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Keeping WACC’s ear to the ground

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  Consultation in Costa Rica focuses on “Communication and Social Change: Beyond the SDGs”. WACC project partners are meeting in Costa Rica, 23-25 October, to focus on how their work on communication rights can contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The consultation is taking place in cooperation with the Fundación de la Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa… Read more »

Hearing the voices of the world’s poor

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By Staff on October 16, 2017   Tackling poverty worldwide is ever more urgent. Photo: Courtesy of Peru Reports. On International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, October 17, WACC calls for greater solidarity with the world’s poor people. WACC’s pioneering work on media monitoring of poverty provides evidence to hold media outlets accountable for their representation of people living in… Read more »

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 »

Rania’s journey: telling a story from a first-hand perspective

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Rania Mustafa Ali, a 20-year old Syrian woman, filmed her whole journey from the ruins of Kobane to Austria. Crossing the border into Turkey, taking a dangerously overcrowded dinghy to Greece, reaching an already closed FYROM border at Idomeni, and searching for ways to move forward and to reach safety, Rania’s journey is a powerful testimony of the hardships endured… Read more »

Towards a charter on media reporting about refugees

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As increasing numbers of people are seeking refuge in Europe, what can be done to promote the rights of refugees to speak on their own behalf, to uphold good journalistic practices in reporting on refugees and migrants, and to raise the visibility of refugee voices and networks? These questions are at the centre of the Refugees Reporting project, launched by… Read more »

It’s the quality that matters. On the representation of refugees in the media

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Over the past two years, with higher numbers of people arriving on the coasts of Italy and Greece, European media attention suddenly turned to the issue of refugees and migrants. We witnessed a spike in the number of articles, reportages and multimedia material covering the topic. While the importance of focusing the attention on this cannot be overstated, the quality… Read more »