The Global Compact for Migration is the first-ever UN global agreement on a common approach to international migration in all its dimensions. The global compact is non-legally binding. It is grounded in values of state sovereignty, responsibility-sharing, non-discrimination, and human rights, and recognizes that a...
Choose the language you use carefully. Consider the ideologies and connotations behind the words you use. Challenge stereotypes, and avoid sweeping generalisations. There is no one single migrant/Muslim/Jewish/Roma “community”, but instead diverse communities of individuals who have more to offer that just their migrant, ethnic...
Rey Asis For the more than 95 million international migrants in Asia Pacific, many of whom are temporary migrant workers, exercising communication rights is vital for them to navigate their new environment, communicate well with employers, peers and community, or simply express themselves confidently, responsibly and...
Doris Falcón La crisis en Venezuela se ha profundizado durante los años 2021, 2022 y lo que va de 2023, con lo cual se afirma que aún se mantienen las condiciones económicas, sociales y políticas que expulsaron a más de 7 millones de personas según informe...
Juan Patricio Gavilán Since the 1960s, the indigenous people of West Papua have endured a repressive colonial occupation by Indonesia, heavily militarised and extractivist, it has been called “Indonesia’s Palestine” and a “slow motion genocide”. Foreign journalists have been banned from the region and UN bodies,...
Lekan Otufodunrin Zara Musthapha, an 18-year-old girl has lived with her parents and siblings in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Doron Baga, Borno State in Northern Nigeria for about five years. The family had been displaced from their hometown in the Kodunga Local Government...
José Luis Soto El fenómeno de la migración mundial adquiere hoy día dimensiones y caracterizaciones llamadas a investigar, en la búsqueda de soluciones conjuntas como se ha estado planteando en el Pacto Mundial para la Migración Segura, Ordenada y Regular. El tema de la migración es que...
Solange De La Cruz Matos El discurso, como suceso de comunicación, es utilizado por las personas para transmitir ideas, creencias y expresar emociones, o cuando se lee o escribe una noticia periodística.1 Los medios de comunicación desempeñan un rol de primer orden en la construcción y...
Javier Tolcachier El contexto de una digitalización acelerada revoluciona el funcionamiento de la interrelación social, afectando todos los campos de actividad humana y por supuesto, al campo específico de la comunicación. La internet y sus tecnologías conexas, que idealmente pudieran servir para una mayor democratización del conocimiento...
At a WACC Partners’ Consultation held in Nairobi, Kenya, 3 August 2023, participants agreed on the following Agenda in preparation for WSIS+20 due to take place in 2025. Digital communication rights include the right to access the Internet; the right to not have internet shutdowns; the...
