WACC emphasized the vital link between communication rights and pressing issues such as climate justice, migrants’ rights, gender equality, freedom of expression, and media viability at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Lyon, France, last week. The event...
Power is at play when it comes to the question of whose stories, both individual and collective, are preserved as public memory, says Editor Philip Lee in “Archival Justice: Unfinished Business,” the latest issue of Media Development.In his editorial Lee notes that “what is archived...
The WACC ship has set a course for the future and that is to focus on building a transformative movement that helps shape government policies and actions “founded on human dignity, human rights, and democratic principles,” General Secretary Philip Lee told the organization’s Board of...
If communication rights advocates want to use statements to drive social change, they need to be clear about their motivations and build coalitions that include grassroots voices, panelists concluded at the WACC event “From Words to Action: Statements on Communication for a Better Future” on...
The WACC Board of Directors has appointed Juha Rajamäki, a TV journalist and producer from Finland, as treasurer of the global association for communication rights for the time period 2023–2027. He succeeds Stephen Brown, whose term comes to an end on May 30.A former president...
The Digital Democracy Initiative (DDI) was launched on 28 March with a virtual event that explored how to amplify the voice of civil society in the digital age. The DDI takes up the pledge of the Danish-led Tech for Democracy initiative “to make digital technologies work...
The WACC online discussion “From Words to Action: Statements on Communication for a Better Future” on 3 April will give members and partners the opportunity to consider how statements on communication could be used to drive social change.Everyone from civil society networks to intergovernmental forums...
The membership of WACC has elected Embert Charles, a communications and media specialist from the West Indies, to a second two-year term as president of the global association for communication rights, for 2023-2027. Charles has been president of WACC Global since 2019. A native of Saint...
Two contemporary “utopias” come under communication rights scrutiny in the latest Media Development, WACC’s quarterly journal. The issue “Utopia or Bust: In Search of Inclusion” examines the Metaverse, which seeks to combine multiple sources of information on one digital platform, and Latin America’s Pink Tide 2.0,...
WACC has joined with Religions for Peace and over 150 individuals and international organizations to express concern about the human rights impact of further restrictions on the lives of Afghan women and girls announced by the Taliban in December 2022.In an open letter to representatives...