Civil society organizations need to be active participants in multi-stakeholder dialogues to find solutions to current global challenges and to shape a just digital future, WACC expert Sarah Macharia urged...
The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event to be held in Geneva 27-31 May 2024 will mark twenty years of progress made in the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit...
Media Development 2024-2 Weaving Communication in Solidarity Articles in this issue of Media Development underline the need to resist by every means possible the steady erosion of democratic values, of press freedom, and...
Ever since a right to communicate was imagined by Jean D’Arcy in 1969, the concept has been controversial. Like the right to memory, without which individuals and communities would be...
Cees J. Hamelink In a recent book on “Communication and Human Rights”, I propose that all discussions on communication rights, the right to communicate or the right to communication should be...
Nico Carpentier Power is pervasive, all-encompassing, and ultimately ungraspable. At the same time, power generates difference through a logic of privilege. Even though a distinction between “the powerless” and “the powerful”...
Pradip Ninan Thomas The ability to Voice, Access resources and technology, the strengthening of local capabilities within an enabling environment and being able to communicate through a language of one’s choice...
María Elena Hermosilla Son meses y días de calor intolerable para una chilena criada en el frío. Es el “calentamiento global”. En el litoral, los incendios forestales queman Viña del Mar...
Mathilde Kpalla Il y a plusieurs décennies, Jean d’Arcy a promu sans relâche le concept de droit à la communication dans les instances internationales. Depuis, de sérieux débats continuent sur la...
Sébastien Nègre La famille, les amis, l’école, le travail, les loisirs constituent autant d’espaces essentiels pour les interactions sociales des jeunes.1 Partout dans le monde, les médias et les réseaux sociaux...