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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...

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22 Nov 2023 WACC Latin America joins regional call to protect and promote Indigenous community media

Posted at 17:08h in Indigenous, News, WACC Latin America 0 Comments

WACC’s Latin America region has joined with other regional communication networks in calling on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to take concrete action to ensure stronger promotion of Indigenous communication rights. An autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS), the IACHR is...

An Indigenous man speaks at a podium at a press conference at the Guatemalan Congress. Ten Indigenous people stand in a semi-circle behind him.

27 Jul 2023 Project to support Indigenous peoples’ right to freedom of expression in Guatemala

Posted at 09:45h in Indigenous, News, One Year Projects 0 Comments

A WACC project is backing efforts by the Guatemalan rights organization Asociacion Ixchel to secure Indigenous peoples’ right to freedom of expression, participation in cultural life, and equality before the law through legally sanctioned radio broadcasting. In the peace agreement that brought an end to civil...

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25 Oct 2022 Strengthening women and communities: challenges for communication in Latin America

Posted at 15:47h in News 0 Comments

The work of WACC regional partners strengthens the right to communicate of peoples in different contexts and helps restore their autonomy and human dignity....

15 Jun 2022 Project enhances broadcasting capacity of Indigenous community radio in Honduras, Guatemala

Posted at 14:15h in News 0 Comments

Seventy-one Indigenous communicators from 17 community radio stations in Honduras and Guatemala have received extensive training on how to develop new content about issues affecting remote communities as part of a project supported by WACC and Cultural Survival, a US-based NGO. The project also provided specialized...

19 Nov 2021 Women appear more in news about crime, violence in Latin America

Posted at 10:19h in Communication Rights, Gender, GMMP 2020, News 0 Comments

A “worrying” situation captured by Latin American countries which took part in the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is the rise in the representation of women in the news as victims of violence, criminality and femicide, according to the Latin America regional report released...

01 Nov 2021 Guatemala: Reclaiming Mayan knowledge to address climate change

Posted at 08:55h in Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

WACC is supporting a project in Guatemala that seeks to document and popularize ancestral Mayan ecological knowledge for climate change resilience and mitigation. Guatemala, which has been experiencing extreme weather conditions ranging from severe droughts to devastating floods, has been ranked among countries most vulnerable to...

12 May 2020 Guatemala’s Ixil people launch their own Indigenous community radio

Posted at 10:17h in Citizen Journalism, Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

In 2016, the Asociación de Grupo de Mujeres Tejedoras Ixiles Q'imb'al , a women-led civil society organization from Guatemala’s Ixil region, listened to the desire of their Indigenous community members to have a community radio that would “publicize the value of respect for our culture.”

11 Feb 2020 Community radio promotes Indigenous rights in Abya Yala

Posted at 15:01h in Features 0 Comments

Communication is a human right and is a fundamental element for the exchange of knowledge and information, in pursuit of sustainable development for the people of Abya Yala. Knowledge makes us free and ignorance makes us slaves by denying our freedom of expression and the...