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...
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...
A radio microphone can be a powerful tool to change narratives around migration, Etaf Roudan of the Community Media Network (CMN), a WACC partner in Jordan, told participants at a side event at the 14th Summit of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD)...
A WACC-supported initiative in Jordan is using animated films and radio to help Syrian refugee children and their families communicate about their experiences and find positive ways to cope with living in forced displacement. With the project, WACC partner Community Media Network (CMN), a leading Jordanian...
The human rights — in particular the communication rights — of people on the move are in the spotlight with the most recent Media Development, WACC’s quarterly journal.The articles in the 4/2023 issue, “Migrant Rights Are Human Rights,” explore the question of how media and...
According to a recent report (The Guardian, 19 May 2023), the BBC has commissioned a study on whether a broad range of viewpoints on migration are being reflected in all aspects of its immigration coverage. Samir Shah, who contributed to the UK government’s controversial Sewell report...
Since the start of the Russian invasion more than a year ago, over 8.1 million people have fled Ukraine. Nearly 4.9 million have obtained some form of temporary protection in different European countries — a major humanitarian challenge for the region, without counting the more...
A communications studio will be established at the Mar Elias Refugee Camp, located south-west of Beirut, as part of a WACC-supported project that aims to advance the communication rights of Palestinian refugee women and girls and to raise awareness in the local media about their...
Lebanese news headlines about migrant workers are "getting more negative," with clear biases detected "by word and tone," says a media monitoring report published as part of a WACC-supported project in Lebanon. The report will be launched via Facebook Live on Sunday, February 27, at...
A former refugee from Syria is urging journalists to avoid the narrative that portrays refugees as succeeding "despite being a refugee" or "despite (their) background," and to recognize instead that people who were forced to flee their homelands do "have an entire life's worth of...