WACC’s Latin America region gathered for a member’s meeting on 20 March in the context of the 3rd Juntanza Festival for Communication from Our America. Lea en español The aim of the meeting was to rethink the regional association’s path and renew its leadership, who take on...
We see daily examples of pressures on press freedom in countries around the globe. Then there is a particularly chilling moment when such pressure becomes an overt threat from one of the oldest democracies in the world, in which freedom of speech is enshrined as...
WACC project partners from across Latin America and the Caribbean aim to further knowledge of how a rights-based approach to communication can respond to urgent challenges like digital power concentration and Big Tech alignment with populism, when they gather on 19–22 March in Quito, Ecuador. The...
Being seen and heard means having a voice in shaping your future and that of your community and society. In a world where too many are invisible and too many voices are silenced, may we help to let the light of inclusive, democratic, and empowering communication...
WACC General Secretary Philip Lee reports from the latest meeting of the CDAC Network, a global alliance of organisations working to ensure people can access safe, trustworthy information and communicate during crises. “Information in Crisis” was in focus at the recent public forum of the CDAC...
Revd Dr Albert van den Heuvel, who has died in Amsterdam, Netherlands, at the age of 93, was President of WACC 1996-2002. Van den Heuvel was present in 1975 at the merger of the “old” WACC founded in 1968 with the Agency for Christian Literature Development...
Amid escalating global clampdowns on civic space and ruthless legal attacks on journalists and the media, Trust Conference 2025 asked a pressing question: Is it too late to save democracy, which stands on free and independent media that hold the powerful to account and enable...
The "You Are Not Alone" project, led by Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) with support from WACC and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), continues to amplify migrant voices and to identify and address barriers to communication rights for migrants in the region...
Have you ever read through the agenda of a United Nations General Assembly? The 80th regular session of the General Assembly opens tomorrow, 9 September. Under the theme, “Better Together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights,” the provisional agenda has 174 main...
Visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is harrowing. It records, in photos, artifacts, quotes, and stories, the days and months following the dropping of the first atomic bomb on 6 August 1945. Intellectually, we all know the death and destruction was horrific. Coming face-to-face with eyewitness...