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 mission of the global organization for communication rights. The Directors will hear from each of...
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 released publication presents activities from the first year of WACC’s strategic plan for 2022–2026...15 Nov 2022 Communication for All: Sharing WACC’s Principles
World Association for Christian Communication WACC believes that communication plays a crucial role in building peace, security and a sense of identity as well as in promoting justice, mutual accountability and transparency. Communication, WACC believes, contributes to the common good. This conviction has led WACC...
18 May 2022 Latest WACC journal focuses on Canada’s Indigenous media
Saying that the world is at a critical juncture — with challenges posed by the climate crisis, divisiveness, and other social issues — Cree Elder Doreen Spence writes in the latest issue of Media Development, WACC’s international quarterly journal: “This is the time for humanity...
28 Apr 2022 WACC partners highlight digital challenges, opportunities for Latin America community media
On April 26, WACC partners from across Latin America participated in aknowledge sharing event organized by the Latin American Association for Radio Education (ALER) and the International Centre for Communication Research in Latin America (CIESPAL), both leading institutions in the struggle for communication rights in...
04 Apr 2022 Media Activism Against Extractivism
Social movements need to embrace participatory media practices to organize in their struggles against an extractivist economic model A hugely significant bill has been making its way through the Brazilian congress. According to Amazon Watch, Bill 191/2020 is a piece of legislation that “in addition...
14 Feb 2022 In what ways has the digital era changed the notion of public space?
Working Group An international working group prepared the following paper for the symposium on “Communication for Social Justice in the Digital Age”, which took place in Berlin and online September 13-15, 2021. It sets out an understanding of public space today, outlines what issues are...
24 Nov 2021 Media Development 2021/4 Editorial
By Philip Lee Towards the end of 2020, Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian newspaper, made a commitment to its readers and supporters: “The global climate crisis is the emergency of our times. Amid all the fear and sadness of 2020, it remains the overwhelming...