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08 Apr 2020 Communication Saves Lives: WACC Rapid Response Fund for Community Media

Posted at 13:38h in Communication Rights, Community Radio (2012-2016), News, Statements and Calls to Action, Statements and Calls to Action 0 Comments

In times of crisis, information saves lives. In the response to Covid-19, we see how vital it is to get accurate and trusted messages to people so that they know what they need to do and where they can get help when they need it. For many...

03 Apr 2020 Indigenous community radio addresses critical gap in Covid-19 information

Posted at 15:42h in Communication Rights, Covid-19, News 0 Comments

WACC is surveying its community media partners on their response to COVID-19 and their needs to help keep the communities they serve informed and safe. Community media need your help! Please donate to the Community Media Rapid Response Fund. WACC Global’s grassroots partners in Ecuador and Nepal are actively responding...

31 Mar 2020 WACC announces support for digital justice

Posted at 13:30h in Communication Rights, Digital Rights, News 0 Comments

As part of its efforts to promote communication rights around the world, WACC is proud to announce the launch of its new Communication Rights in a Digital Age Programme. The programme will support civil society organizations around the world working to advance digital media literacy and the use of open source...

25 Mar 2020 WACC to help migrants exercise their communication rights

Posted at 13:27h in Communication Rights, Migrant voices, News 0 Comments

WACC announces the launch of a new programmatic focus as part of our efforts to promote communication for all. The new Communication Rights and Migration Programme seeks to enable migrants and host communities to access vital information, promote intercultural dialogue, challenge discrimination, and advance a rights-based narrative of migration. In 2020/2021,...

19 Mar 2020 Communication and community in times of isolation

Posted at 13:23h in Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

WACC’s response to the ongoing situation regarding COVID-19 For our common good, we need to use and promote technologies to unite people and communities who are divided by adversity. When the coronavirus (COVID-19) is raising physical and psychological barriers and as people and communities are experiencing various...

08 Mar 2020 25 years after Beijing Declaration, ‘we still don’t have an equal world’: UN report

Posted at 16:14h in Calls for Action, Gender, Media and Gender Monitor, News 0 Comments

While life today is better for a 15-year-old girl in a developing world, she will nonetheless have to keep fighting against tremendous odds because progress made in the last 25 years “though important, has been incremental, uneven and insufficient,” says a new report launched by UN Women...

04 Mar 2020 International Women’s Day 2020: Gender-balanced media for an equal world

Posted at 16:02h in Gender, News, Statements and Calls to Action, Statements and Calls to Action 0 Comments

International Women’s Day (IWD) campaigns step up demands for the respect of women’s basic civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. This year’s IWD, March 8, 2020, calls us to raise awareness against bias and take action for equality in order to forge a gender-equal world. WACC...

04 Mar 2020 WACC steps up effort to respond to communication needs of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia

Posted at 15:58h in Communication Rights, News 0 Comments

A project to establish “communication that brings us together” began with a mix of “great enthusiasm and uncertainty” over a year ago in Colombia, as the country grappled with the influx of an unprecedented number of Venezuelan migrants. Today, that project, “Among Neighbours: Network of Colombian...

03 Mar 2020 Gender equality: Some progress, but still a long way to go

Posted at 15:55h in Gender, Media Development, News 0 Comments

WACC Global’s quarterly journal, Media Development, has published its first issue of the year, which examines how women around the world are faring 25 years after the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and five years since the launch of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Published in time...

21 Feb 2020 Muellamués community broadcasters push for culture of peace, Indigenous rights, & environmental stewardship

Posted at 15:49h in Communication Rights, Indigenous 0 Comments

A project supported by WACC Global has trained more than 100 Indigenous broadcasters and members of the Indigenous community of Muellamués, Colombia, in producing radio programmes on peace, self-governance, gender equality, and human rights. The project was organized by the Fundación para la Promoción de la Cooperación Internacional...