Thirteen global and regional religious organizations and church-backed groups, including the European Region of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC Europe), have urged the European Union to provide immediate...
Posted at 00:00h
in
Comment,
Digital Rights
Once used mainly by teens and young millennials, Instagram continues to grow as one of the most popular social media platforms.
As of June 2018, Instagram had reached one billion monthly active users. More than 500 million use the platform daily.
Learning to respect and trust
If peace is a measure of a society’s ability to absorb shocks without falling or relapsing into conflict, then it must be based on trust, equality,...
Months-long Covid-19 lockdowns in Colombia have resulted in “an increase in xenophobia and rejection of the migrant,” according to WACC Global partners who are providing Venezuelan migrants and host communities with access to relevant information and communication...
William F. Fore, who has died aged 92, was President of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) from 1982 to 1990.
Graduating from Occidental College, he received his BD degree from Yale...
Posted at 00:00h
in
Comment
Free Press and four allies have filed a lawsuit (27 August 2020) challenging an order against social media companies.
The US District Court, Northern District of California, will hear a complaint against President Trump’s “Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship”, which targets online platforms with a range of official reprisals – including threats to their established legal immunity, investigation by government enforcement agencies, and the loss of significant government spending – for engaging in constitutionally protected speech, including combating misinformation online.
Posted at 09:41h
in
Gender,
GMMP 2020,
News
Sohailia Saywack, a recent graduate of Western University’s MA sociology program and current Master of Global Affairs candidate at the University of Toronto, has joined WACC as an international development intern.
“WACC Global’s mission of...
Posted at 00:00h
in
Comment
How can news organizations practice diversity and how can newsmakers contribute to overcoming division and exclusion?
A digital panel session discussed these questions as part of German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle’s...
A “Father Fire” around a tulpa (an Indigenous gathering) greeted communicators and members of Colombia’s Asociación de Cabildos Indigenas de Norte del Cauca (ACIN, Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern...
Posted at 00:00h
in
Comment
Media freedom is the freedom to protest.
“Hong Kong has long been respected as a powerful global economic hub and lively political and democratic space, supported by a proud and strong independent media. Yet the imposition of the new national security law… has undermined fundamental rights and freedom of expression… and severely damages Hong Kong’s autonomy,” says a statement published by the International Federation of Journalists on 19 August 2020. It was signed by eight leading organisations supporting media freedom.