14 Feb 2014 Extraordinary General Meeting of WACC Members
Extraordinary General Meeting to be held at the head office of the Association (308 Main Street, Toronto M4C 4X7 Canada) on 18 March 2014 commencing at 14:00 local time....
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13 Feb 2014 New African network calls for protection of journalists
African Freedom of Expression Exchange deplores the current state of attacks, arrests, detentions, incarcerations and harassment meted out to professional journalists in many countries on the continent....
11 Feb 2014 Feb. 11 marks resistance to mass surveillance
A number of media and social-justice organizations such as Amnesty International, Access and Free Press, are dedicating Feb. 11 as “The Day We Fight Back” against mass surveillance of citizens by governments....
06 Feb 2014 Climate change guidebook for African journalists
African media can and should do more to tell the story of climate change, according to a new UNESCO publication....
06 Feb 2014 Good governance and independent media underpin meaningful development
Civil society organisations around the world call on United Nations to put government accountability and independent media at the centre of a new framework for global development.
...03 Feb 2014 Peace song re-released in South Pacific
“True Harmony,” a Christian song of peace, has acquired a new life in the South Pacific, to communicate its message to the world. The anthem came from a prayer composed in 1996 by Matt Wilson of Fiji, as that Pacific nation struggled to...
31 Jan 2014 Bhagwan Rolls cited as “woman of distinction”
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, executive director of FemLINKPACIFIC in Fiji and a WACC partner, has been awarded the 2014 Women of Distinction Award from the NGO-Committee on the Status of Women (CSW)/ New York....
30 Jan 2014 FemLINKpacific celebrates World Radio Day
This year's World Radio Day is very important for WACC partner FemLINKpacific, which is using it to launch a series of events leading up to the 10th anniversary of FemTALK 89FM....
29 Jan 2014 GMMP 2015 to have “ambassadors”
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....
28 Jan 2014 New projects to help people communicate
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...