In its 2021 Annual Report, Social Justice in an Age of Uncertainty, WACC General Secretary Philip Lee underscores WACC’s critical role in “strengthening the voices of people who are at risk of being excluded from genuine social progress.” In his message, Lee notes that, “The exclusion of large numbers of people North and South from democratic political processes because they… Read more »
“Domestic workers are sick and tired of working round the clock, non-stop in a kafala system that is modern day slavery.” This was one of the sentiments raised in Hear Us, a photo essay by migrant workers in Lebanon who participated in a series of citizen journalism trainings as part of a WACC-supported project implemented by the Anti-Racism Movement’s (ARM)… Read more »
Lebanese news headlines about migrant workers are “getting more negative,” with clear biases detected “by word and tone,” says a media monitoring report published as part of a WACC-supported project in Lebanon. The report will be launched via Facebook Live on Sunday, February 27, at 3 p.m. (Beirut time). Negative news articles often portrayed citizen-employers as “superior to migrant workers… Read more »
22 Feb 2022 Media ‘platforming’ and the oxygen of publicity Posted at 09:29h in Comment by Saskia Rowley In 1985, following the hijacking of a Trans World Airlines flight by a Shi’ite Muslim group, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher accused the news media of providing the terrorists with the “oxygen of publicity”. Thatcher misconstrued the role of public interest media,… Read more »
The latest issue of Media Development, WACC’s quarterly journal, features some of the reflections and ideas generated before and during the historic symposium, Communication for Social Justice in a Digital Age, organized in the fall by WACC and the World Council of Churches (WCC). The symposium focused on the impact of digital transformation on communities and societies worldwide, and brought… Read more »
[Spanish] [French] [German] (Republished with permission from the WCC website) The WCC governing body on 14 February received “A New Communications Paper for the 21st Century: A vision of digital justice,” a text created in preparation for the WCC’s 11th Assembly later in 2022 that takes into account the results of a symposium on *“Communication for Social Justice in… Read more »
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