Seems like you can’t fight for recognition of women in discussions about diversity without being drawn into TERF wars. The TERF—trans-exclusionary radical feminist—label is increasingly being applied to disparage voices urging protection of the modest gains for women in the steep road to gender equality,...
As the Global 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence launch for 2022 on 25 November, WACC is calling on its members and partners to take action to end digital violence against women. The United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) defines digital violence as violence that is...
The latest issue of Media Development, WACC’s quarterly journal, brings together touchstone documents on communication for a better future from over nearly two decades. The documents reveal a clear vision for the democratization of communication that has not yet been attained—and thus are a call for...
[caption id="attachment_49526" align="alignleft" width="190"] MD 2022-4[/caption] Media Development 2022-4 Statements on Communication for a better future The documents in this issue of Media Development show that the democratization of communication has remained a persistent yet unattained vision. Civil society interventions are still desperately needed: to create greater awareness...
Unfulfilled expectations dating back over fifty years to the evocative call for a New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) have spiralled into a digital age, in which political, economic, social and cultural life is being transformed by technologies that are challenging long-held notions of...
WSIS Civil Society Declaration We, women and men from different continents, cultural backgrounds, perspectives, experience and expertise, acting as members of different constituencies of an emerging global civil society, considering civil society participation as fundamental to the first ever held UN Summit on Information and Communication...