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• WACC to help migrants exercise their communication rights

  

  A boy takes a selfie on a mobile phone as people gather around a fire inside a refugee…

  by Staff

  Posted March 25, 2020

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• Communication and community in times of isolation

  
  WACC’s response to the ongoing situation regarding COVID-19
  

  Posted March 19, 2020

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• WACC, SIGNIS postpone European ecumenical TV festival amid coronavirus pandemic 

  
  The 20th European Festival of Religious TV and Online Programmes will not go ahead as scheduled this June in Helsinki, Finland.  
  by Staff

  Posted March 17, 2020

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

  
  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 reportlaunched by UN Women March 8, International Women’s Day.
  Marites (Tess) Sison

  Posted March 11, 2020

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• UN commission recognizes need for balanced, fair representation of women in media

  
  WACC and its Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) network have welcomed the Commission on the Status of Women’s (CSW) approval of a Political Declaration that recognizes the need to eliminate gender stereotyping in the media.
  by Staff

  Posted March 10, 2020

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• Gender and media alliances urge Commission on Status of Women to postpone adoption of Political Declaration

  
  A group of women’s rights organizations and non-governmental organizations is urging the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to postpone the adoption of the final draft version of its Political Declaration. The group is concerned that it “omits a clear commitment to ending violence against women and sexual minorities in all spheres including the media offline and online,” and to “eliminating gender stereotyping in the media.”
  

  Posted March 06, 2020

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

  
  International Women’s Day (IWD) campaigns step up demands for the respect of women’s basic civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.
  by Staff

  Posted March 04, 2020

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• WACC steps up effort to respond to communication needs of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia

  

  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.

   

  by Staff

  Posted March 04, 2020

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• Gender equality: Some progress, but still a long way to go

  
  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.
  by Staff

  Posted March 03, 2020

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• Here’s how WACC helped to advance communication rights in 2019

  

  In 2019, a year marked by divisive politics, attacks on journalists, xenophobia, digital surveillance and harassment, and other threats to freedom of information and democracy, WACC Global continued to make a positive difference, especially among vulnerable people and communities around the world.

  
  by Staff

  Posted February 26, 2020

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