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08 Apr 2020 Communication Saves Lives: WACC Rapid Response Fund for Community Media

Posted at 13:38h in Communication Rights, Community Radio (2012-2016), News, Statements and Calls to Action, Statements and Calls to Action

In times of crisis, information saves lives. In the response to Covid-19, we see how vital it is to get accurate and trusted messages to people so that they know what they need to do and where they can get help when they need it. For many...

08 Apr 2020 Communication saves lives, strengthens solidarity

Posted at 13:33h in Communication Rights, News, Resources, Statements and Calls to Action, Statements and Calls to Action

The global Covid-19 pandemic has shown how vital it is to get accurate and trusted information to communities in languages and channels that they understand. It has also raised awareness of the opportunities - and rights-based challenges - of digital communication. WACC and its partners...

07 Apr 2020 Communication in local languages vital in crisis situations

Posted at 15:51h in Climate Justice, Communication Rights, Covid-19, News

As Pacific Island Governments work on a coordinated regional response to Covid-19, Tropical Cyclone Harold, which has already hit the Solomon Islands and bears down at category 5 level on Vanuatu, the region faces a stark reminder that climate-related disasters remain a major security threat. In...

03 Apr 2020 Indigenous community radio addresses critical gap in Covid-19 information

Posted at 15:42h in Communication Rights, Covid-19, News

WACC is surveying its community media partners on their response to COVID-19 and their needs to help keep the communities they serve informed and safe. Community media need your help! Please donate to the Community Media Rapid Response Fund. WACC Global’s grassroots partners in Ecuador and Nepal are actively responding...

31 Mar 2020 WACC announces support for digital justice

Posted at 13:30h in Communication Rights, Digital Rights, News

As part of its efforts to promote communication rights around the world, WACC is proud to announce the launch of its new Communication Rights in a Digital Age Programme. The programme will support civil society organizations around the world working to advance digital media literacy and the use of open source...

25 Mar 2020 WACC to help migrants exercise their communication rights

Posted at 13:27h in Communication Rights, Migrant voices, News

WACC announces the launch of a new programmatic focus as part of our efforts to promote communication for all. The new Communication Rights and Migration Programme seeks to enable migrants and host communities to access vital information, promote intercultural dialogue, challenge discrimination, and advance a rights-based narrative of migration. In 2020/2021,...

19 Mar 2020 Communication and community in times of isolation

Posted at 13:23h in Communication Rights, News

WACC’s response to the ongoing situation regarding COVID-19 For our common good, we need to use and promote technologies to unite people and communities who are divided by adversity. When the coronavirus (COVID-19) is raising physical and psychological barriers and as people and communities are experiencing various...

17 Mar 2020 WACC, SIGNIS postpone European ecumenical TV festival amid coronavirus pandemic

Posted at 13:16h in Cinema, News

The 20th European Festival of Religious TV and Online Programmes will not go ahead as scheduled this June in Helsinki, Finland. The postponement follows a wave of event cancellations worldwide due to the novel coronavirus Covid-19, which has affected more than 140 countries, including Finland. The festival, which was...

08 Mar 2020 25 years after Beijing Declaration, ‘we still don’t have an equal world’: UN report

Posted at 16:14h in Calls for Action, Gender, Media and Gender Monitor, News

While life today is better for a 15-year-old girl in a developing world, she will nonetheless have to keep fighting against tremendous odds because progress made in the last 25 years “though important, has been incremental, uneven and insufficient,” says a new report launched by UN Women...

06 Mar 2020 Gender and media alliances urge Commission on Status of Women to postpone adoption of Political Declaration

Posted at 16:05h in Gender, News, Statements and Calls to Action, Statements and Calls to Action

Inclusion of key stakeholders in text, democratic deliberation’ needed A group of women’s rights organizations and non-governmental organizations is urging the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to postpone the adoption of the final draft version of its Political Declaration. The group is concerned that it “omits...