WACC and partners will champion a people-centred digital transformation at the World Summit on the Information Society +20 High-Level Event (WSIS+20) in Geneva on 7–11 July.With a seven-member delegation of staff and national partners from the Global South, and in collaboration with leading international civil...
Binding frameworks and renewed action are needed to advance gender justice in and through the media 30 years after United Nations member states adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, concluded a parallel event co-organized by WACC at the 69th session of the UN Commission on...
"Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now” is the theme of Human Rights Day, 10 December 2024. The focus is on people’s inalienable rights – regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, or other status – which must be guaranteed if the world is to have...
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...
In one part of the world, in Nairobi, Kenya, street vendors are doing booming business with “art” generated by artificial intelligence whose pricing matches or is even higher than real art. What constitutes “art” may be in the eyes of the beholder, but it seems no...
“Summit of the Future” sounds a bit like an Avengers movie. It is in fact a much-anticipated (and much-hyped) United Nations event on 22–23 September that aims to address the critical issues that are increasingly transforming lives – issues such as climate change, digital governance,...
How to regulate social media platforms effectively has become the quest of liberal and illiberal governments alike. The one to eradicate hate speech, and the other to control rebellious populations. The UN defines hate speech as “any kind of communication in speech, writing or behaviour, that...
With the aim to reimagine the digital landscape through a gender-just lens, WACC and the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) are organizing a session at the World Summit on the Information Society - WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event in Geneva. Themed "Gender Equality and Inclusion...
Civil society organizations need to be active participants in multi-stakeholder dialogues to find solutions to current global challenges and to shape a just digital future, WACC expert Sarah Macharia urged the United Nations Civil Society Conference last week in Nairobi. Recent analyses clearly show that the...
The event “Digital Communication Rights: Empowering women for the digital age” on 12 March at the NGO CSW Forum 68 offered civil society advocates, academics, and media professionals tools to advance a gender-just digital world. The Forum is a civil society gathering held annually in parallel...