Monthly Archives: September 2017

Guest post. Europe Must Not Neglect its Responsibility for Refugees

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  Recent data, published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), reports a major decline in migrants and refugees who have taken the perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea and arrived into Europe so far this year. This signifies over a fifty per cent reduction in those risking their lives to enter Europe, compared to the same period last year…. Read more »

Language rights are still under threat

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By Staff on September 22, 2017   Language rights are important both South and North. Image courtesy of Solidaridad. Two journalists have been attacked in Algeria while promoting Kabyle language and media. According to a report by PEN International (13 September 2017), journalists Reda Amrani and Rachid At Ali Uqasi were attacked in a town in Béjaïa Province, northern Algeria, as… Read more »

A conversation between journalists and refugees

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One of the issues that came out of conversations had in the framework of the Refugees Reporting project with representatives of refugees groups and media professionals was the limited opportunities for both groups to meet, interact and discuss. It is in this spirit then, that a consultation between journalists and refugees’ representatives was organised on Friday 15 September in Brussels…. Read more »

Filipino Indigenous people’s radio goes on air

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By Staff on September 19, 2017   The launch of Radyo Lumad at the University of the Philippines. Photo: RMP-NMR. WACC partner Radyo Lumad began broadcasting 18 September 2017 from the University of the Philippines – Diliman campus. The community radio station was set up with the support of the European Union (EU) and under WACC’s programme on communication for social… Read more »

A Sea Prayer to commemorate Alan Kurdi

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and The Guardian teamed up to produce Sea Prayer, a 360 virtual reality animation video to commemorate the second anniversary of the death of Alan Kurdi, a three-year old Syrian boy who drowned during his attempted flight from Turkey to Greece in 2015. UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and renowned writer Khaled Hosseini wrote Sea Prayer, imagined… Read more »