30 May 2022 Language rights and digital justice
Some 7,100 languages are spoken in the world today, of which only some 400 are spoken by the great majority of the world’s people. Every language is a uniquely important way...
26 May 2022 ‘Beyond calling and messaging’: India project boosts digital literacy skills of rural women
About 4,700 rural women, youth, students, and members of marginalized communities in India will receive digital literacy and skills training as part of a WACC-supported project being implemented by local...
24 May 2022 ‘Nothing about migrants without migrants”: At UN event, WACC partners stress importance of communication rights
WACC and the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) on May 20 highlighted the need to provide migrants with life-saving, culturally-sensitive information as well as communication tools during a side...
18 May 2022 Latest WACC journal focuses on Canada’s Indigenous media
Saying that the world is at a critical juncture — with challenges posed by the climate crisis, divisiveness, and other social issues — Cree Elder Doreen Spence writes in the...
18 May 2022 Media Development 2022-2 online magazine and pdf
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18 May 2022 MD 2022/2 Editorial
It is indisputable – from archaeological evidence but also from mitochondrial DNA – that people had already crossed into what we now call North America some 22,000 to 25,000 years...
18 May 2022 Communication rights for Indigenous People: A call to action
[caption id="attachment_44636" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Doreen Spence (left) mentoring at the United Nations. Photo credit Beatrice Weyrich.[/caption] Doreen Spence Acknowledgement: I am from Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta. I would like to...
18 May 2022 Overcoming mistrust and mis-representation: The challenge for Canadian journalists
Marites N. Sison In 2015, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released the findings of its six-year investigation into the history and impacts of the country’s residential school system for Indigenous...
18 May 2022 Canada’s Act Respecting Indigenous Languages
Assembly of First Nations In Canada, Bill C-91, an Act Respecting Indigenous languages, became law on June 21, 2019. The legislation was co-developed by the Department of Canadian Heritage and the...
18 May 2022 An Indigenous peoples’ approach to climate justice
Deborah McGregor Climate change has been identified as the “defining issue of our time” by many of the world’s leading experts and the diagnosis of planetary health is dire. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy...
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