Actionable steps to stop violence against women and girls in and through the media, informed by the 7th Global Media Monitoring Project - GMMP, is the aim of the WACC session on 17 March at 18:30–20:00 EDT (UTC-4) during the 70th session of the UN...
A new WACC-supported initiative aims to generate widespread awareness of the environmental protection and climate justice efforts of local communities across the Brazilian Amazon, placing their solutions, voices, and concerns at the very heart of policy responses. “Local Voices for Climate Justice in Brazil” is being...
While the lens of climate justice has gained a foothold in climate policy spaces, “the world also needs to pay attention to how communication and information deficits undermine the struggle for climate justice,” writes Media Development editor Philip Lee. The response to climate change, “the most...
WACC’s regional association in North America looked back at work in 2025 and recommitted to communicating truth and being voices of justice in difficult times, when its members gathered online recently for its annual general meeting, drawing hope and inspiration from the many years of...
During the latest WACC Europe online discussion, communicators from five continents examined how digital technologies intersect with fundamental questions of justice and equity. Everything is digital, and everywhere it is a justice issue, from the materials powering our smartphones to the algorithms controlling what...
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The European Festival for Religious TV and Online Programmes is expanding space for vital dialogue with its next edition, “Belief on Screen: Communicating Religion, Faith, and Ethics,” on 23–25 September in Copenhagen, Denmark.“Being more alone in the world than for many years, Europe needs to...
Yorman Galviz, a WACC-supported community reporter at this year’s UN climate summit, reflects on how COP30 became a space to corroborate the importance of local and community media in democratizing information and giving space to the diversity of actors working for climate justice. Leer en español The...
Being seen and heard means having a voice in shaping your future and that of your community and society. In a world where too many are invisible and too many voices are silenced, may we help to let the light of inclusive, democratic, and empowering communication...
After all, that is the vision of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), whose +20 outcomes will be finalized by UN member states this week (December 16–17). Both at the WSIS+20 High-Level Meeting in July in Geneva and in the negotiations involved in drafting...