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Syrian refugee man holds his young daughter wrapped in an emergency blanket and speaks into a mobile phone

23 May 2025 WACC Annual Report 2024 highlights collective work to enable a future for all

Posted at 18:26h in Climate Justice, Communication Rights, Digital Justice, Gender, Indigenous, Migrant voices, News 0 Comments

WACC’s Annual Report 2024 “Enabling a Future for All” brings to life the organization’s collective work last year to advocate for digital justice, gender justice, and climate justice, and to put people at the center of digital societies.“WACC has added its voice to the struggle...

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08 Apr 2025 Project shines light on stories of migrant women and girls in Latin America

Posted at 19:27h in Migrant voices, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

A WACC-supported project is using podcasts and curated storytelling to raise awareness of the lived experience of migrant women and girls in Latin America and the need to recognize climate change as a driver of forced migration.Run by ALC Noticias, an ecumenical communications agency, the...

A girl wearing headphones speaks a radio script into a micophone

15 Aug 2024 Communication school empowers migrant, host communities in Colombia and Venezuela

Posted at 17:34h in Migrant voices, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

A WACC-supported project is training members of migrant and host communities on both sides of the Colombian–Venezuelan border as citizen reporters to provide accurate information, address common issues, and foster social cohesion. The Binational School of Community Communication is an integration initiative based on exercising the...

17 Jun 2024 It doesn’t have to be hate speech to harm

Posted at 08:00h in Comment, Communication Rights, Migrant voices 0 Comments

June 18 is the International Day for Countering Hate Speech and June 20 is World Refugee Day. With migrants and refugees often targeted by hate, it can be natural – and even useful – to mark the days together. Certainly WACC Europe, after their 2017 media...

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14 Jun 2024 “You Are Not Alone” project meets communication, information needs of migrants in Asia Pacific

Posted at 16:28h in Migrant voices, Multi-year Projects, News 0 Comments

WACC has launched the “You Are Not Alone” project in partnership with the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) and co-funder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) to empower migrants in the region at risk of human trafficking and exploitation to advance their communication...

An Indigenous woman speaks into a microphone with her other hand raised in a fist. People behind her hold a colorful banner.

14 Jun 2024 WACC’s Annual Report 2023 spotlights work for communication justice for all

Posted at 13:48h in Climate Justice, Communication Rights, Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Gender, Indigenous, Migrant voices, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

WACC’s Annual Report 2023 “Communication Justice for All” showcases the organization’s collective work last year to speak up for and advance just, inclusive, and community-led communication worldwide.“WACC believes in communication that builds and shapes community, enhances participation, and promotes freedom. Communication that demands accountability, builds...

Portrait photos of Anna Coulibaly, Luis Fernando Gómez Gutiérrez, Christina Pope, Lorenzo Vargas, and Clarice Canonizado

31 May 2024 Put migrants at the center to shape rights-based narratives about migration

Posted at 16:34h in Migrant voices, News 0 Comments

To enable migrants to be seen and heard, we must ensure that they are at the center of our conversations, urged panelists from Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin America at WACC’s most recent Conversation Circle “Unheard Migrant Voices: Why Promoting Rights-Based Narratives on Migration...

A Rohingya refugee man crosses a bridge with blankets and supplies on his shoulder

16 May 2024 Conversation Circle to look at promoting migrant voices and positive migration narratives

Posted at 17:40h in Migrant voices, News 0 Comments

A WACC online discussion on 22 May will highlight tested solutions to enable migrants and refugees to be seen and heard, and identify action steps to change media and political narratives about migration.The 90-minute Conversation Circle “Unheard Migrant Voices: Why Promoting Rights-Based Narratives on Migration...

02 Feb 2024 WACC North America affirms focus on migrant media monitoring, elects new board members

Posted at 16:43h in Migrant voices, News, WACC North America 0 Comments

At its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, WACC’s North America regional association affirmed work being done to promote migrants' communication rights and positive narratives about migration, and elected new members to its Regional Executive Committee. Migrant Media Monitoring Project Migration and communication rights was the region’s major...

Two young women walk along the side of a highway with the sun rising behind them. One is wearing a backpack and the is carrying a bag over each shoulder. They look down at the ground.

26 Jan 2024 WACC calls for rights-based approach to migration narratives at GFMD Summit

Posted at 17:35h in Migrant voices, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

The communication rights of people on the move must be advanced in order to promote inclusive, balanced, and democratic narratives around migration, a WACC delegation underlined at the 14th Summit of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) held in Geneva on 23–25 January.[caption...