By Staff on December 08, 2017   Human Rights Day marks the start of a year-long campaign to celebrate the UNDHR’s 70th anniversary in 2018. Human Rights Day falls on 10 December 2017 – the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR) in 1948. The UNDHR proclaims the rights to which everyone is entitled… Read more »

By Staff on December 07, 2017   Crowds of people march peacefully August 19, 2017 in downtown Boston protesting against a “Free Speech” rally featuring extremist racist and anti-semitic speakers. Photo courtesy of Telesur. ARTICLE 19 has joined with the social science database V-Dem to launch a tool for assessing freedom of expression and information worldwide. For a number of years,… Read more »

Gender violence including harassment, rape and trafficking is among the top 10 news topics in which women appear most, according to the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). Girls and women are disproportionately affected by such violence, and media play a significant role in perpetuating and challenging social norms that condone it (UN Women). The 2017 edition of the “16 Days… Read more »

By Staff on November 20, 2017   Children at play in Indonesia. Photo: Agoes Antara courtesy of BoredPanda. Universal Children’s Day falls on November 20, advocating and celebrating children’s rights and actions to build a better world for all. Children have the right to have a voice, to be listened to, and to be taken seriously. As such, children’s rights cannot… Read more »

By Staff on November 16, 2017   Cover image for the report “Changing the Narrative: Media Representation of Refugees and Migrants in Europe”. A “pattern of invisibility” of refugees and migrants themselves can be found in news reports on asylum and migration in European media, according to a new report presented in Brussels on 16 November 2017. Entitled, “Changing the Narrative: Media… Read more »

By Staff on November 15, 2017   Museum on Wheels in Kępno, Poland (2015). Photo taken by Filip Basara for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN. Used with the permission of the Museum. “Digital Media and Social Memory” is the theme of the latest issue of WACC’s journal Media Development. As the editorial notes, “Traditional media and other… Read more »

By Staff on November 09, 2017   A girl searches a wall bearing the names of 25,000 civilians killed during El Salvador’s long civil war. Photo: Paul Jeffrey. Remembrance Day has been observed by the Commonwealth of Nations since the end of the First World War in honour of members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty…. Read more »