Monthly Archives: December 2020

21 Dec 2020 Remembering the past to reimagine the future Posted at 00:00h in Comment by Saskia Rowley Cloud storage and hard drives are today’s scrapbooks, records, and memories. In his book delete (2009), Viktor Mayer-Schönberger explored “The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age”. He writes, “As humans we do not travel ignorantly through time. With our capacity to… Read more »

18 Dec 2020 Mongolia journalists, students learn how to use their gender ethics compass Twenty students and 20 young journalists in Mongolia have gained a better understanding of gender equality in reporting after taking part in a WACC-supported project implemented by the Press Institute of Mongolia’s School of Journalism.   The project, Increasing awareness of gender inequality in media content in… Read more »

18 Dec 2020 WACC: ‘Uphold migrants’ dignity and humanity’ On December 18, International Migrants Day, WACC calls on governments, civil society, the international community, and other interested actors around the world to work together to promote a rights-based approach to migration — one that upholds migrants’ dignity and humanity, and promotes dialogue and understanding between migrants and host communities. This year’s theme… Read more »

14 Dec 2020 Empowering women by tackling online harassment and abuse Posted at 00:00h in Comment by Saskia Rowley Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 says, “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” In other words,… Read more »

09 Dec 2020 General Secretary’s message on Human Rights Day 2020 Human Rights Day 2020 Message by Philip Lee, WACC General Secretary Fake news and disinformation, sanctioned by some political leaders and spread by social media, are major threats to democracy today. In late 2016, Oxford Dictionaries selected “post-truth” as the word of the year, defining it as “relating to… Read more »

08 Dec 2020 ‘Get vaccinated against misinformation’ radio campaign by WACC partner yields positive results About 42, 360 inhabitants of remote Indigenous communities in Guerrero, Mexico are being provided with life-saving information about Covid-19, thanks to WACC-supported radio programs in Mixtec and Spanish produced by local partner, Centro de Investigación en Comunicación Comunitaria A.C. (CICCAC). Broadcast on Radio Zapata 94.1 FM, the… Read more »

07 Dec 2020 Speaking up for decency and dialogue Posted at 00:00h in Comment by Saskia Rowley Stars on the digital Walk of Infamy are being awarded to world leaders. Former US President Donald Trump, current Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and current Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro have each received one. They have been admonished by Twitter and Facebook for posts… Read more »