In response to growing resource extraction activities in the Ecuadorian Amazon, WACC Global is supporting a project that will help four local Indigenous community radio stations produce innovative content that promotes the protection of ancestral lands from a human rights and gender justice perspective.
Mining, oil exploration, industrial logging and agriculture have been taking a toll on the traditional...
Sameera Zoroub, who graduated with a degree in media, used to think that her social media accounts were “secure and protected.”
But when she attended a Digital Security workshop organized in late June by Community Media Centre, a Palestinian NGO, she realized that there was so much she didn’t know about safely navigating the mobile and online world.
At the end of the...
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Electronic tagging has always been controversial. Today it is being touted in the name of health security.
A WACC-supported project has been training Ecuadorian and Colombian citizen journalists on investigative journalism, media production, migrants’ rights, and human security to equip them with new skills that will help meet the communication and information needs of migrants and host communities in their midst.
Coordinadora de Medios Comunitarios Populares y Educativos del Ecuador -CORAPE (Ecuadorian Network of Community, Popular and...
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Protests against racism unleashed by the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, at the hands of police in Minneapolis spread all over the United States, Canada, and parts of Europe in May and June of this year.
[caption id="attachment_26345" align="alignleft" width="203"] Neville Jayaweera[/caption]
WACC notes with sadness the death of its former Director of Research and Planning, Neville Jayaweera, at the age of 89.
Appointed by Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake, to be both Chairman and Director-General of the then Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation in 1966,...
