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Digital Justice
The Internet is the world’s digital lifeline. For the approximately 5.6 billion people connected to the Internet (some 70% of the global population), access is essential.
The entire Internet cannot be...
In the bustling alleys of Mar Elias, a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon, a quiet revolution is unfolding.
For decades, the voices of Palestinian refugee women and girls, along with...
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GMMP 2025
A Beijing+30 reflection
Exactly 30 years ago today, hope for a new dawn for women and girls was palpable.
Governments and civil society that had gathered in Beijing for the Fourth UN...
The "You Are Not Alone" project, led by Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) with support from WACC and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), continues to amplify migrant...
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News
Three decades after governments pledged transformative change for women through the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, progress towards gender equality in and through the world news media continues to...
Have you ever read through the agenda of a United Nations General Assembly?
The 80th regular session of the General Assembly opens tomorrow, 9 September. Under the theme, “Better Together: 80...
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GMMP 2025,
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Who makes the news in 2025? What progress has been made towards gender equality in and through the media over the past three decades? What can be done to address...
Visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is harrowing. It records, in photos, artifacts, quotes, and stories, the days and months following the dropping of the first atomic bomb on 6...
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“Very hands-on and a great learning experience,” is how Esta Yee sums up her summer internship as a project and research assistance with WACC’s Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP).
Joining the...
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With “Artificial intelligence: Friend or foe?” WACC’s quarterly journal takes a communication rights lens to the digital technology that is re-shaping our world.Artificial intelligence is here to stay, notes Media...