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...
An analysis of news coverage of the Wet’suwet’en and Coastal GasLink Pipeline conflict by nine Canadian media outlets shows that they have not only reported the issue differently, but that only two of them practiced a “more neutral and objective” reporting, says a recent media...
As countries look ahead to a post-Covid pandemic world and aim to build back better, it is more important than ever to hear and read about women's perspectives and expertise on all issues in the news media, said participants at a WACC-organized NGO CSW forum...
The recent killing of three journalists in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war highlights the importance of protecting and promoting the safety of journalists, particularly female journalists, who are at greater risk of being subjected to gender-based violence, said Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, Chief of UNESCO's...
Students of the Department Christliche Publizistik (Christian Communication) at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, have drafted a "Readers' Charter" as part of their online course, Entertaining Angels Unawares – Forced Displacement and Migration in the Media. The course, held November 2021 to February 2022, was a...
On March 8, International Women's Day (IWD), the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) and the World Council of Churches (WCC) hosted a gender and media roundtable which concluded with joint message to #BreaktheBias. Participants in the roundtable held online considered the role of media in...