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Syrian refugee man holds his young daughter wrapped in an emergency blanket and speaks into a mobile phone

23 May 2025 WACC Annual Report 2024 highlights collective work to enable a future for all

Posted at 18:26h in Climate Justice, Communication Rights, Digital Justice, Gender, Indigenous, Migrant voices, News 0 Comments

WACC’s Annual Report 2024 “Enabling a Future for All” brings to life the organization’s collective work last year to advocate for digital justice, gender justice, and climate justice, and to put people at the center of digital societies.“WACC has added its voice to the struggle...

12 May 2025 7th Global Media Monitoring Project takes pulse of gender in media worldwide

Posted at 16:02h in Gender, GMMP, GMMP 2025, News 0 Comments

Thousands of volunteers gathered evidence of representation and portrayal of women and men in the news in some 120 countries on 6 May during the 2025 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP).Held 30 years after the inaugural GMMP, the 2025 edition of monitoring was the seventh...

Zoom screenshot of WACC North America AGM

28 Mar 2025 WACC North America affirms focus on gender justice and migrant rights, elects board

Posted at 11:32h in Communication Rights, News, WACC North America 0 Comments

At its 2025 Annual General Meeting, WACC’s regional association in North America affirmed its commitments to furthering communication rights in the areas of gender justice, digital justice, and migrant rights, and held elections for its Regional Executive Committee. WACC North America (WACC-NA) president Susan Jackson Dowd...

Group picture outside of the 30-some participants in WACC's partner forum in Kathmandu, Nepal

19 Mar 2025 WACC partners outline pathways to social justice–oriented implementation of Global Digital Compact

Posted at 11:05h in Digital Justice, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

Will the United Nations Global Digital Compact (GDC) meets its aim of fostering an inclusive, open, safe, and secure digital future for all?Its success or failure hangs on how it is put into practice, say WACC and its partners, in a new implementation roadmap rooted...

10 Mar 2025 CSW69: WACC and partners to take stock of women’s communication rights 30 years post-Beijing

Posted at 17:18h in Gender, News 0 Comments

WACC and partner organizations will review progress towards global commitments to advance gender equality in and through the media and will propose guidelines for future action with an event during the NGO CSW Forum 69 taking place in New York City on 10–21 March.The Forum...

Group photo of participants at WACC Asia meeting in November 2024 where they made plans to revitalize regional work to promote communciation rights

16 Jan 2025 WACC Asia elects new board, plans renewal of regional work

Posted at 10:39h in Communication Rights, News, WACC Asia 0 Comments

WACC’s regional association in Asia is poised to renew its work to promote communication rights following a fruitful and engaging 3-day meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka, at the end of November.Participants outlined five areas of activity for WACC Asia moving forward:Addressing the denial of the...

Cover of Media Development 4/2024 with a round tabletop with a world map

19 Nov 2024 Latest Media Development focuses on global vision of digital justice

Posted at 13:54h in Communication Rights, Digital Justice, Digital Rights, News 0 Comments

“A Global Vision of Digital Justice,” the most recent issue of WACC’s journal Media Development, delves deeper into the question of how democratic and inclusive governance frameworks can be designed for today’s digital information society. The United Nations Summit of the Future in September 2024...

Words "voyeurism", "trolling", "sextortion", "hacking", "deep fakes", and "doxing" against background of data

06 Sep 2024 Initiative to stop online gender-based violence set to launch

Posted at 13:03h in Gender, News 0 Comments

WACC and the World Council of Churches (WCC) are combining networks and expertise to create an equal online space for all.Join the two global organizations on 12 September for the launch of a toolkit and social media monitoring initiative to stop tech-facilitated gender-based violence.The toolkit...

Green-colored graphic with "Gender Equality and Inclusion in Our Digital Future: A new gender deal for WSIS+20, 29 May, 17–17:45 CET" and portrait pictures of six panelists

28 May 2024 WACC session at WSIS+20 Forum to envision a gender-equal digital future

Posted at 10:11h in Digital Justice, Digital Rights, Gender, News, WSIS+20 0 Comments

With the aim to reimagine the digital landscape through a gender-just lens, WACC and the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) are organizing a session at the World Summit on the Information Society - WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event in Geneva. Themed "Gender Equality and Inclusion...

Handwritten sign that reads "women's rights are human rights"

12 Apr 2024 WACC welcomes Canadian action plan on gender equality as opportunity to advance communication for all

Posted at 12:15h in Gender, News 0 Comments

WACC welcomes the strong commitment to gender equality signalled by the Canadian government with its release of Foundations for Peace: Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security - 2023 to 2029. With its emphasis on the need for women’s inclusion and meaningful involvement in...