The quarterly journal Media Development in its new issue highlights social, economic and communications challenges affecting the populations of thousands of islands in the South Pacific.
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Open Society Foundations publishes new report investigating the forces affecting digital media and journalism in 56 countries worldwide....
To mark the International Day of Democracy on Sept. 15, 2014, WACC is calling on its worldwide network of members and partners to strengthen the voices of young people in the political, economic and social life of their countries.
September 13 marks seven years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
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A new “truly human-centered” approach to development should include “freedom of expression and media development,” according to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova.
...The Montréal World Film Festival’s Ecumenical Jury announced that it awarded its top prize to “Cape Nostalgia / Fushigi Na Misaki No Monoga,” directed by Izuru Naroshima of Japan.
A recent study of Palestinian media shows that women are vastly under-represented on both sides of the news report, as journalists and in the content.
...The Toronto-based IFEX network notes in a website story that the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) has been lobbying the U.N. to include access to information in the official Agenda for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
...Supporters of WACC are seeing the results of its global work advancing communication rights in the 2013 annual report
...WACC-Africa and project partners identified ways to advance communication rights and gender justice at a forum on Gender and Communication in Africa at War and in Peace, held Aug. 4-7 in Nairobi....
