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On March 8, International Women's Day (IWD), the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) and the World Council of Churches (WCC) hosted a gender and media roundtable which concluded with...
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The 50th anniversary celebrations of NGO CSW/NY, which organizes the civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) commence this month. The civil society forum...
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The war on Ukraine is a tragedy. It is matched by a war on trust as disinformation and lies are used to silence ordinary Russians. Despite the horrific situation, WACC...
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...
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"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...
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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...