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16 Jul 2012 Ecumenical Jury prize goes to Armenian film

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{wacc location="Toronto, Canada"}{teaser}Armenian film about guilt, forgiveness and the hope of reconciliation receives prize at the Golden Apricot Film Festival.{/teaser}

“If Only Everyone”, directed by Natalia Belyauskene, received the prize Saturday at the closing ceremony of the ninth edition of...

06 Jul 2012 WACC calls for new project proposals

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{wacc location="Toronto, Canada"}{teaser}Communication partners are invited to submit Concept Notes for projects starting in early 2013. The deadline is 3 September 2012.{/teaser}

In the context of WACC’s new Strategic Plan 2012-2016, communication partners are invited to submit Concept Notes for projects starting...

03 Jul 2012 Social media and citizen journalism are powerful tools

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25 Jun 2012 Communication is a common good say participants at Rio+ 20

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{wacc location="Toronto, Canada"}{teaser}Communicators meeting in Rio declare communication a good that belongs to all.{/teaser} Civil society organizations (CSOs) and social movements attending Rio+20, the UN summit on sustainable development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20-22 June 2012, have called for greater attention to be given...

22 Jun 2012 Access to communication empowers local communities in Peru

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{wacc location="Toronto, Canada"}{teaser}Radio production skills empower Indigenous and Amazonian people to speak for themselves.{/teaser}

“We realised that the only means of communication, the only way to be able to say the things that happened to us, was the radio.” With...

06 Jun 2012 WACC photo competition 2012 makes no awards

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{wacc location="Toronto, Canada"} {teaser} For the second year running WACC has decided not to award any prizes in its annual photo competition.{/teaser}

For the second year running WACC has decided not to award any prizes in its annual photo competition.

The theme of...

25 May 2012 Call for Ecumenical movement to rethink communications

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{wacc location="Toronto, Canada"} {teaser}Story and text of the joint Busan Statement of 25 May 2012.{/teaser} Press release

The world of communication has changed so radically in the past twenty years that it is time for churches to rethink how they communicate concerns about injustice and conflict,...

14 May 2012 In memoriam Fr Pierre Babin OMI

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{wacc location="Toronto, Canada"}{teaser}WACC notes with great sadness the death of Fr Pierre Babin, a pioneer in electronic and digital media.{/teaser} Pierre Babin (1925-2012), who died in Lyons, France, 9 May, was a priest of the order of Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He dedicated his life to...

02 May 2012 WACC calls for code of ethics for citizen journalism

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20 Apr 2012 Tackling violence against women in Guatemala and Mexico

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{wacc location="Toronto, Canada"}{teaser}Women work together to eradicate feminicide and impunity{/teaser}

CEDEPCA (Guatemala) has recently concluded a three-year programme of activities aimed at combating violence against women in Guatemala and Mexico. Called “Actions against Feminicide and Impunity”, 16 training workshops were supported under...