The WACC-coordinated fifth Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), scheduled for 2015, will inaugurate the concept of “International GMMP Ambassadors,” who will represent the regions in which the GMMP is taking place....
The list of small projects being supported by WACC in 2014 includes a Brazilian group that challenges racist and sexist stereotypes in that country’s media, a center in Zimbabwe that empowers girls to use media to change attitudes toward child marriage, and a Tanzanian group...
Concerned citizens protesting in Cairo, Egypt. Photo: MEI. WACC deplores the escalating violence taking place in Egypt and the deteriorating political situation. It calls on media practitioners inside and outside the country to offer informed and balanced coverage and to work for a peaceful solution to the conflict. The...
Global communication organizations call for freedom of media in post-conflict Syria.
...Greater freedom and internet access for citizens has been met with increased state control, systematic surveillance and censorship of the web....
The latest version of Take Back the Tech! campaign is evaluating its 16 Days of Activism to End Gender Violence. The campaign, which ran from Nov. 25-Dec. 10, 2013, focused on how concepts of public and private affect information and communication technologies (ICTs)...
Media outlets face retribution if they appear to take sides....
Time to come clean about the politicization of science....
Global e-waste could reach annual levels of 65.4 million tonnes by 2017....
