At Festival Compartilhe, WACC partners from four Latin American countries described how climate disinformation lands in their territories – and launched a new WACC publication advocating for community communication to be funded as climate infrastructure.Climate disinformation is no longer mainly about denying that the climate...
A new WACC resource makes the vital link between climate justice and communication rights, outlining how the climate crisis is also a communication crisis that demands investment in community-led communication ecosystems.Filling the Infrastructure Gap: Why we need democratic communication and information to achieve climate justice...
Karuara, People of the River, directed by Stephanie Boyd and Miguel Araoz Cartagena, has been given the WACC–SIGNIS Human Rights Award 2025.This feature-length documentary gives voice to an Indigenous community in Peru’s northern Amazon region whose survival depends not just on climate justice, but also...
Indigenous activists in eight Latin American countries can better defend their lands by using more professional and secure methods to collect data and evidence, thanks to a project by WACC partner PAKKIRU, the Kichwa Nation in the Pastaza region of Ecuador.The School of Communication and...
A WACC-supported protect in Costa Rica is helping women Indigenous leaders of the Cabécar nation use digital technologies strategically to connect younger generations with their community's culture, knowledge, and language.“Cabécar young people influenced by Western culture are becoming disconnected from ancestral wisdom,” says Kemly Camacho,...
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...
Indigenous communication rights and community identity are being strengthened through a WACC-supported project in the provinces of Salta and Jujuy in northern Argentina. The Argentinian human rights organization Encuentro Solidario y Democrático is working with the network Mesa de Comunicación Popular e Indígena de Salta y...
Saying that the world is at a critical juncture — with challenges posed by the climate crisis, divisiveness, and other social issues — Cree Elder Doreen Spence writes in the latest issue of Media Development, WACC’s international quarterly journal: “This is the time for humanity...