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21 Apr 2020 Bangladesh: Community radio brings life-saving Covid-19 information to rural communities

Posted at 15:58h in Communication Rights, Covid-19, News 0 Comments

WACC is surveying its community media partners on their response to COVID-19 and their needs to help keep the communities they serve informed and safe. Community media need your help! Please donate to the Community Media Rapid Response Fund. What is Covid-19? How is it transmitted? What...

20 Apr 2020 To deny information is to deny human rights

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Even faced with COVID-19, despotic regimes will stop at nothing. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed its concern at some Middle Eastern governments taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to increase state censorship and to clamp down on the dissemination of news and information.

08 Apr 2020 Syrian refugees vulnerable in Covid-19 pandemic

Posted at 15:55h in Citizen Journalism, Communication Rights, Covid-19, News, Statements and Calls to Action, Statements and Calls to Action 0 Comments

08 Apr 2020 Communication Saves Lives: WACC Rapid Response Fund for Community Media

Posted at 13:38h in Communication Rights, Community Radio (2012-2016), News, Statements and Calls to Action, Statements and Calls to Action 0 Comments

In times of crisis, information saves lives. In the response to Covid-19, we see how vital it is to get accurate and trusted messages to people so that they know what they need to do and where they can get help when they need it. For many...

08 Apr 2020 Communication saves lives, strengthens solidarity

Posted at 13:33h in Communication Rights, News, Resources, Statements and Calls to Action, Statements and Calls to Action 0 Comments

The global Covid-19 pandemic has shown how vital it is to get accurate and trusted information to communities in languages and channels that they understand. It has also raised awareness of the opportunities - and rights-based challenges - of digital communication. WACC and its partners...

07 Apr 2020 Communication in local languages vital in crisis situations

Posted at 15:51h in Climate Justice, Communication Rights, Covid-19, News 0 Comments

As Pacific Island Governments work on a coordinated regional response to Covid-19, Tropical Cyclone Harold, which has already hit the Solomon Islands and bears down at category 5 level on Vanuatu, the region faces a stark reminder that climate-related disasters remain a major security threat. In...

03 Apr 2020 Indigenous community radio addresses critical gap in Covid-19 information

Posted at 15:42h in Communication Rights, Covid-19, News 0 Comments

19 Mar 2020 Communication and community in times of isolation

Posted at 13:23h in Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

WACC’s response to the ongoing situation regarding COVID-19 For our common good, we need to use and promote technologies to unite people and communities who are divided by adversity. When the coronavirus (COVID-19) is raising physical and psychological barriers and as people and communities are experiencing various...