Monthly Archives: January 2022

WACC’s Board of Directors has approved a new Strategic Plan for 2022-2026, intended as a foundation for its network worldwide “to take a leadership role that advances communication rights in a rapidly changing world.”  [See Spanish and French versions] The plan focuses on new program priorities, building bridges, networks, and partnerships; enhancing communications, and strengthening organizational management systems and resources.   “We… Read more »

24 Jan 2022 Media coverage of migrants, refugees can and must be better A former refugee from Syria is urging journalists to avoid the narrative that portrays refugees as succeeding “despite being a refugee” or “despite (their) background,” and to recognize instead that people who were forced to flee their homelands do “have an entire life’s worth of experiences” to… Read more »

24 Jan 2022 “Journalist” or “Activist”? Posted at 00:00h in Comment by Saskia Rowley In a recent training session for current and would be journalists, a repeated question came up – can a journalist be an activist? Or – asked with even more urgency in the context of injustice – how can a journalist not be an activist? There is… Read more »

20 Jan 2022 Radio production with ‘decolonizing approach’ seeks to change discourse in Bolivia Posted at 17:56h in News by Marites (Tess) Sison Nearly 200 years after its founding, Bolivia continues to grapple with racism and discrimination exacerbated, in part, by political forces vying for power. Much of the discrimination has been  directed against Indigenous communities. “These polarizing discourses impact… Read more »

18 Jan 2022 WACC project trains journalists to transform coverage of migrants, refugees Three WACC Regional Associations are collaborating on a pioneering initiative to help journalists cover refugee and migration issues “ethically and accurately,” to enable refugees and migrants speak out on their behalf, and to strengthen NGOs working with migrants and refugees to work with news media and address… Read more »

10 Jan 2022 New threat to human rights in Putin’s Russia Russia’s supreme court has ordered the closure of Memorial International, the country’s oldest human rights group. Memorial has joined a growing list of investigative news outlets, journalists, and rights organisations classed as being an agent of foreign powers. Many believe the move is politically motivated. A term with Soviet-era… Read more »

07 Jan 2022 Project aims to change the way IDPs in Cameroon are seen, heard WACC and the Christian Broadcasting Service of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon have partnered to help promote a more positive attitude and counter hate narratives toward migrants in Douala, Cameroon’s economic capital. Doula hosts more than 400,000 of the more than one million Internally Displaced… Read more »