31 May 2024 Put migrants at the center to shape rights-based narratives about migration To enable migrants to be seen and heard, we must ensure that they are at the center of our conversations, urged panelists from Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin America at WACC’s most recent Conversation Circle “Unheard Migrant Voices: Why Promoting Rights-Based Narratives on Migration is… Read more »
With the aim to reimagine the digital landscape through a gender-just lens, WACC and the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) are organizing a session at the World Summit on the Information Society – WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event in Geneva. Themed “Gender Equality and Inclusion in our Digital Future: A new gender deal for WSIS+20,” the session on Wednesday,… Read more »
21 May 2024 Last chance for a just digital future? Posted at 16:28h in Comment by Saskia Rowley Over the past 20 years, the many structural issues in the world’s communication and information ecosystem tackled by the 2023 and 2005 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) have become more complex, entrenched, and detrimental to democracy and communication rights. Primarily… Read more »
A WACC online discussion on 22 May will highlight tested solutions to enable migrants and refugees to be seen and heard, and identify action steps to change media and political narratives about migration. The 90-minute Conversation Circle “Unheard Migrant Voices: Why Promoting Rights-Based Narratives on Migration is More Critical Than Ever” will feature lessons from current work worldwide, including in… Read more »
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14 May 2024 Civil society urged to advocate for just digital future in WSIS+20 process Civil society organizations need to be active participants in multi-stakeholder dialogues to find solutions to current global challenges and to shape a just digital future, WACC expert Sarah Macharia urged the United Nations Civil Society Conference last week in Nairobi. Recent analyses clearly show that… Read more »
06 May 2024 He who pays the piper calls the tune Posted at 08:00h in Comment by Saskia Rowley The WSIS+20 Forum High-Level Event to be held in Geneva 27-31 May 2024 will mark twenty years of progress made in the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, which took place in two phases –… Read more »
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05 May 2024 MD 2024/2 Editorial Posted at 18:19h in Media Development 2024/2 by Saskia Rowley Ever since a right to communicate was imagined by Jean D’Arcy in 1969, the concept has been controversial. Like the right to memory, without which individuals and communities would be deprived of their identity and dignity, neither figures in the Universal Declaration of Human… Read more »
05 May 2024 Compassionate communication as human solidarity Posted at 18:18h in Media Development 2024/2 by Saskia Rowley Cees J. Hamelink In a recent book on “Communication and Human Rights”, I propose that all discussions on communication rights, the right to communicate or the right to communication should be based upon the notion of “communicative justice”.1 This means doing justice… Read more »
