WACC project partners from across Latin America will explore the fundamental role that communication rights play in building more just, sustainable societies when they meet on 18–21 October 2022 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Titled “Communication: Cornerstone of Social Justice,” the gathering will bring together some 30...
Participants at the 11th World Council of Churches (WCC) Assembly were introduced on September 7 to participatory media monitoring tools that they can use to design advocacy actions to help advance a gender-just and equal media environment during a workshop led by WACC leaders. WACC North...
Saying church and ecumenical communities "can and should strongly engage with media from a gender justice perspective," WACC Global presented a vision for an Ecumenical Gender and Media Observatory at the World Council of Churches (WCC) pre-assembly on Just Community of Women and Men in...
A panel of gender justice experts gathered in Vienna today underscored the need for a "whole of society approach" to address urgent challenges faced by women in exercising their right to freedom of expression in today's digital age: discrimination, prejudice, lack of access to information,...
WACC's Board of Directors has approved a new Strategic Plan for 2022-2026, intended as a foundation for its network worldwide "to take a leadership role that advances communication rights in a rapidly changing world." [See Spanish and French versions] The plan focuses on new program priorities, building...
