WACCTalks
WACCTalks™ is a collection of short video clips on key themes related to communication rights. They are intended as discussion starters or as part of more in depth presentations. WACC’s aim is to highlight important aspects of global, regional and local debates.
Democracy and Communication in Hong Kong
Emily Lau
Politician calls for accountability and transparency in government and the media.
Communication and Gender in the Caribbean
Hilary Nicholson
Setting the scene for the particular concerns facing women in the Caribbean.
Le droit à la communication
au Haïti
Stéphanie Rousseau
Comment le droit à la communication pourrait aider à rendre les femmes plus fortes. Full screen version
Communication Rights in Practice
Mark Beach
Ensuring that ordinary people have a voice and are being heard.
Memory in the Caribbean
Christopher Laird
On the need not to lose the Caribbean’s sense of cultural memory.
Lubombo Community Multimedia Centre, Swaziland
Ambrose Zwane
The struggle to establish a framework for community radio stations that responds to the needs of local communities.
Wawatay Community Radio Station, Canada
Bill Morris and Kenina Kakekayash
Community radio is crucial to the lives and livelihoods of First Nations people living in remote parts of Canada.
La comunicación es un derecho humano
Alma Montoya
En Colombia
El derecho a la salud : Periodismo ciudadano por un servicio equitable
David Morales Alba
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Do women matter?
Jennifer Lee
Only 24% of women appear in news stories around the world. Why does this matter and what is being done about it?
What are communication rights?
Cees Hamelink
How communication rights underpin all other human rights and why conversation and dialogue are essential to society’s well-being.
Why do communication rights matter?
Pradip Thomas
How communication rights in practice are the bedrock of genuine participatory development and social change at the grassroots.
Media and gender justice
Joanne Sandler
Interviewed at WACC’s Congress 2008, UNIFEM’s former Deputy Executive Director-Program called for media that promote gender justice.
Why gender and media justice matter
Margaret Gallagher
One of the pioneers of WACC’s Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) speaks about the exclusion of women from the news media.
Communicating for peace
Jake Lynch
One of the founders of the theory and practice of peace journalism elaborates its crucial role in understanding conflict reporting.
Women’s voices in the Pacific
Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls
How women are learning to use communication technologies to tackle gender-based violence, security issues, and climate change in the Pacific.
Aboriginal communication rights
Doreen Spence
Why the communication rights of Indigenous and Aboriginal peoples are equally important as those of other people.
Los derechos a la comunicación
Daniel Favaro
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Peace journalism and violence
Cees Hamelink
Peace journalism has a role to play in examining how people justify acts of violence that impact and disrupt communities everywhere.
Communication rights in Bolivia
José Luis Aguirre Alvis
How strengthening the communication rights of Indigenous people and people living with disabilities improves society as a whole.