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Congress
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Protect journalists against violations of press freedom
As the world marks Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2008, the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), a global communication advocacy organization based in Toronto, Canada, has released a statement calling on governments to protect journalists against violations of press freedom.
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WACC launches online donation appeal to support congress 2008
By Teresia Mutuku, Communications Officer and Web Manager, WACC
WACC has launched an online donation appeal to support less privileged or marginalized people to take part in Congress 2008, a global meeting of communicators to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, October 6-10. The focus is on women and youth, indigenous people, people living with disabilities and people living with HIV/AIDS, who are engaged in communication and peace initiatives in their communities.
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Communicating peace through people’s stories
Report on the WACC-Europe seminar on “Communication is peace”, Paralimni/Agia Napa, Cyprus, 2-6 April 2008
Communicating peace requires stories about people. This was a key conclusion drawn by participants in the seminar “Communication is peace” that met 2-6 April 2008 in Paralimni and Agia Napa, Cyprus. The event was organised by the WACC- Europe region in cooperation with WACC-Middle East. The telling of personal stories is a compelling means of engaging an audience in the lives, needs and dreams of real people. Communicating peace also calls for clear explanations based on careful research: simply stated, yet never over-simplified.
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News
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WACC-Europe assembly elects Juha Rajamäki as new president
Juha Rajamäki from Finland is the new president of WACC-Europe. The regional assembly, held once every three years, gathered from 2 to 6 April 2008 in Paralimni/Agia Napa, Cyprus. Rajamäki, head of the television department of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, was elected president for the upcoming three years. Rajamäki will also represent the European region on the global board of WACC.
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Programme News
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Poor urban women in Medellín claim right to communicate
By Philip Lee, Deputy Director of Programmes, WACC.
Working in the city of Medellín, Colombia, the Sumapaz Foundation is an NGO dedicated to promoting social development for excluded and/or impoverished sectors of society. It also advocates and defends human rights by means of organizational, training and management initiatives.
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Organizations in Middle East monitor media images of violence against women
By María Teresa Aguirre; Programme Manager, WACC
A communication workshop in Lebanon sponsored by WACC ten years ago has yielded unforeseen benefits.Members of the Helwan Association for Community Development (‘Bashayer’)- in partnership with Appropriate Communication Techniques for Development (ACT) – are half way to completing a year- long monitoring of images of violence against women in two of Cairo’s most important daily newspapers.
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Caribbean Action Plan for Gender and Media Advocacy
By Women’s Media Watch, Jamaica
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) in partnership with Women’s Media Watch (WMW) held a 3-day Regional Training Workshop on Gender and Media Advocacy, 10 to 12 April, 2008, in Kingston, Jamaica. The event brought together civil society as well as some media from 11 Caribbean countries. The regional delegates developed a Caribbean Action Plan for Gender & Media Advocacy.
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Features
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Poster campaign in India unmasks human trafficking
By Kristine Greenaway, Programme Manager, Congress 2008
Toronto, 21 March (WACC) - The minister had never heard the term “human trafficking” but he knew something was happening in his community on the border with Nepal in northeast India.“On Fridays, Nepali girls are coming to the bazaar then we never see them again,” he told Pradipta Singh, an official with the Church of North India.It was then the minister learned that those young women are being “trafficked” into the sex trade or into slave labour in New Delhi, Mumbai and other Indian cities.
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Re-opening of Cyprus Street can build trust, Christian media told
By Stephen G Brown, Ecumenical News International (ENI)
Paralimni, Cyprus, 4 April (ENI)--The opening of a street crossing point in Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, is a symbolic measure that could build trust between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, a meetingof European Christian journalists and communicators has heard. "Now is the time for everyone to ensure that the breakdown of the 'wall' in the shopping centre of Nicosia will really be the first and right step towards peace," said Cyprus-born Salpy Eskidjian Weiderud, a policy advisor on peace and security issues at the meeting in Cyprus.
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Pictorial News
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| Participants at the WACC-Europe Regional Assembly held in Paralimni/Agia Napa, Cyprus, 2-6 April 2008
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The new president of WACC-Europe region, Juha Rajamäki, from Finland (left), with the Mayor of Paralimni, Cyprus.
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The new president, Juha Rajamäki(left) and the outgoing President, Piet Halma, addressing the Regional Assembly.
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Participants at the Regional Assembly, during a cultural session.
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