Ever since a right to communicate was imagined by Jean D’Arcy in 1969, the concept has been controversial. Like the right to memory, without which individuals and communities would be deprived of their identity and dignity, neither figures in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
Cees J. Hamelink In a recent book on “Communication and Human Rights”, I propose that all discussions on communication rights, the right to communicate or the right to communication should be based upon the notion of “communicative justice”.1 This means doing justice to the human capacity...
Nico Carpentier Power is pervasive, all-encompassing, and ultimately ungraspable. At the same time, power generates difference through a logic of privilege. Even though a distinction between “the powerless” and “the powerful” is too simplistic, we can still see, throughout the world, assemblages of the privileged, articulating...
Pradip Ninan Thomas The ability to Voice, Access resources and technology, the strengthening of local capabilities within an enabling environment and being able to communicate through a language of one’s choice – these remain fundamental building blocks in the creation of sustainable communication environments. In the context...
María Elena Hermosilla Son meses y días de calor intolerable para una chilena criada en el frío. Es el “calentamiento global”. En el litoral, los incendios forestales queman Viña del Mar y amplios sectores de Valparaíso; se identifican más de ciento treinta muertos. ¿Cuántos más yacerán...
Mathilde Kpalla Il y a plusieurs décennies, Jean d’Arcy a promu sans relâche le concept de droit à la communication dans les instances internationales. Depuis, de sérieux débats continuent sur la reconnaissance ou non de ces droits et surtout l’appréhension de ceux-ci. Comprenons-nous vraiment ce que...
