Karuara, People of the River, directed by Stephanie Boyd and Miguel Araoz Cartagena, has been given the WACC–SIGNIS Human Rights Award 2025. This feature-length documentary gives voice to an Indigenous community in Peru’s northern Amazon region whose survival depends not just on climate justice, but...
WACC’s Annual Report 2024 “Enabling a Future for All” brings to life the organization’s collective work last year to advocate for digital justice, gender justice, and climate justice, and to put people at the center of digital societies. “WACC has added its voice to the...
In September 2024, the United Nations adopted a “Global Digital Compact“ at the Summit of the Future in New York City. The Compact is a non-binding international agreement that seeks to foster collaboration between governments, technology companies, the technical community, and civil society to help...
Media Development 2025-1 Climate Justice and Digital Inclusion Climate justice is an existential threat that demands concerted action at many different levels. It is vital for civil society to be seen and heard in public where climate-related issues affecting human rights and justice are under...
The international humanitarian organization Concern Worldwide says that, “Climate justice is more than a concept. It’s a movement to recognize that the effects of climate change are not felt equally – and that it’s usually those who have done the least to cause climate change...
Pie Mabanta-Fenomeno Amid the lush and vibrant landscape of the Philippines, where natural resources abound and the scenery become a perfect background for heartfelt narratives, one story is often overlooked: the story of its marginalized and indigenous peoples in the face of climate change. At...
WACC partners from Latin America are set to demonstrate the essential place of local voices exercising communication rights for climate justice as the United Nations Biodiversity Conference – COP 16 opens today in Cali, Colombia. Every two years the UN event gathers governments and other...
Some 25 of WACC’s grassroots partners in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East will explore the communication rights implications of the newly adopted United Nations Global Digital Compact and develop a joint plan of action for advocacy when they meet on 22–25 October in Kathmandu,...
WACC has received with sadness the announcement of the closing of ALC News, the pioneering ecumenical communication agency for Latin America and the Caribbean based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After 30 years of service to the ecumenical community, this innovative, full-service communication agency that published...
Football (soccer), the world’s most popular—and we would argue most beautiful—sport, has become a multi-million-dollar industry marked by astronomical salaries, stadiums that look like spaceships, and billion-dollar sponsorship and television deals. The sport is regulated by FIFA at the global level and groups like CONMEBOL...