Marceline Nyambala
Women’s voices and faces remain in short supply in mainstream/legacy media, although growing slowly over the 25 years since the 1995 Beijing conference, that put forward Article J on Women and Media among other articles.
It would seem as if women’s voices in media have...
Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls
During 2019, it has been interesting to hear through the UN system a reference to the Peace, Development and Humanitarian Nexus approach, which a number of us have been communicating – because that is our reality.
Just as climate security does not mean militarisation of...
Cédric Leterme
Le 25 novembre dernier, en marge de l’Internet Governance Forum (IGF), à Berlin, un réseau d’activistes et d’intellectuels a publié un « manifeste pour la justice numérique » intitulé « un Appel à prendre en main notre avenir numérique ».1 L’objectif ? Se réapproprier un « pouvoir numérique » aujourd’hui concentré...
Warsaw (Poland) 2019
At the 35th International Film Festival Warsaw 11-20 October 2019, the award of the Ecumenical Jury went to Omar ve biz (Omar and Us) directed by Maryna Er Gorbach and Mehmet Bahadir Er (Turkey, 2019).
Motivation: The contact with two Syrian refugees leads a...
In 2019, a year marked by divisive politics, attacks on journalists, xenophobia, digital surveillance and harassment, and other threats to freedom of information and democracy, WACC Global continued to make a positive difference, especially among vulnerable people and communities around the world.
With WACC’s support, 79...
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Surveillance and loss of privacy are watchwords in the digital transformation of societies worldwide.
Who is watching us and for what purposes? Who is infringing private spaces and closing down public spaces? When it comes to communication infrastructures and technologies, accessibility and affordability are no longer enough, simply because neither governments nor corporate entities can be trusted to play fair.