08 May 2023 New WACC Global Board to hold first meeting
The new WACC UK Board of Directors is meeting in London on 10–12 May to receive reports on WACC’s program, finances, membership, and outreach and to rearticulate the vision and...
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05 May 2023 Seminar to explore pathways to rights-based tech ecosystem
The seminar “Development and Digital Access: Are we fostering equitable pathways to inclusion?“ on 11 May will explore how organizations and individuals committed to justice, democratic participation, and equality can...
04 May 2023 WACC launches Voices of the Amazon to equip local communities to shape climate policy
WACC has launched Voices of the Amazon, a multi-year project in partnership with the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) that will use community radio to enable grassroots communities...
01 May 2023 WACC Europe elects new leadership
WACC’s regional association in Europe unanimously elected new leaders, reflected on accomplishments since its last assembly in 2019, and thanked outgoing president Stephen Brown at its assembly on 26 April. Elected...
27 Apr 2023 WACC Europe considers agenda for the future to promote digital justice
“AI, AI, AI!” — Is this how you feel about artificial intelligence? An online seminar on April 26 hosted by the WACC regional association in Europe offered rich perspectives for those...
27 Apr 2023 Global Media Monitoring Project tools can address gender blind spots in news industry
A webinar on 25 April took a closer look at how to address two significant gender blind spots in the news industry: the lack of women of colour in leadership...
14 Apr 2023 WACC’s 2022 Annual Report highlights collective work to advance communication rights
WACC’s 2022 Annual Report “Building a Network and a Movement for Social Justice” highlights the organization’s vital, collective work throughout the globe to remove obstacles to communication for all. The newly...
06 Apr 2023 Grassroots voices needed for impactful civil society statements
If communication rights advocates want to use statements to drive social change, they need to be clear about their motivations and build coalitions that include grassroots voices, panelists concluded at...
31 Mar 2023 WACC Global appoints Juha Rajamäki as treasurer
The WACC Board of Directors has appointed Juha Rajamäki, a TV journalist and producer from Finland, as treasurer of the global association for communication rights for the time period 2023–2027....
30 Mar 2023 Launch of Digital Democracy Initiative for digital tech that supports human rights, democracy
The Digital Democracy Initiative (DDI) was launched on 28 March with a virtual event that explored how to amplify the voice of civil society in the digital age. The DDI takes...
28 Mar 2023 WACC Caribbean elects new board, sets thematic directions
At its General Assembly on 11 and 18 March 2023, the WACC Caribbean regional association selected new leadership and discussed areas of communication rights engagement for the next four years. Regional...
27 Mar 2023 WACC online discussion to explore how statements could drive social change
The WACC online discussion “From Words to Action: Statements on Communication for a Better Future” on 3 April will give members and partners the opportunity to consider how statements on...
23 Mar 2023 Embert Charles re-elected as WACC president
The membership of WACC has elected Embert Charles, a communications and media specialist from the West Indies, to a second two-year term as president of the global association for communication...
17 Mar 2023 Using new technologies to create safe and diverse media spaces
Women journalists and activists can use the internet to their advantage and find support to help them stay safer online, concluded speakers at “Safe Zone: Creating media space for diverse...
10 Mar 2023 Education, advocacy, and action key to advancing gender justice in digital spaces governed by algorithms
Churches and civil society group must focus on questions of power around artificial intelligence (AI)—be that tech, political, gender, or racial power—and examine who is being included and excluded, concluded...
08 Mar 2023 WACC events at global women’s forum to focus on women’s digital communication rights
WACC is spotlighting gender-just online media and gender justice in our increasingly digitalized world at the NGO CSW67 Forum on 6–17 March 2023. The NGO platform enables civil society to...
07 Mar 2023 Experts say regulation of legacy, digital media needed to advance women’s communication rights
Regulation of legacy media and digital platforms is crucial to ensure accountability for human rights for all and specifically for the right to freedom of expression for women and girls,...
23 Feb 2023 Latest Media Development takes communications rights look at modern-day utopias
Two contemporary “utopias” come under communication rights scrutiny in the latest Media Development, WACC’s quarterly journal. The issue “Utopia or Bust: In Search of Inclusion” examines the Metaverse, which seeks to...
21 Feb 2023 European television festival to explore the face of religious broadcasting
The European Festival for Religious Television and Online Programmes is back after a Covid-enforced pause. TV producers and enthusiasts from across Europe are invited to participate in the 20th edition of the...
17 Feb 2023 WACC North America receives media monitoring report, elects new board
At its 2023 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 15 February, the WACC North America regional association received initial findings from the Migrant Media Monitoring Project (MMMP) conducted in May of...
02 Feb 2023 General public can drive more just media coverage of migration
Members of the public need to hold media accountable for coverage about migrants and refugees, and advocate for balanced, representative reporting, WACC Program Manager Sarah Macharia said at the annual...
20 Jan 2023 Democratic society needs women in the media, concludes Al Jazeera panel
Women are underrepresented in the news, and democracy — as well as individual citizens — suffers as a result, a panel of gender and media experts stressed during the episode...
17 Jan 2023 WACC expert to speak on Al Jazeera panel on media diversity
An upcoming Al Jazeera English broadcast on the gender gap in media will feature Sarah Macharia, WACC program manager for Gender and Communication and global coordinator of the Global Media...
11 Jan 2023 WACC signs letter highlighting impact of bans on Afghan women’s human rights
WACC has joined with Religions for Peace and over 150 individuals and international organizations to express concern about the human rights impact of further restrictions on the lives of Afghan...
03 Jan 2023 Building the communications rights nest in 2023
Recent events had made it difficult to look forward, WACC President Embert Charles admitted when sitting down at the end of 2022 to pen a New Year’s message to those...
09 Dec 2022 Webinar breaks ground for ecumenical gender and media observatory
An introductory webinar to social media monitoring on 8 December took the first steps towards establishing a global, ecumenical observatory to gather evidence on gender-based violence content in the media...
06 Dec 2022 WACC panel at SBCC Summit to feature communication for climate justice initiatives
A WACC panel on 8 December at the Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit in Marrakech, Morocco, will highlight the crucial intersection between communication rights, localization, and climate justice. Organized...
02 Dec 2022 Webinar to offer practical tools to root out gender cyberviolence
The webinar “Rooting out gender cyberviolence: An introduction to social media monitoring” on 8 December will give WACC members and partners the opportunity to take action against the harmful —...
30 Nov 2022 Promoting Creole to challenge discrimination in the Caribbean
Grassroots movements are using research and documentation of the Creole language and culture to challenge historical and contemporary prejudice in the Caribbean region, WACC President Embert Charles told participants at...
25 Nov 2022 WACC calls for action to end digital violence against women
As the Global 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence launch for 2022 on 25 November, WACC is calling on its members and partners to take action to end digital...