As the Covid-19 pandemic stretches into its second year, and as new “variants of concern” continue to circulate worldwide, there are heightened concerns that Indigenous communities such as those in...
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Gender,
GMMP 2020,
News
Women’s voices are “still not more visible” across the European media landscape, and if they do get seen, heard, or read about they are still largely in stories that are...
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Comment,
Digital Rights
The swift takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban following the withdrawal of foreign forces has shocked and appalled human rights defenders.
It has led to wholesale urgent calls to assist Afghans...
Philip Lee is general secretary of WACC. In a Q and A first published by the World Council of Churches, he reflects on some of the questions that will be...
August 16, 2021
Contact person: GAMAG Chair, Aimée Vega Montiel
Email: aimeevegamx@yahoo.com.mx
The Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) is deeply concerned about the situation of women, media professionals, and women journalists...
News media in the Pacific Region saw significant improvements in their representation of women since 2015, with results from the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) showing a 19% increase...
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Comment
By targeting monuments that celebrate historic figures who actively contributed to institutional racism and the oppression of marginalised peoples, Black Lives Matter and others have implicitly questioned the way collective...
The latest issue of WACC’s Media Development magazine examines the concept of public sphere, its role in promoting democracy and political accountability, and why principles of human rights and social...
Media Development 2021-3
DEMOCRATIZING THE PUBLIC SPHERE
The “public sphere” is made up of overlapping influences, pressures, dominant and less dominant voices. It is also subject to technological change, marked most recently...
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The World Bank notes that the public sphere “is an ideal of good and accountable governance. Its requisites are free flows of information, free expression,...
