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31 Dec 2024 Our wishes for communication justice in 2025

Posted at 09:13h in Communication Rights, News, WACC Africa, WACC Asia, WACC Caribbean, WACC Europe, WACC Latin America, WACC North America 0 Comments

WACC President Embert Charles and officers of the Regional Executive Committees in six of WACC's eight regions share their greatest wish for communication justice in 2025. Watch WACC's New Year's message to hear the regional voices of Gregg Brekke, WACC North America Vice-President Sandra Clenem,...

Mosaic of images from WACC's work in 2024

20 Dec 2024 Christmas wishes from WACC

Posted at 19:04h in Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

The many voices of communication for all form a chorus advocating communicative justice in all regions of our world. May this song of peace, joy, and hope resound during the festive season and throughout the New Year. Very best wishes from the directors, partners, and staff...

11 Nov 2024 Standing up to tyranny, protecting press freedom

Posted at 08:00h in Comment, Communication Rights 0 Comments

The disastrous outcome of the US presidential election – for global peace, and within the USA for women’s rights, immigration, the environment, gun laws and LGBTQ+ rights – is also disastrous for press freedom. Misinformation and disinformation will become even more overt and officially sanctioned. Writing...

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06 Nov 2024 WACC urges ACT Alliance members to be attentive to issues of communicative justice

Posted at 18:02h in Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

WACC has urged ACT Alliance members to give greater attention to communicative justice as a key dimension of sustainable development and humanitarian response, highlighting in particular the need for more inclusive and democratic media ecosystems. A member of the global coalition of 152 faith-based organizations working...

About 18 men and women from the Indigenous Community Radio Network stand together with a banner in Nepalese.

11 Oct 2024 WACC partner forum to give communication rights response to UN Global Digital Compact

Posted at 12:24h in Communication Rights, Digital Justice, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

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,...

The Olympic rings with a pop pink, orange and blue filter

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 were...

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 and...

14 Jun 2024 Latest Media Development looks under the hood of the term “communication rights”

Posted at 09:10h in Communication Rights, Media Development, News 0 Comments

What do we mean by “communication rights”? In the most recent Media Development, contributors unpack their understanding of the term and in doing so underline the necessity of a rights-based approach to communication, regardless of the language used. “‘Communication rights’ … expands freedom of opinion and...

A boy with a toy gun in the Al-Shalti refugee camp in Gaza. Residents of the Palestinian territory are still reeling from the death and destruction of the 2014 war with Israel, and the continuing siege of the seaside territory by the Israeli military. Copyright Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth

02 Jan 2024 What price compassionate communication?

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

There is no escaping the bitter irony of celebrating a child born in Bethlehem – north-east of the Gaza Strip – and the sickening deaths of more than 6,600 children in Gaza alone since 7 October 2023. Thousands more are missing under the rubble. The UN...

A woman holds a sign in the form of a hand with a pointing finger that reads 'Want to know the truth' during a rally to Kick Big Polluters Out of the talks at the United Nations climate summit COP28.

29 Dec 2023 WACC president urges renewed efforts to tackle communication rights challenges in 2024

Posted at 16:38h in Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

WACC President Embert Charles is inviting communication rights advocates to renew efforts to advance communication for all in the coming year. Communication rights challenges “became so stark” in 2023, he says in a New Year’s message to WACC members and partners. The past year saw “exponential increases...