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WACC partner in Nigeria empowers social media users to challenge misogynistic narratives

Reclaiming the beautiful game – and communication – for the common good

WACC partner in Pakistan spotlights online misogyny, lays foundation for systemic change

Project in Nigeria reshapes national discourse on digital violence against women

AI everything – Except humanity

Latest Media Development proposes paths to other, more inclusive technological worlds

New WACC interns to support digital justice work, strengthen impact through tech

Digital Justice – The Good News

Why the church needs to be a conversation partner on AI

WACC | The hidden cost of AI: Digital colonialism and the Global South

Reclaiming digital technology to build a fairer, safer, and more inclusive world

WACC Latin America organizes for communication justice

WACC partners advance rights-based approach at landmark communication gathering in Latin America

The beginning of the end of the attention economy?

Digital justice symposium closes with joint commitment to action

Symposium on Our Common Digital Future begins

WACC symposium to inspire collaboration for digital justice future

Advocates at CSW70 urged to think outside the box to end gender violence in media

When a free press comes under fire, we all suffer

WACC partners to help strengthen communication rights movement in Latin America at regional gathering

CSW70 | Building an evidence-based agenda to end gender violence in the media

Data protection: Burden or obligation?

A cautionary tale of “The Russian Guy”: The gender AI divide, ethics, and regulation

WACC North America seeks truth and justice in authoritarian times

New Media Development looks at communication justice – climate justice nexus

We need digital justice in real time

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🧰 Toolkit: Stop digital violence against women

🔎 Register a group for social media monitoring

Spain takes a stand: Regulating Big Tech to protect children

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European TV festival to open up conversation on regional values, faith

Trust, civic engagement, and shared responsibility in the digital age

WACC Europe hears call for urgent change in who makes the news

COP30 | No climate justice without communication justice

How close are we to a people-centric, inclusive Information Society?

WACC Europe board convenes with focus on digital justice

Latest Media Development focuses on civil society foundation for digital governance

Subjugating news and information to partisan interests

Will you take 16 days to help stop tech-facilitated gender-based violence?

WACC Asia explores how technology and faith intersect in the digital age

#COP30 | Climate action requires truth

#COP30 | WACC community media partners to amplify local climate voices

#COP30 | Let’s not forget that climate change is a justice issue

Just Digital | Navigate wisely online and advocate effectively

What are the challenges and opportunities for media literacy in Asia?

Abuse of AI for disinformation and tech-facilitated gender-based violence

WACC | In memoriam Albert van den Heuvel (1932-2025)

Trust Conference 2025 – Upholding democratic freedoms in an autocratic age

New Just Digital module to mark start of global media literacy week

Learn about "Karuara, People of the River"

Comment | Shutting down the Internet subverts democracy

The Taliban must restore internet access across Afghanistan now

You Are Not Alone: Migrant-centered communication in Asia Pacific

Gender equality in media still just a dream

Reinventing multilateralism through communication rights

Register now: Launch of GMMP 2025 key findings

The importance of the right to memory

Digital justice demands collective action | WSIS+20

La justicia digital exige una ciudadanía activa | WSIS+20

Protect communication integrity in humanitarian contexts

Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe? | Media Development

In the face of genocide, no place for silence

No digital innovation without commitment to digital justice | WSIS+20

In memoriam George C. Conklin Jr. (1931-2025)

Digital justice must mean power, access & dignity for all | WSIS+20

US exit from UNESCO underscores need for civil society to step up

The power of being in the room | WSIS+20

Safeguarding Canada’s future through independent media

Communication is humanitarian aid | WSIS+20

Financing digital justice: Turning vision into reality

Centering People and Planet in the #WSIS+20 and beyond

Communication rights are foundational | WSIS+20

Leaders TalkX | WSIS+20

Communication is Humanitarian Aid | WSIS+20

WACC advocates for digital justice at WSIS+20

Meet the recipient of the WACC North America WSIS+20 scholarship

Beyond Connectivity – Advocating Community at WSIS+20

All the lies, distortions, and fake news fit to print

New WACC intern wants to help highlight voices of those otherwise unheard

New WACC publication offers guide for putting communication rights at heart of digital governance

Descargar "Un enfoque progresista y descolonial de los ecosistemas digitales"

Télécharger « Adopter une approche progressiste et décoloniale des écosystèmes numériques »

The wild west of AI regulation

Documentary "Karuara" wins WACC–SIGNIS Human Rights Award 2025

Communication justice must be at heart of decolonizing international development

Seizing the day for communication justice: Latest Media Development focuses on upcoming WSIS+20

Latin American Indigenous communities hone communication tools to protect way of life

Reflections from #CSW69: Women, diversity, and digital rights

Find out the essentials of digital justice in 2025 at WACC online event

Project shines light on stories of migrant women and girls in Latin America

Vote for WACC communication rights projects in WSIS Prizes 2025 contest

Webinar | Recognizing Disinformation and Misinformation

Inclusive strategies deepen digital access in Nigeria

Just Digital course now available in French and Spanish

WACC lanza su curso en línea Justamente Digital

Lancement de cours en ligne « Justement Numérique » de la WACC

An assault on the words we use

CSW69 panel calls for reform of global framework to safeguard women’s communication and digital rights

WACC partners outline pathways to social justice–oriented implementation of Global Digital Compact

Gender equality: Braking the downward slide

GAMAG calls for commitments to women and media in Beijing Platform to be upheld

WACC Europe webinar highlights gender gaps in media across Europe

CSW69: WACC and partners to take stock of women’s communication rights 30 years post-Beijing

Eroding communication rights threatens democracy

Newest Media Development explores how digital justice is key to achieving climate justice

Project with JFC and WACC Africa to Stop TFGBV and End Misogyny in Nigeria

Rod Molina joins GMMP as project coordinator ahead of 7th global media monitoring

Rebuilding Gaza demands restoration of people’s communication rights

Transparency Reporting Index

ACT Alliance North America members meet to strengthen their collective work and witness

Everything you need to know about the WSIS+20 Review – Global Partners Digital

CAMECO job opportunities

Big Tech undermine free speech and democracy

WACC Europe webinar highlights diverging views on social media engagement

Whose voices are heard at Davos?

Nothing about us without us: Why digital justice requires communication rights

WACC Asia elects new board, plans renewal of regional work

Meta: Freedom of expression for whom?

Learn more and sign the Haarlem Declaration

WACC New Year's Message 2025

Discover the 7 WACC Communication Principles

Christmas wishes from WACC

WACC | CDAC Network reflects on AI ethics, communication with disaster-affected communities

Communication rights uphold human rights

Taking Action Against Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: Toolkit for Trainers and Advocates

Take Action to Stop Online Gender-Based Violence

Call to monitor misogyny on social media for the 16 Days of Activism

Webinar presents tools, strategies to tackle disinformation

Religion and Disinformation: How to be a trusted source

What will it take to decisively end violence against women?

WACC Europe board considers ethical use of AI, promotion of communication rights

Latest Media Development focuses on global vision of digital justice

The Philippines disinformation machine

COP29 Declaration on Green Digital Action

Standing up to tyranny, protecting press freedom

WACC urges ACT Alliance members to be attentive to issues of communicative justice

Just Digital — Navigate Wisely Online

The Media Viability Manifesto

Confessions of an AI Sceptic

WACC Online Learning Centre

WACC partners to highlight key role of local voices at UN global biodiversity summit

Discover WACC's Annual Report 2023

WACC partner forum to give communication rights response to UN Global Digital Compact

WACC Comment | Holding video streaming services to account

Meet the people behind the data in new GMMP blog series

Training in Social Media Monitoring | #StopTFGBV

WACC Comment | The Global Digital Compact: A step in the right direction

“You Are Not Alone” project meets communication, information needs of migrants in Asia Pacific

Comment | Summit of a Future for All?

Toolkit launched as part of initiative to stop online gender-based violence

Initiative to stop online gender-based violence set to launch

New Media Development explores communication in conflict situations

WACC laments closing of Latin America and Caribbean ecumenical communication agency

Why we must convene local actors to tackle the climate emergency: The case of Radio Ideal

Why the people need a Global Digital Compact

Indigenous citizen communicators in the Philippines ready to champion climate justice

Far-right conspiracies and extremist ideologies depend on social media

Communication school empowers migrant, host communities in Colombia and Venezuela

Project strengthens Indigenous community radio in Central America

Digital literacy strengthens voice of Indigenous Soliga communities in India

Football, free expression, and the defeat of fascism

Media organizations urge Israel to open access to Gaza - Committee to Protect Journalists

Project addresses gender stereotypes, sexism in Senegal’s online media

Communication Justice for All — Discover WACC's work in 2023!

“Just Digital” course launched to help ecumenical users navigate wisely online

Annual Report 2023 spotlights work for communication justice for all

Digitalization should carry a planetary health warning

Mandato del XI Foro Social Panamazónico

“You Are Not Alone” — a community of care for migrants in Asia Pacific

It doesn’t have to be hate speech to harm

Community media essential to protect the Amazon, concludes new WACC publication

Put migrants at the center to shape rights-based narratives about migration

WSIS+20 Forum session outlines recommendations for gender-just digital governance

WACC launches Voices of the Amazon to equip local communities to shape climate policy

#GenerationRestoration: Recognizing media on World Environment Day

WSIS+20 in 2025: A not-to-be-missed opportunity to guarantee a new democratic global digital governance framework

GFMD Statement on UN Pact for the Future

GISWatch | WSIS+20: Reimagining horizons of dignity, equity and justice for our digital future

Last chance for a just digital future?

Civil society urged to plug into WSIS+20 process

WACC Call for Projects 2024

Register for the WSIS+20 Forum

WACC Comment | He who pays the piper calls the tune

Register | Unheard Migrant Voices

Voices of the Amazon equips local communities to shape climate policy

Community network empowers women and youth in Kenya’s Mathare Valley

WACC issues Call for Projects

Stripping away media bias in the interest of greater understanding

Reflections from CSW68: The journey towards gender equality

WACC welcomes Canadian action plan on gender equality as opportunity to advance communication for all

What makes for exemplary war photojournalism?

Indigenous citizen communicators in the Philippines ready to champion climate justice

Strengthening rural women’s access to broadband in Uganda

Ten communicators honored as WACC Laureates

Where is the money? How international development is failing democratic communication

Radio station boosts vital communication link for Rendille speakers in Kenya

Keep gender at center of global digital governance, NGO CSW68 event urges

Media monitoring key to breaking down gender stereotypes, CSW68 hears

CSW68: WACC and partners aim to empower women for the digital age

International Women’s Day 2024: #InspireInclusion in and through media

New Media Development Explores Democratic Digital Governance

The weaponization of digital communications

Women-led community networks in Costa Rica transmit Indigenous identity to next generations

Voices of the Andean moorlands (paramos)

Eroding communication rights top list of global risks in 2024 and beyond

Learn about and register for "AI, You, and Your Organization"

The Algorithm Rules – That’s Not OK!

Communication helps Syrian refugee children in Jordan develop mental resiliency

WACC calls for rights-based approach to migration narratives at GFMD Summit

Global migration summit hears how WACC partners are shifting public narratives on migration

Migrants Are Not Just There To Be Spoken About, They Have a Voice

Civil society must respond to digital colonialism with just digital transformation

The Economics of Freedom of Expression

What is gender-based online disinformation — and what can we do about it?

What price compassionate communication?

WACC president urges renewed efforts to tackle communication rights challenges in 2024

Project teaches strategic communications to land defenders in Mexico and Central America

Bridging information gaps to boost climate resiliency in Zimbabwe

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WACC Christmas message 2023

Young leaders adopt media monitoring as key tool against gender cyberviolence

"Migration Rights Are Human Rights | Media Development 4/2023

North America Migrant Media Monitoring Project Webinar

Fact check, yes. And join a community of trust.

Workshop will help young people take action against online gender-based violence

Education, community key to churches seeking truth amid misinformation

Training local climate voices in the Philippines

Register for the WACC–WCC webinar "Seeking and serving the truth?"

Local communities hold missing link to climate action

Celebrating the Universal Declaration, condemning attacks on media freedom

#NoExcuse: Join the 16 Days of Activism campaign and take action to #EndCyberGBV

WACC Latin America joins regional call to protect and promote Indigenous community media

Call to re-strategize for GMMP 2025 to tackle new challenges of gender equality in the media

Re-building trust in the age of artificial intelligence

Meet the Shirley Struchen and the other WACC Laureates!

Regulating digital corporations: A matter of rights

WACC welcomes Quito Declaration affirming communication for social justice

COP 28: Let’s ensure traditional ecological knowledge is integrated into climate policy

Media freedom and independent journalism are vital to democracy

Community radio network to strengthen Indigenous communication rights in Argentina

WACC partners report at Internet Governance Forum how community networks create digital inclusion

Berlin TV festival highlights ‘Belief on Screen,’ awards Hans W. Florin Prize

WACC virtual conversation to look at role of local voices in climate action

Comment | Digital technologies help counter language loss

Register for "Local Climate Voices: The Missing Link to Real Climate Action?"

Training youth in Georgia to build a safer, more secure digital world

Indigenous communication rights in action in Guatemala

Africa Climate Summit: To save a planet in crisis, we need community media

Project to uphold digital rights in Philippines in face of SIM Registration Act

Why grassroots communication is key to stopping Amazon deforestation

Digital justice means closing the gender digital gap, say WACC partners

Project to build capacity of Indigenous communication in northern Argentina

“Who is talking with the audience?” Media Development 3/2023

Can social media change my mind?

WACC partner forum outlines agenda for just digital future

Digital Justice Study and Action Guide

WACC project to support Indigenous peoples’ right to freedom of expression in Guatemala

Derailing the UN Sustainable Development Goals

WACC partner forum aims to develop common agenda to advance digital justice

WACC promotes communication rights at global communication research conference

Media viability vs. platforms for those without a public voice to be seen and heard

WACC Annual Report 2022

Gender equality “moving backwards”

WACC celebrates achievements of participants in cross-regional migration reporting programme

Breaking Down the Social Media Divides

Migrants and refugees in the media

WACC launches quiz as fun tool to promote digital justice

New Media Development issue looks at unfinished business of archival justice

WACC Board of Directors moves to strengthen mission of communication for all

General Secretary: WACC must steer course toward a global dialogue platform on communicative freedom

WACC President calls for purposeful approach to communication for all in post-Covid era

Development and digital access: Fostering equitable pathways to inclusion

New WACC Global Board to hold first meeting

Anticipating a Fake News Pandemic

WACC Europe elects new leadership

WACC Europe considers agenda for the future to promote digital justice

Global Media Monitoring Project tools can address gender blind spots in news industry

WACC and WACC introduce social media monitoring

Speaking up against enforced public amnesia

WACC’s 2022 Annual Report highlights collective work to advance communication rights

From Words to Action: Statements on Communication for a Better Future

Grassroots voices needed for impactful civil society statements

Artificial Intelligence and the Master’s House

WACC Global appoints Juha Rajamäki as treasurer

Launch of Digital Democracy Initiative for digital tech that supports human rights, democracy

WACC Caribbean elects new board, sets thematic directions

WACC online discussion to explore how statements could drive social change

Embert Charles Re-Elected as WACC President

Using new technologies to create safe and diverse media spaces

“Getting our skates on” as communication rights advocates

Education, advocacy, and action key to advancing gender justice in digital spaces governed by algorithms

Experts say regulation of legacy, digital media needed to advance women’s communication rights

CSW webinar 9 March: Algorithms, the Digital Divide, and Polarization: Impact on Gender Justice

Latest Media Development takes communications rights look at modern-day utopias

European television festival to explore the face of religious broadcasting

Communication rights on World Day of Social Justice

WACC North America receives media monitoring report, elects new board

#SaferInternetDay: Here’s to a misogyny-free Internet

General public can drive more just media coverage of migration

Climate change and global economics: Whose voices are heard at Davos?

Democratic society needs women in the media, concludes Al Jazeera panel

WACC signs letter highlighting impact of bans on Afghan women’s human rights

Terms of Reference — Communication for All Programme Evaluation

Internet Connectivity through Community Resolve

Principles to promote communication for social justice in a digital age

Words Matter: Changing the Narrative About Migrants and Refugees

Qatar: Digital surveillance and human rights abuse

Webinar breaks ground for ecumenical gender and media observatory

WACC panel at SBCC Summit to feature communication for climate justice initiatives

Webinar to offer practical tools to root out gender cyberviolence

Promoting Creole to challenge discrimination in the Caribbean

Media gender equality in the era of diversity

WACC calls for action to end digital violence against women

Rethinking our role as social media “users”

New Media Development issue offers signposts for communication rights

Communicating climate justice: A vital part of COP27’s outcomes

New guide unpacks what it means to be a digital justice advocate

Words Matter: Changing the Narrative About Migrants and Refugees

Calling out government censorship of the Internet

Workshop and study guide to help people navigate justice issues online

Strengthening women and communities: challenges for communication in Latin America

Municipalities are key players in developing gender-just media

WACC public forum in Argentina looks at equality in the media

WACC Latin America elects new Regional Executive Committee

New gender deal for media needed to ensure women’s communication rights

WACC partner forum to focus on communication rights as cornerstone for social justice in Latin America

From a life of sex trafficking to a life of hope: listen to Joy’s story

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WACC introduces gender-based media monitoring to WCC participants

WACC joins the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy

WACC urges churches, faith communities to join digital justice movement

Let's End Violence Against Women and Secure Gender Justice

‘Together, we can break the barriers that obstruct gender justice in & through the media’

WACC staff, members to attend 11th WCC Assembly

Are Indigenous Voices Being Heard? View/Download study

WACC, WCC initiative tackles cyberviolence against women

Putting people first rather than corporate interests

Communication, Climate Justice and Climate Change

WACC extends 100 Languages in 100 Days challenge

Amplifying Voices

How to raise awareness in 10 seconds: Social media cards

Digital Justice: A new dimension of communication rights

Community Network Xchange event to feature WACC partners

Opportunities for communication rights in the context of Latin America’s ‘Pink Tide’ 2.0

Crossword puzzle: digital justice

Join our Digital Justice Campaign Now!

What do you know about digital justice?

Events Gender Justice: Advancing Pluralism and Free Speech For All

‘Gender equality is a cause I’m deeply passionate about,’ says new WACC intern

'Women of the blame'

No climate justice without communication justice

So you think you know about digital justice? Take our quiz & find out!

Trustworthy News or Greastest Show on Earth?

I Love my country, But Can’t Go Back There Just Yet

Communicating climate change in Venezuela's most vulnerable communities

Take our QUIZ: What do you know about digital justice?

Take Action: Towards a vision of digital justice

Summer job available for students: Communications Assistant

Gender-blind’ reporting hinders fight to end violence against women

Project enhances broadcasting capacity of Indigenous community radio in Honduras, Guatemala

Why a gender lens in news coverage of violent crime is paramount

Project tackles lack of support for Indigenous communicators in Peru

Elder and human rights activist Doreen Spence receives Honorary Doctor of Laws

Latest WACC journal focuses on Canada’s Indigenous media

WACC to launch results of journalist training program on refugees, migrants

La communication pour la justice sociale à l’ère du numérique

Language rights and digital justice

Changing the Narrative: Results from the cross-regional journalist training programme

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India project boosts digital literacy skills of rural women

‘Nothing about migrants without migrants”: At UN event, WACC partners stress importance of communication rights

La communication pour la justice sociale à l’ère du numérique

Manifiesto: La comunicación para la justicia social en la era digital

Digital Justice: A New Dimension of Communication Rights

Kommunikation für soziale Gerechtigkeit im digitalen Zeitalter

Words have meaning

La communication pour la justice sociale à l’ère du numérique

Independent media in retreat?

WACC to co-host UN side event to share best practices for meeting communication needs of migrants

100 Languages in 100 Days: Have you volunteered yet?

Manifiesto: La comunicación para la justicia social en la era digital

A network of Indigenous human rights reporters is born in Honduras

Digital Justice: A new dimension of communication rights

Supporting communities in sharing stories of climate change

Communicating Climate Change

Educating the public about agroecology’s role in the fight vs climate change

Join the 100 Languages in 100 Days Challenge

Realising Gender Equality

Digital storytelling with Palestinian refugee women in Lebanon

Perugia Declaration for Ukraine – 3 May 2022

Web3 – the Internet’s illusionary or visionary future?

Jordan’s Community Media Network awarded JTI Certification: first among Arabic-language media outlets

WACC partners highlight digital challenges, opportunities for Latin America community media

Digital Justice

Climate Change and Human Rights course

Climate Justice Resources

Conéctate al Webinar Internacional: Superar la brecha digital de género, es buscar justicia en el continente

Study of how Indigenous people are represented in Canadian media shows room for improvement

Guide pratique sur les droits à la communication

Successful meet with the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority

WACC strengthens migrants’ community radio network in Colombia

Canada: Just 31% of news subjects are women

Media Activism Against Extractivism

The No-Nonsense guide to Communication, Climate Justice and Climate Change

Timeline: WACC history in decades

Put women, girls at centre of post-Covid reconstruction and news

Register now for the GMMP-NGO CSW66 Forum

Information access under threat

La Cámara de Diputados reconoció a comunicadores radialistas aymaras

Laws must change to protect journalists, says NGO CSW forum

Students draft ‘Readers’ Charter’ to address disinformation

International Women’s Day: WACC, WCC pledge to #BreaktheBias

News media and disinformation in an unpredictable world

WACC statement: War on Ukraine and media crackdown in Russia

2021 Annual Report stresses WACC’s crucial role in digital age

ACT Alliance Statement on Ukraine

Migrant workers receive citizen journalism training in Lebanon

Negative portrayals of migrant workers on the rise in Lebanese news

Media ‘platforming’ and the oxygen of publicity

Migration Reporting

Building Credibility and Trust in the Digital World

‘I’m only 22, but it feels like my life is over,’ says Afghan woman journalist

Tackling digital colonialism

ACT Alliance urges Trudeau to lift restrictions on humanitarian aid to Afghanistan

Migration Reporting

The No-Nonsense Guide to Communication Rights and the Internet

WACC announces new Strategic Plan

Media coverage of migrants, refugees can and must be better

'Journalist' or 'Activist'?

Radio production with ‘decolonizing approach’ seeks to change discourse in Bolivia

WACC project offers training to transform coverage of migrants and refugees

Gender and Communication Rights

New threat to human rights in Putin's Russia

Malawi: Bridging the connectivity gap via Community Networks

Project aims to change the way refugees, migrants are seen and heard

Digital Justice