In this issue: World Press Freedom Day 2012: WACC calls for code of ethics for citizen journalism. Also in this issue: ARTICLE 19 releases regional legal resources on freedom of expression. WACC secures a permanent place on GlobalGiving fundraising website. HIV/AIDS stigma reduction project by Grassroots Female Communicators...
Want to know if it's okay to expose environmental hazards in your country, write a scathing critique on a government official, or set up a blog under a pseudonym, but don't know where to start? Check out ARTICLE 19's legal analyses to see at a...
By Teresia Mutuku, Communication Officer and Web Manager, WACC On the small Pacific island of Tahiti, located over 15,000 kilometers from Sierra Leone in West Africa, members of Maohi protestant Church generously responded to a WACC appeal for support for Radio Shalom. They came together to...
Source: Dominica Haule, project co-ordinator, GRAFCA A workshop in rural Tanzania provided an opportunity to map a sustainable communication strategy to address HIV and AIDS related stigma at the grassroots level. The workshop was one of several components of an on-going WACC-funded project implemented by Grassroots...
By Maria Teresa Aveggio, staff liaison with WACC-Latin America The annual meeting of the WACC-Latin America Regional Association (CER), held in La Paz, Bolivia, March 29-April 1, ended with a call from the Regional President, José Luis Aguirre, to personal and corporate members in Latin America...
By Teresia Mutuku, Communication Officer and Web Manager, WACC Sierra Leone in West Africa is still on the road to recovery after being devastated by a decade of civil war in which tens of thousands of people were killed, children recruited as soldiers, given drugs and...