About 4,700 rural women, youth, students, and members of marginalized communities in India will receive digital literacy and skills training as part of a WACC-supported project being implemented by local non-profit groups Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and Wireless Women Engineers (WWE). The Digital Justice Program aims...
WACC and the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) on May 20 highlighted the need to provide migrants with life-saving, culturally-sensitive information as well as communication tools during a side event they hosted at the International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) on May 20, 2022 at...
Saying that the world is at a critical juncture — with challenges posed by the climate crisis, divisiveness, and other social issues — Cree Elder Doreen Spence writes in the latest issue of Media Development, WACC’s international quarterly journal: “This is the time for humanity...
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) and the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) are hosting a side event with the civil society space at the upcoming International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) scheduled May 17-20, 2022, at the UN headquarters in New York City. The...
A week after its launch, the 100 Languages in 100 Days Challenge by WACC and the World Council of Churches (WCC) has received seven translations and 15 commitments to translate from volunteers worldwide.“With the translations and commitments, we have already reached over 20% of our...
A well-equipped and well-trained network of Indigenous reporters focused on human rights reporting has been established as part of a WACC-supported project in Honduras. The project, ICTs for Community Development and Human Rights in Honduras, trained 14 community reporters (50% women) from seven community radio stations,...
WACC is supporting a project that aims to increase public knowledge about the causes and effects of global warming in Haiti, Jamaica, and Saint Lucia.The project will do so by increasing the "quantity and quality of information exchange" among agroecological organizations and alternative communication organizations...
Do you love languages? Do you believe that everyone should be able to use their own language to access knowledge and information, and share their concerns — online and offline? And are you willing to share your translation skills to help bridge the Internet's linguistic...
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...
On April 26, WACC partners from across Latin America participated in aknowledge sharing event organized by the Latin American Association for Radio Education (ALER) and the International Centre for Communication Research in Latin America (CIESPAL), both leading institutions in the struggle for communication rights in...