The Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) is accepting applications for Cardinal Foley Fund scholarships in graduate and postgraduate studies in (pastoral) communications - both in Europe/North America and the southern continents.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland said it is now accepting applications for its academic programmes in ecumenical studies, 2015-2016. The application deadline...
The Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) has called on U.N. member states to include strong provisions on gender, media and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in...
WACC has launched a section of its website featuring short video clips on key themes related to communication rights.
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Globethics.net has announced publication of a new book that examines how the world of digital technology is reshaping communications and the implications for society, culture and politics.
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Internet users from across the globe have created a crowdsourced vision for free expression online. The Our...
A new book by Lois M. Wilson titled “I Want to Be in That Number: Cool Saints I Have Known” was launched on 1 October...
The theme of the Deutsche Well Global Media Forum 2015 is "Media and foreign policy in the digital age". It will explore how the culture of politics is changing,...
Indigenous peoples are being heard in New York during a week of activism on climate change, native people’s rights and indigenous philanthropy.
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Faith groups are playing a significant role in communicating the need for action on climate change in the run-up to a massive planned demonstration, interfaith conference and U.N....
The quarterly journal Media Development in its new issue highlights social, economic and communications challenges affecting the...
Open Society Foundations publishes new report investigating the forces affecting digital media and journalism in 56 countries worldwide....
To mark the International Day of Democracy on Sept. 15, 2014, WACC is calling on its worldwide network of members and partners to strengthen the voices of young people in the...
September 13 marks seven years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
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A new “truly human-centered” approach to development should include “freedom of expression and media development,” according to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova.
...The Montréal World Film Festival’s Ecumenical Jury announced that it awarded its top prize to “Cape Nostalgia / Fushigi Na Misaki No Monoga,” directed by Izuru Naroshima of Japan.
A recent study of Palestinian media shows that women are vastly under-represented on both sides of the news report, as journalists and in the content.
...The Toronto-based IFEX network notes in a website story that the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) has been lobbying the U.N. to include access to information in the official Agenda for...
Supporters of WACC are seeing the results of its global work advancing communication rights in the 2013 annual report
...WACC-Africa and project partners identified ways to advance communication rights and gender justice at a forum on Gender and Communication in Africa at War and in Peace, held...
WACC Global Vice President Praxedis Bouwman has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the Academy of Ecumenical Indian Theology and Church Administration, which cited her “national and international inter-denominational...
As the U.S. debates the status of undocumented/unaccompanied migrant children at its southern border, the World Association for Christian Communication is stressing that their right to freedom of...
WACC has published a new “No-Nonsense Guide” that examines “citizen journalism and freedom of expression.”
...WACC partners with many different groups worldwide to promote communication rights by means of one-year-long initiatives under different programme areas....
Report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council paints a disturbing picture of intrusive technological surveillance.
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WACC has accepted an invitation from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) to join an advisory group preparing for the Read More
The UNESCO-initiated Global Alliance on Media & Gender (GAMAG ) has named WACC to its International Steering Committee, which will guide...
WACC has been accepted as a member of ACT Alliance, a coalition of more than 140 churches and affiliated organizations working together in 140 countries to create positive and...
The spring issue of the quarterly publication Media Development considers the art of storytelling in the context of church and of cinema.
A public presentation of the achievements of a WACC project on "Communication Rights and Marginalized People in Bolivia" took place in Toronto 23 June 2014.