03 Sep 2026 Symbolic and significant, the journey continues: Caribbean media, WACC, and the age of AI
Caribbean media organisations are approaching issues like AI with a deliberate regional lens, reflects WACC President Embert Charles. ...
29 Dec 2023 WACC president urges renewed efforts to tackle communication rights challenges in 2024
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...
07 Jun 2023 New Media Development issue looks at unfinished business of archival justice
Power is at play when it comes to the question of whose stories, both individual and collective, are preserved as public memory, says Editor Philip Lee in “Archival Justice: Unfinished Business,” the latest issue of Media Development. In his editorial Lee notes that “what is archived...
01 Jun 2023 WACC President calls for purposeful approach to communication for all in post-Covid era
President Embert Charles has urged the WACC Board to draw on the wisdom of maturity to promote the mission of communication for all in a post-pandemic world marked by diverse threats to human rights and just societies. “We are all living a second half of life...
23 Mar 2023 Embert Charles re-elected as WACC president
The membership of WACC has elected Embert Charles, a communications and media specialist from the West Indies, to a second two-year term as president of the global association for communication rights, for 2023-2027. Charles has been president of WACC Global since 2019. A native of Saint...
03 Jan 2023 Building the communications rights nest in 2023
Recent events had made it difficult to look forward, WACC President Embert Charles admitted when sitting down at the end of 2022 to pen a New Year’s message to those in the communication rights movement. He noted that, while the past year had seen the impact...
30 Nov 2022 Promoting Creole to challenge discrimination in the Caribbean
Grassroots movements are using research and documentation of the Creole language and culture to challenge historical and contemporary prejudice in the Caribbean region, WACC President Embert Charles told participants at the panel discussion “Archival Justice and Digital Collaborative Scholarship” on 29 November. Part of the Michael...
14 Sep 2021 ‘Reclaim democratic public communication spaces,’ WACC members, partners urge
WACC members and partners are calling for a movement to “reclaim democratic public communication spaces” in both the analogue and digital spheres, which would strengthen marginalized voices, guarantee the right of citizens to own and control their data, information, and knowledge, and uphold social justice,...
11 Oct 2019 WACC Board of Directors sets new priorities
Raising WACC’s profile as one of the key global players on gender and communication, and supporting critical applications of communication rights in new areas for today’s world, were priorities set by WACC’s newly appointed international Board of Directors at its...
26 Sep 2019 WACC president urges board, members to ‘get into the trenches again’
President Embert Charles has urged WACC’s new Board of Directors to roll up their sleeves to “reenergise our global movement, regroup and give a stronger voice to the regions.”...
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