Venezuelan migrants, who already face economic difficulties resulting from their migration to neighbouring countries like Colombia, are also experiencing a host of health issues, according to a study conducted by WACC partners Grupo Comunicarte, Fundacion Comunicacion Positiva and Fe Y Alegreria Venezuela Radio Institute. Migrants who often...
WACC is dismayed to learn that its long-time partner CIESPAL, Ecuador, is facing enormous difficulties that are threatening its very survival. The history of social communications in Latin America would be incomplete if it omitted the extraordinary and far-reaching work of CIESPAL - the International Centre...
WACC is supporting a project in Guatemala that seeks to document and popularize ancestral Mayan ecological knowledge for climate change resilience and mitigation. Guatemala, which has been experiencing extreme weather conditions ranging from severe droughts to devastating floods, has been ranked among countries most vulnerable to...
There is widespread dismay at the spectre of former US President Donald Trump setting up his own social media app provocatively named TRUTH. A press release dated 20 October 2021 announced a merger between Trump Media & Technology Group and Digital World Acquisition Corp., stating that...
Understanding Global Warming of 1.5°C Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change A Special Report by the IPCC on "the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate...
On November 5, 2021 WACC will join hundreds of organizations around the world in a 24-hour Video Marathon, Hands Off our Rights, Hands off our Planet!, which will take place during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow. The climate summit will be held...