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06 Dec 2019 Highlighting traditional and Indigenous climate knowledge at COP25

Posted at 11:50h in Climate Justice, Communication Rights, Features, Statements and Calls to Action, Statements and Calls to Action 0 Comments

Some 25,000 government, private sector, scientific community, and civil society representatives from over 200 countries are currently attending the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid, Spain. It is increasingly clear that climate change is no longer a future problem – the past five years have been the...

29 Nov 2019 Nepal Indigenous community radio stations get a boost from WACC-supported project

Posted at 11:53h in Communication Rights, News, Uncategorised, WACC Asia 0 Comments

Twenty-four technicians and broadcasters from 21 community radio stations in Nepal are now able to repair and conduct technical maintenance of broadcasting equipment on their own, thanks to a WACC-supported training conducted by its local partner, Indigenous Community Radio Network (ICRN). ICRN is an umbrella organization...

26 Nov 2019 WACC takes part in workshop to reclaim people’s digital power

Posted at 11:48h in Communication Rights, News, WACC Europe 0 Comments

WACC Deputy General Secretary Sara Speicher recently took part in a workshop, Data and Digital Intelligence as People’s Resources: Reclaiming Freedom and Control in a Data-based Society, held in Berlin November 23-24. The event, sponsored by the Just Net Coalition, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Bread for...

22 Nov 2019 Get the latest issue of Media Development: Communication pirates of the Caribbean

Posted at 11:46h in Communication Rights, Media Development, News, Uncategorised 0 Comments

This year’s last issue of WACC’s quarterly journal, Media Development, takes an in-depth look at the state of the Caribbean’s media and communications industry and their influence on the region’s socio-economic and political environments. The issue’s theme, Communication pirates of the Caribbean, which references the popular...

19 Nov 2019 Giving voice to Georgia’s Generation Z

Posted at 11:38h in Communication Rights, Europe, News 0 Comments

One hundred students from four public and one private school in Georgia are now providing weekly broadcast and blogs on issues that matter to them, including human rights, gender equality and bullying, thanks to a WACC-supported project. WACC partner Helping Hand, a women-run civil society organisation...

27 Sep 2019 WACC launches Many Voices One World initiative

Posted at 09:07h in Citizen Journalism, Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

WACC has launched Many Voices One World - the new online home for the Centre for Communication Rights – as a multi-media website dedicated to supporting vibrant citizen media, democratic communication ecosystems and open access to information and knowledge.
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17 Sep 2019 WACC publishes No-Nonsense Guide to Communication Rights and the Internet

Posted at 09:27h in Communication Rights, Media Development, News 0 Comments

Over half of the world’s population of 7.7 billion are connected to the Internet, which has profoundly changed the way people live, work and communicate....

06 Sep 2019 WACC draws attention to billions left out of digital technology

Posted at 09:05h in Communication Rights, News, Statements and Calls to Action 0 Comments

On International Literacy Day, Saturday, September 8, WACC calls attention to the digital divide that excludes billions of people around the world – including Indigenous people and linguistic minorities – from accessing and distributing information through digital communication platforms.

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09 Jul 2019 Narrow the gaps! The United Nations is listening

Posted at 12:44h in Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

UN meetings are often bureaucratic. This one has a sense of urgency.

With its rather dull title, the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is taking place in New York 9-18 July 2019. Its theme...

08 Jul 2019 SDGs bound to fail without civil society, access to information

Posted at 09:05h in Communication Rights, News, WACC Africa, WACC Asia, WACC Caribbean, WACC Latin America, WACC Middle East, WACC Pacific 0 Comments

The growing trend of shrinking civic spaces around the world is likely to end or reverse progress towards reducing inequality, ensuring inclusion, and achieving a sustainable future for all, a research by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has concluded.

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