WACC emphasized the vital link between communication rights and pressing issues such as climate justice, migrants’ rights, gender equality, freedom of expression, and media viability at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Lyon, France, last week. The event...
WACC has launched a new quiz as a fun way for people to test their knowledge of justice issues related to digital technology. WACC Deputy General Secretary Sara Speicher and WACC Europe President Ralf Peter Reimann, together with WACC partner the Association of Protestant Churches and...
Power is at play when it comes to the question of whose stories, both individual and collective, are preserved as public memory, says Editor Philip Lee in “Archival Justice: Unfinished Business,” the latest issue of Media Development. In his editorial Lee notes that “what is archived...
WACC’s newly appointed international Board of Directors determined steps to strengthen the organization’s mission to promote communication rights as a cornerstone for more just societies when it met in London, UK, on May 10–12. Under the leadership of WACC President Embert Charles and Vice President Mathilde...
The WACC ship has set a course for the future and that is to focus on building a transformative movement that helps shape government policies and actions “founded on human dignity, human rights, and democratic principles,” General Secretary Philip Lee told the organization’s Board of...
President Embert Charles has urged the WACC Board to draw on the wisdom of maturity to promote the mission of communication for all in a post-pandemic world marked by diverse threats to human rights and just societies. “We are all living a second half of life...
Organizations committed to equal, inclusive and sustainable development can take steps to promote a technology ecosystem rooted in human rights, agreed participants at a recent seminar exploring development and digital access co-organized by WACC and the CDAC Network. Information and communication technologies lacking a human rights...
The new WACC UK Board of Directors is meeting in London on 10–12 May to receive reports on WACC’s program, finances, membership, and outreach and to rearticulate the vision and mission of the global organization for communication rights. The Directors will hear from each of the...
The seminar “Development and Digital Access: Are we fostering equitable pathways to inclusion?“ on 11 May will explore how organizations and individuals committed to justice, democratic participation, and equality can promote a technology ecosystem rooted in human rights. WACC and the Communicating with Disaster-Affected Communities (CDAC)...
WACC has launched Voices of the Amazon, a multi-year project in partnership with the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) that will use community radio to enable grassroots communities in the region to be active participants in developing environmental policy. [caption id="attachment_52954" align="alignleft" width="300"] La...