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14 Jun 2024 WACC’s Annual Report 2023 spotlights work for communication justice for all

Posted at 13:48h in Climate Justice, Communication Rights, Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Gender, Indigenous, Migrant voices, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

WACC’s Annual Report 2023 “Communication Justice for All” showcases the organization’s collective work last year to speak up for and advance just, inclusive, and community-led communication worldwide.“WACC believes in communication that builds and shapes community, enhances participation, and promotes freedom. Communication that demands accountability, builds...

A girl reaches for a computer mouse in front of two women in headscarves sitting in front of a computer while a third woman in a headscarf points to the computer screen. All look intently at the screen

05 Jun 2024 WSIS+20 Forum session outlines recommendations for gender-just digital governance

Posted at 10:20h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Gender, News, WSIS+20 0 Comments

A New Gender Deal should be included as part of the outcomes of the 20-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20) if our digital future is to be an inclusive and empowering one for women and girls, panelists stressed at a...

20 Mar 2024 Keep gender at center of global digital governance, NGO CSW68 event urges

Posted at 13:19h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Gender, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

The event “Digital Communication Rights: Empowering women for the digital age” on 12 March at the NGO CSW Forum 68 offered civil society advocates, academics, and media professionals tools to advance a gender-just digital world. The Forum is a civil society gathering held annually in parallel...

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08 Mar 2024 CSW68: WACC and partners aim to empower women for the digital age

Posted at 18:02h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Gender, News 0 Comments

WACC and partner organizations are aiming to equip gender justice advocates to advance women’s digital communication rights with an event during the NGO CSW Forum 68 in New York on 11–24 March. The Forum is a civil society gathering held in parallel to the annual session...

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04 Jan 2024 What is gender-based online disinformation — and what can we do about it?

Posted at 17:02h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Event, Gender, News 0 Comments

At a recent workshop on digital gender justice organized by WACC and the World Council of Churches (WCC), Lucina Di Meco, co-founder of #ShePersisted, shared research on gendered disinformation and online abuse against women in politics. She also shared suggestions for action during her presentation, as...

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14 Dec 2023 Young leaders adopt media monitoring as key tool against gender cyberviolence

Posted at 18:18h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Gender, News 0 Comments

A dynamic cohort of young church leaders have committed to tackling tech-facilitated gender-based violence following a digital gender-justice workshop led by staff from WACC and the World Council of Churches on December 11–14 at the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey (Switzerland). Technology-facilitated gender-based violence, or TFGBV, is...

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10 Dec 2023 Workshop will help young people take action against online gender-based violence

Posted at 13:09h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Gender, News 0 Comments

A workshop being held 11–14 December is engaging young church leaders in preventing gender inequities and advocating for gender justice in social media and other online spaces. Together, participants in the event “Taking Action Against Online Sexual and Gender-Based Violence” will review community standards on social...

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24 Nov 2023 #NoExcuse: Join the 16 Days of Activism campaign and take action to #EndCyberGBV

Posted at 18:34h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Gender, News 1 Comment

Gender-based violence on and through digital communication technologies is arguably the most pervasive human rights violation on the Internet. It is clear that technology — once considered an agent for gender equality — has become a serious threat to women’s rights. Sexual harassment. Rape threats. Objectification....

16 Nov 2023 Call to re-strategize for GMMP 2025 to tackle new challenges of gender equality in the media

Posted at 11:18h in Gender, GMMP 2020, News 0 Comments

Advocacy must evolve and new partnerships be formed to address current challenges of gender equality in and through the media, WACC Gender and Communications Program Manager Sarah Macharia told an online gathering of gender and media experts in late October. The virtual round table “Women's Representation...

26 Jun 2023 Gender equality “moving backwards”

Posted at 08:00h in Comment, Gender 0 Comments

The headline in the Statista information bulletin leapt out at me. Highlighting a recent report from the World Economic Forum, it stated that based on current trends, it will take another 131 years to close the global gender gap, 30% higher than its 2020 prediction The...