...
08 Mar 2021 Ecuador project contributes to better reception of migrants
[video width="700" height="550" mp4="https://waccglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/otranoticia-24-ciudadana-venezolana-en-imbabura-los-venezolanos-podemos-aportar-mucho-en-ecuador-solo-pedimos-trabajo.mp4"][/video] A WACC Global-supported project in Ecuador is contributing to the development of an inclusive and rights-based narrative on migration by producing new radio and web content that serves as a counterbalance to xenophobic discourse in the country. The civil society organization, Ecuadorean Network...
04 Mar 2021 GMMP Results: Glacial progress towards media gender equality 25 years on
New data from global research with additional analysis of Covid-19 news Twenty-five years after the Fourth UN World Conference on Women (Beijing), the news media remain far from being inclusive spaces for women, vulnerable women, and historically marginalized groups, according to preliminary results released by the...
01 Mar 2021 GMMP co-ordinator is named ‘Gender Equality Champion’
Free Press Unlimited has named Sarah Macharia, co-ordinator of WACC’s Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) as its first Gender Equality Champion for its Media4Women Campaign, which shares the stories of women “who are already working towards gender equality in the media.” Since the first GMMP was...
23 Feb 2021 See you at the movies?
In the first issue of 2021, WACC’s Media Development magazine explores various aspects of cinema’s future, “recognising that people need art, drama, literature, music, and film in order to help make sense of the world and to find meaning.” Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, which temporarily...
17 Feb 2021 ‘Truthful Voices Matter,’ WACC emphasizes in 2020 Annual Report
In its 2020 Annual Report, WACC Global underscores the urgency of its efforts to promote and strengthen communication rights, noting that the Covid-19 pandemic “has made far more apparent the best and worst aspects of our communication landscape.” On the one hand, the pandemic showed the...
17 Feb 2021 2020 WACC Annual Report
WACC Annual Report 2020...