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27 Mar 2024 Ten communicators honored as WACC Laureates

Posted at 15:18h in Communication Rights, News, WACC Africa, WACC Caribbean, WACC Europe, WACC Latin America, WACC North America 0 Comments

WACC’s Board of Directors has named ten individuals as new Honorary Lifetime Members in recognition of their long-time dedication to advancing communication for all. Since 1995, WACC has celebrated individuals from around the world who have upheld the organization’s vision and mission of promoting communication rights...

21 Mar 2024 Radio station boosts vital communication link for Rendille speakers in Kenya

Posted at 17:34h in Community radio, Indigenous, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

A WACC-supported project in Kenya is helping an Indigenous community radio station to serve as an enhanced information channel for the Rendille people and preserve the tribe’s language and culture. In 2021, the Fereiti Action Network, a Kenyan, youth-driven organization for social change, partnered with WACC...

20 Mar 2024 Keep gender at center of global digital governance, NGO CSW68 event urges

Posted at 13:19h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Gender, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

The event “Digital Communication Rights: Empowering women for the digital age” on 12 March at the NGO CSW Forum 68 offered civil society advocates, academics, and media professionals tools to advance a gender-just digital world. The Forum is a civil society gathering held annually in parallel...

Sarah Macharia sits at a presenter table with a man to the left of her and a woman to the right, and speaks into a microphone

13 Mar 2024 Media monitoring key to breaking down gender stereotypes, CSW68 hears

Posted at 18:32h in Gender, GMMP, News 0 Comments

Civil society is a vital catalyst for change when it comes to addressing gender-based prejudices in the news, WACC gender and media expert Sarah Macharia reported at a side event to the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) on Monday...

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08 Mar 2024 CSW68: WACC and partners aim to empower women for the digital age

Posted at 18:02h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Gender, News 0 Comments

WACC and partner organizations are aiming to equip gender justice advocates to advance women’s digital communication rights with an event during the NGO CSW Forum 68 in New York on 11–24 March. The Forum is a civil society gathering held in parallel to the annual session...

A young women of the Lenca nation in Honduras sits at a radio console and speaks into a microphone while working on a laptop

07 Mar 2024 International Women’s Day 2024: #InspireInclusion in and through media

Posted at 17:30h in Calls for Action, Gender, News 0 Comments

International Women's Day is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. Each year, this day serves as a reminder of the progress made towards gender equality and highlights the work that still needs to be done. For International Women’s Day...

Cover of Media Development 1/2024 with title "Towards Democratic Governance of Digital Society" and a futuristic city scene

28 Feb 2024 New Media Development Explores Paths Towards Democratic Digital Governance

Posted at 13:02h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Media Development, News 0 Comments

Civil society advocates are concerned that governments, security services, and Big Tech may misuse digital technologies to suppress, control, and profit from ordinary people, says Philip Lee, Media Development editor, in the 1/2024 issue of WACC’s quarterly journal.The authors in “Towards Democratic Governance of Digital...

Two Cabecar women and two Cabecar girls kneel in discussion over a diagram. They are in a hut with dirt floor in the middle of a circle of people watching them.

23 Feb 2024 Women-led community networks in Costa Rica transmit Indigenous identity to next generations

Posted at 16:05h in Gender, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

A WACC-supported protect in Costa Rica is helping women Indigenous leaders of the Cabécar nation use digital technologies strategically to connect younger generations with their community's culture, knowledge, and language.“Cabécar young people influenced by Western culture are becoming disconnected from ancestral wisdom,” says Kemly Camacho,...

02 Feb 2024 WACC North America affirms focus on migrant media monitoring, elects new board members

Posted at 16:43h in Migrant voices, News, WACC North America 0 Comments

At its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, WACC’s North America regional association affirmed work being done to promote migrants' communication rights and positive narratives about migration, and elected new members to its Regional Executive Committee. Migrant Media Monitoring Project Migration and communication rights was the region’s major...

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26 Jan 2024 WACC calls for rights-based approach to migration narratives at GFMD Summit

Posted at 17:35h in Migrant voices, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

The communication rights of people on the move must be advanced in order to promote inclusive, balanced, and democratic narratives around migration, a WACC delegation underlined at the 14th Summit of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) held in Geneva on 23–25 January.[caption...