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26 Feb 2024 MD 2024/1 Editorial

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Over one hundred years of sci-fi books, magazines, TV programmes, and films have made it easier (as Dr Who fans will testify) to believe that aliens from outer space are intent on taking over Earth. In 1938, courtesy of a notorious radio broadcast of “The...

A boy with a toy gun in the Al-Shalti refugee camp in Gaza. Residents of the Palestinian territory are still reeling from the death and destruction of the 2014 war with Israel, and the continuing siege of the seaside territory by the Israeli military. Copyright Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth

02 Jan 2024 What price compassionate communication?

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There is no escaping the bitter irony of celebrating a child born in Bethlehem – north-east of the Gaza Strip – and the sickening deaths of more than 6,600 children in Gaza alone since 7 October 2023. Thousands more are missing under the rubble. The...

A woman holds a sign in the form of a hand with a pointing finger that reads 'Want to know the truth' during a rally to Kick Big Polluters Out of the talks at the United Nations climate summit COP28.

29 Dec 2023 WACC president urges renewed efforts to tackle communication rights challenges in 2024

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WACC President Embert Charles is inviting communication rights advocates to renew efforts to advance communication for all in the coming year. Communication rights challenges “became so stark” in 2023, he says in a New Year’s message to WACC members and partners. The past year saw...

27 Nov 2023 Celebrating the Universal Declaration, condemning attacks on media freedom

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On December 10, 2023 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) will be 75 years old. As a benchmark of democracy, we rightly celebrate observance of its Article 19 on freedom of opinion and expression and the right to seek, receive, and impart information. Often...

18 Nov 2022 New Media Development issue offers signposts for communication rights

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The latest issue of Media Development, WACC’s quarterly journal, brings together touchstone documents on communication for a better future from over nearly two decades. The documents reveal a clear vision for the democratization of communication that has not yet been attained—and thus are a call...

15 Nov 2022 MD 2022/4 Editorial

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Unfulfilled expectations dating back over fifty years to the evocative call for a New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) have spiralled into a digital age, in which political, economic, social and cultural life is being transformed by technologies that are challenging long-held notions of...

20 Nov 2021 Public Space in the Digital Sphere

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11 May 2021 Media Development 2021-2 online magazine and pdf

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Media Development 2021-2 Revisiting MacBride: Communicative Justice Today If the 1980s MacBride Commission were to sit today, what might its members have to say about inclusion, exclusion, and social progress in a world taken over by digital technologies of all kinds? Experts contribute to the...

11 May 2021 MD 2021-2 Editorial

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By Philip Lee Those familiar with the history of the 1970s New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the 1980s communication rights movement will remember the name of Seán MacBride as the chairperson of the International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems, which...

18 Mar 2020 Media Development

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