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06 Aug 2024 Reclaiming the rings: Why Olympic broadcasting rights need a rethink

Posted at 12:28h in Comment, Communication Rights 0 Comments

The 2024 Summer Olympics – or the XXXIII Olympiad – are finally here! Whether you, or I, get to watch any of the games, livestreamed and in full, is a separate issue. Those of us old enough to remember will recall a time when the Olympics...

Indigenous men and women sitting at a table use mobile phones to complete a workshop exercise

01 Aug 2024 Project strengthens Indigenous community radio in Central America

Posted at 15:20h in Indigenous, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

A WACC-supported project is advancing community radio as a channel for Indigenous communities in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama to advocate for their rights. Run by the Estor Association for Integral Development (AEPDI), a Guatemalan organization supporting Indigenous social justice and development, the...

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30 Jul 2024 Digital literacy strengthens voice of Indigenous Soliga communities in India

Posted at 14:37h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

A WACC-supported project run by Ideosync Media Combine is enhancing digital inclusion of the Soliga Indigenous communities in the Biligiri Rangan Hills of southwestern India’s Karnataka state. The Soliga tribal communities, with 60,000 members, have faced decades of disenfranchisement. They have been advocating over the...

A football (soccer ball) crushes a swastika against a backdrop of newsprint

15 Jul 2024 Football, free expression, and the defeat of fascism

Posted at 00:01h in Comment, Communication Rights 0 Comments

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...