Statement by WACC General Secretary Philip Lee on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, October 17, 2020
“Acting together to achieve social and environmental justice for all” is vital...
Providing migrants and refugees a platform to share their concerns, challenges, and aspirations not only helps them, but also addresses xenophobia and helps build bridges with host communities, WACC partners told...
October 15, 2020 — Women from the Mé Phaa Indigenous community of San Miguel El Progreso, Mexico, have learned more about how they can address gender inequality through a series of workshops on community radio, leadership, and visual arts, as well...
A new report and resource kit to address hateful content online has been published by WACC Europe, the European region of the World Association for Christian Communication.
Titled “Breaking Down the...
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Women all over the world are celebrating the sixth instalment in 25 years of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP).
What is it? A series of extensive gender and media monitoring studies conducted every five years since 1995 by WACC Global, an international NGO that advocates communication rights in order to achieve social justice.
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WACC/GMMP Newsletter by waccglobal...
What can be done to counter hate speech on the internet and in social media at time when online intolerance is widespread, and threatens democratic debate in societies?
A webinar on...
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Since the emergence of the communication rights movements in the 1980s, activists have advanced a vision of the right to communicate as a highly political enterprise. The main idea at the heart of the movement has always been that democratizing media and communication is a way to transform power structures in favour of the public interest and of people and communities whose concerns and stories are rarely seen and heard.
Toronto — The Covid-19 pandemic did not put a damper on the 2020 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), Tuesday, Sept. 29, attracting thousands of volunteers from 145 countries worldwide.
GMMP 2020 is the...
Click here to show photos of volunteers who took part in the 2020 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP).
GMMP 2020 is the sixth in a series of extensive gender and media...