19 Feb 2025 What is said, what is not said, and the danger in between
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...
21 Oct 2024 WACC partners to highlight key role of local voices at UN global biodiversity summit
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...
11 Oct 2024 WACC partner forum to give communication rights response to UN Global Digital Compact
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,...
03 Sep 2024 WACC laments closing of Latin America and Caribbean ecumenical communication agency
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...
15 Jul 2024 Football, free expression, and the defeat of fascism
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...
11 Jun 2024 Community media essential to protecting the Amazon, concludes new WACC publication
A new WACC-supported study underlines the centrality of community radio to bridge communication and information gaps that hinder local communities in the Amazon from actively participating in forming environmental policy. The publication, Voices of the Amazon: An assessment of communication and environmental needs of the...
19 Apr 2024 WACC issues Call for Projects
WACC, a non-governmental organization that builds on communication rights in order to promote social justice, today launched a Call for Projects for its 2024–2025 project cycle. The Call for Projects is aimed at civil society organizations in countries on the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) list...26 Feb 2024 Imagining immortality
Philip Lee Reflections on digital technologies and artificial intelligence, their potential to change the nature of being human, and the unintended consequences of a Promethean quest for scientific knowledge. In his book Irish Nocturnes, philosopher and poet Chris Arthur observes the unease with which human...