07 Sep 2026 From the bottom up: Rethinking climate communication
We need a new approach to climate communication – a bottom-up perspective that understands communication as a right. ...
06 Jan 2026 Notes on COP30: Time to pass the microphone
Steven Santiesteban, a WACC-supported community reporter at the most recent UN climate summit, realized during COP30 that the climate crisis is also a crisis of listening, a crisis that demands a paradigm shift in whose voices and knowledge are amplified. Leer en español The air in Belém...
11 Nov 2025 WACC community media partners at COP30 set to amplify local climate voices
A WACC-supported team of 11 community media reporters is on the ground at the United Nations climate change conference COP30. Their mission? To unpack why communication justice must be at the heart of climate justice.Led by our partners Latin American Network of Radio Education –...
21 Oct 2024 WACC partners to highlight key role of local voices at UN global biodiversity summit
WACC partners from Latin America are set to demonstrate the essential place of local voices exercising communication rights for climate justice as the United Nations Biodiversity Conference - COP 16 opens today in Cali, Colombia. Every two years the UN event gathers governments and other stakeholders...
11 Jun 2024 Community media essential to protecting the Amazon, concludes new WACC publication
A new WACC-supported study underlines the centrality of community radio to bridge communication and information gaps that hinder local communities in the Amazon from actively participating in forming environmental policy.The publication, Voices of the Amazon: An assessment of communication and environmental needs of the Brazilian,...
04 May 2023 WACC launches Voices of the Amazon to equip local communities to shape climate policy
WACC has launched Voices of the Amazon, a multi-year project in partnership with the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) that will use community radio to enable grassroots communities in the region to be active participants in developing environmental policy. [caption id="attachment_52954" align="alignleft" width="300"] La...
13 May 2022 WACC to co-host UN side event to share best practices for meeting communication needs of migrants
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) and the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) are hosting a side event with the civil society space at the upcoming International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) scheduled May 17-20, 2022, at the UN headquarters in New York City. The...
03 Nov 2021 Project makes a difference in Venezuelan migrants’ lives
Venezuelan migrants, who already face economic difficulties resulting from their migration to neighbouring countries like Colombia, are also experiencing a host of health issues, according to a study conducted by WACC partners Grupo Comunicarte, Fundacion Comunicacion Positiva and Fe Y Alegreria Venezuela Radio Institute. Migrants who often...
25 May 2021 Communication rights on wheels
Is it…a Popemobile? No, more like a Pressmobile created by Grupo Comunicarte, a longtime WACC project partner based in Colombia. As part of a migration project supported by WACC and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Grupo Comunicarte was supposed to establish a community media...
23 Apr 2021 WACC strengthens migrants’ community radio network in Colombia
In light of the many health and economic challenges affecting migrants everywhere, WACC is proud to announce its continued support for a network of community radio stations working to meet the information and communication needs of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia. Venezuelan migration represents the biggest...
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