Monthly Archives: July 2022

Community Network Xchange event to feature WACC partners

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27 Jul 2022 Community Network Xchange event to feature WACC partners Three WACC partners will be among 12 global “Internet Changemakers” who will make presentations at the 6thCommunity Network Xchange (CNX) on Friday, July 29, 10 a.m. (IST).   Members of the community network from Malawi (UmozaNet, the ICT Association of Malawi (ICTAM), and Mzuzu University), the Cabecar Women’s Network, and… Read more »

Opportunities for communication rights in the context of Latin America’s ‘Pink Tide’ 2.0

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In Latin America, the “pink tide” governments of the first decade of the 21st Century transformed the movement for communication rights by introducing far reaching media reform legislation. As a second wave of progressive governments are elected, the region has a new opportunity to move towards the democratization of increasingly fragmented and digitized communication ecosystems. Since 2018, with the election… Read more »

No gender justice without freedom of expression, say UN special rapporteur, GMMP coordinator & other experts

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Khan was one of the panelists at Gender Justice: Advancing Pluralism and Free Speech for All, a forum organized July 13 by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media. [Watch video here.] The other panelists were Sarah Macharia, coordinator of WACC’s Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) and general secretary of the Global… Read more »

‘Gender equality is a cause I’m deeply passionate about,’ says new WACC intern

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Angela Liu (she/they), an incoming fourth-year undergraduate student pursuing Peace, Conflict and Justice, Neuroscience and Political Science at University of Toronto, has recently joined WACC as a summer Communication Intern. Liu said she learned about WACC while attending the community service course organized by the Trudeau Centre of Peace, Conflict and Justice, which has been collaborating with the organization for… Read more »