African Freedom of Expression Exchange deplores the current state of attacks, arrests, detentions, incarcerations and harassment meted out to professional journalists in many countries on the continent....
A number of media and social-justice organizations such as Amnesty International, Access and Free Press, are dedicating Feb. 11 as “The Day We Fight Back” against mass surveillance...
African media can and should do more to tell the story of climate change, according to a new UNESCO publication....
Civil society organisations around the world call on United Nations to put government accountability and independent media at the centre of a new framework for global development.
...“True Harmony,” a Christian song of peace, has acquired a new life in the South Pacific, to communicate its message to the world. The anthem came from a...
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, executive director of FemLINKPACIFIC in Fiji and a WACC partner, has been awarded the 2014 Women of Distinction Award from the NGO-Committee on the Status...
This year's World Radio Day is very important for WACC partner FemLINKpacific, which is using it to launch a series of events leading up to the 10th anniversary...
The WACC-coordinated fifth Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), scheduled for 2015, will inaugurate the concept of “International GMMP Ambassadors,” who will represent the regions in which the GMMP...
The list of small projects being supported by WACC in 2014 includes a Brazilian group that challenges racist and sexist stereotypes in that country’s media, a center in Zimbabwe that...
Concerned citizens protesting in Cairo, Egypt. Photo: MEI. WACC deplores the escalating violence taking place in Egypt and the deteriorating political situation. It calls on media practitioners inside and outside the country...
Global communication organizations call for freedom of media in post-conflict Syria.
...Greater freedom and internet access for citizens has been met with increased state control, systematic surveillance and censorship of the web....
The latest version of Take Back the Tech! campaign is evaluating its 16 Days of Activism to End Gender Violence. The campaign, which ran from Nov. 25-Dec. 10,...
Media outlets face retribution if they appear to take sides....
Time to come clean about the politicization of science....
Global e-waste could reach annual levels of 65.4 million tonnes by 2017....
Supporting professional formation for the Church's ministry in communications....
Survey finds reportage of rural poverty issues by Nigerian print media is relatively low.
...The Toronto-based IFEX network notes in a website story that “there are far too many countries where news and content providers constantly face a very special and formidable form of...
The Rev. Romi Márcia Bencke, general secretary of the National Council of Christian Churches of Brazil (CONIC), was honoured on Dec. 12 with a Human Rights Award presented to her...
Article 19 joins with four NGOs to argue that access to information is central to the post-2015 development agenda....
Japan’s legislature, the Diet, on Dec. 6 passed a highly contentious state secrets protection bill into law, despite protests from the opposition, the public and church leaders....
Panel reviews communication rights, community radio and role of journalists in advancing social and economic justice.
International human rights organisation ARTICLE 19 publishes report on freedom of expression and ICTs.
...Tireless ambassador for the role of film in society and for advancing human values and human rights....
The latest issue of WACC's international journal Media Development (4/2013) takes the theme "Building alliances for gender and media"....
Publication examines importance of media and entertainment in advancing a nonkilling world...
With bright colours and many photos, WACC’s new web site is vibrant and dynamic....
In the spirit of promoting gender equality in the Media, UNESCO and partners have launched a video calling for action on gender equality and women's empowerment in and through media...