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16 Jul 2021 Gender-equal news coverage crucial in post-pandemic recovery, says UN Women Executive Director

Posted at 07:37h in Communication Rights, Gender, Gender and media: Challenges and opportunities in the post 2015 era, News 0 Comments

Noting that the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) shows that women “remain shockingly underrepresented” in news content around the world, UN Women Executive Director and UN Under-Secretary-General Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka called for more stories that “reflect the diversity of women’s expertise and perspectives.” In a foreword to...

15 Jul 2021 6th GMMP: No country in the world meets the mark on gender equality in news content

Posted at 10:08h in Communication Rights, News, Uncategorised 0 Comments

No country or region in the world has achieved gender equality in terms of people portrayed as subjects and sources in news content, said feminist scholar Sarah Macharia, who shared the results of the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) during an online launch July...

07 Jul 2021 WACC, La Sandia Digital launch podcast for and by refugees in Mexico

Posted at 15:21h in Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

WACC and its partner La Sandía Digital have launched “Emergency Exits,” a new podcast about the lives and experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in Mexico. The podcast, which features the voices and perspectives of people on the move, aims to strengthen their communication rights and...

15 Jun 2021 Colombia: Journalists need to be protected when covering protests

Posted at 09:24h in Calls for Action, Comment, Communication Rights 0 Comments

Since April 28, Colombia has seen an unprecedented wave of demonstrations against various government policies. What started as a national strike against a tax reform bill led by students and labour unions has developed into an ongoing series of protests. Most have been peaceful, but...

04 Jun 2021 WACC Nepal partner, media groups lobby for ‘more inclusive’ communication bills

Posted at 15:57h in Climate Justice, Communication Rights, Community radio, News 0 Comments

The Indigenous Community Radio Network (ICRN), an umbrella organization of 21 Indigenous radio stations in Nepal, and other Nepali media organizations have successfully lobbied their national and provincial governments to introduce new mass communication, media, information and technology bills that are “more inclusive of the...

03 Jun 2021 U of T student is WACC’s new summer intern

Posted at 15:55h in Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

Helen Wu, a third-year student at the University of Toronto, studying jointly with Sheridan College to pursue Visual Culture & Communication, is WACC Global’s new summer intern. Wu says she chose to apply for the position since she found it “really neat that WACC Global advocates...

28 May 2021 Asia’s representation of women in the news still below global average

Posted at 15:30h in Communication Rights, Gender, GMMP 2020, News, Uncategorised 1 Comment

In 2020, women in Asia made up only 21% of people seen, heard, or read about in newspaper, radio, television and digital news, a “marginal improvement” from 10 to 15 years ago, and better than 25 years, but still “consistently below the global average” of...

26 May 2021 Promoting ‘hope speech,’ one post at a time

Posted at 16:08h in Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

There’s a need to address the social and political impact of repeated exposure to images and narratives that denigrate and discriminate particular groups of people in society, not just on social media but in all forms of communication, said WACC General Secretary Philip Lee. Lee was...

25 May 2021 Communication rights on wheels

Posted at 14:32h in Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

Is it…a Popemobile? No, more like a Pressmobile created by Grupo Comunicarte, a longtime WACC project partner based in Colombia. As part of a migration project supported by WACC and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Grupo Comunicarte was supposed to establish a community media...

20 May 2021 International church-based organizations urge Colombian president to stop spiral of violence

Posted at 09:14h in Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

The World Council of Churches, ACT Alliance, Lutheran World Federation, World Communion of Reformed Churches, Anglican Communion, World Methodist Council, Latin American Episcopal Council and World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), in a letter sent 18 May, urged Colombian president Iván Duque Marquéz to stop...