In WACC's 2021 Annual Report, Social Justice in an Age of Uncertainty, General Secretary Philip Lee underscores WACC's critical role in "strengthening the voices of people who are at risk of...
"Domestic workers are sick and tired of working round the clock, non-stop in a kafala system that is modern day slavery." This was one of the sentiments raised in Hear Us,...
Lebanese news headlines about migrant workers are "getting more negative," with clear biases detected "by word and tone," says a media monitoring report published as part of a WACC-supported project...
In 1985, following the hijacking of a Trans World Airlines flight by a Shi’ite Muslim group, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher accused the news media of providing the terrorists with...
The latest issue of Media Development, WACC's quarterly journal, features some of the reflections and ideas generated before and during the historic symposium, Communication for Social Justice in a Digital...
[Spanish] [French] [German] (Republished with permission from the WCC website)The WCC governing body on 14 February received “A New Communications Paper for the 21st Century: A vision of digital justice,”...
One of the foremost texts in English exploring the thorny subject of media ethics in a digital age is founded on the protonorms1 of truth, human dignity, and non-violence, while...
[caption id="attachment_42257" align="alignleft" width="190"] MD 2022/1[/caption] Media Development 2022-1 This issue of Media Development asks what do social justice and social injustice look like in the digital era, especially for marginalized people...
Ellen Ueberschär When did you discover your communication rights? Your right to get transparent and trustworthy information, your right to read the texts that are meaningful to you and to share...
By Dennis Smith Since time unremembered, humankind has used language, gesture, and other symbolic systems to create meaning in common. And from these distant beginnings to today’s social media platforms, competing...