Cirenia Celestino Ortega, Global Media Monitoring Project coordinator for Latin America, attended the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women and was a member of WACC’s delegation at the parallel NGO Forum. Lea en español The central theme of 70th session of the Commission...
WACC project partners from across Latin America and the Caribbean aim to further knowledge of how a rights-based approach to communication can respond to urgent challenges like digital power concentration and Big Tech alignment with populism, when they gather on 19–22 March in Quito, Ecuador. The...
With progress towards media gender parity on a plateau, women’s rights advocates are taking time to pause, reflect, and innovate. Gender equality in the global news media is at a crossroads 30 years after the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action, the 2025 Global Media...
A WACC-supported project is using podcasts and curated storytelling to raise awareness of the lived experience of migrant women and girls in Latin America and the need to recognize climate change as a driver of forced migration.Run by ALC Noticias, an ecumenical communications agency, the...
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...
WACC has received with sadness the announcement of the closing of ALC News, the pioneering ecumenical communication agency for Latin America and the Caribbean based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After 30 years of service to the ecumenical community, this innovative, full-service communication agency that published in...
A WACC-supported project is advancing community radio as a channel for Indigenous communities in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama to advocate for their rights. Run by the Estor Association for Integral Development (AEPDI), a Guatemalan organization supporting Indigenous social justice and development, the project...
To enable migrants to be seen and heard, we must ensure that they are at the center of our conversations, urged panelists from Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin America at WACC’s most recent Conversation Circle “Unheard Migrant Voices: Why Promoting Rights-Based Narratives on Migration...
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...
“History is not mute. However much they burn it, however much they break it, however much they lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Time past continues pulsating, alive, within time present, although time present doesn’t wish it or doesn’t know it.” Eduardo...