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....
African media can and should do more to tell the story of climate change, according to a new UNESCO publication....
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.
...“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...
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....
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....
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.
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