Freedom. Democracy. Justice. These are a few concepts that many migrants feel are alien once they land in a country that is not their own. A feeling of insecurity sets in as they navigate their immediate surroundings while trying to understand and adjust...
A quarter of a century ago, in an essay published in the journalReligion and Society, Michael Traber wrote:
“Communication, both public and private, is a fundamental human right and, as such, the precondition for other human rights, because communication is intimately bound up with what...
In 2015 I was lucky enough to be chosen by WACC to evaluate its small-grants programme, under which development partners all over the world are annually selected for grants to implement communication-related projects and to build their capacities in this area....
My work addresses communication rights in the context of the widespread growth and expansion of the Internet. In particular, I focus on privacy rights in the context of Internet-based data collection and analysis (big data analytics)....
On January 20, 2015, the town of Santa Eulalia Huehuetenango, Guatemala became the centre of an unfortunate and too common violent sequence of events targeting community journalists. The local community radio station Radio Snuq Jolom Konob was reporting about the national police terrorizing...
Is it possible to create an open community space so that people can freely speak and contribute to post-war reconciliation? This was the question a group of young people started to think about in community radio in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the late...
Las redes sociales se han evidenciado como instrumentos idóneos para acompañar procesos de reivindicación de derechos, dando paso a un creciente movimiento de ciudadanas y ciudadanos que se han empoderado de esas plataformas para lograr adhesiones, movilizar y mantener informada a la población...
Les femmes représentent la majorité de la population béninoise, mais elles sont les moins connues. Elles drainent la foule lors des grands regroupements à la place publique, mais elles n’ont pas droit à la parole. Elles détiennent le nerf de l’économie nationale pour...
A good entry point for newcomers to the idea of communication rights is to bounce it against the idea of freedom of expression.
Most people believe they understand the basic of freedom of expression. It also ranks among the sacrosanct foundation stones of all human rights....
Poder contar con un buen margen de confianza permite que la comunicación llegue a ser aceptada como creíble. La confianza hace más laxos los requerimientos de verosimilitud, los que no siempre se requieren de manera explícita sino más bien se dan por sentados....
