WACC promotes communication for social change. It believes that communication is a basic human right that defines people\'s common humanity, strengthens cultures, enables participation, creates community and challenges tyranny and oppression. http://www.waccglobal.org Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:39:44 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.waccglobal.org/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.waccglobal.org WACC promotes communication for social change. It believes that communication is a basic human right that defines people\'s common humanity, strengthens cultures, enables participation, creates community and challenges tyranny and oppression. http://www.waccglobal.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1836&Itemid= Camden Principles reaffirm Freedom of Expression and Equality.By María Teresa Aveggio, Programme Manager, WACC    The Camden Principles on Freedom of Expression and Equality are founded on the understanding that freedom of expression and equality are foundational rights.“The Camden Principles demonstrate that the rights to equality and freedom of expression go hand-in-hand and mutually reinforce each other, and that neither one of these indispensable human rights can be achieved at the expense of the other.” With these words Dr Agnès Callamard, ARTICLE 19’s Executive Director introduced a ground breaking document which will guide legislators, policy-makers and civil society alike in balancing the rights to freedom of expression and equality. Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:16:22 +0100 http://www.waccglobal.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1835&Itemid=   WACC has released a DVD on communicating for peace as an educational resource. By Teresia Mutuku, Communications Officer and Web Manager, WACC   WACC has released a DVD on the theme of communicating for peace. The DVD, a first for WACC, is an educational resource for peace advocates and journalists about the importance of telling stories to communicate peace. The DVD, produced in collaboration with United Church of Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada, comes out of WACC’s global Congress on Communication is peace held in Cape Town, South Africa, October 2008. Over 300 faith based and secular communicators and peace advocates from around the world attended. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:32:04 +0100 http://www.waccglobal.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1819&Itemid= Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression presents annual report to the Human Rights Council. The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Mr Frank La Rue, has presented his annual report to the Human Rights Council. The report notes that people affected by extreme poverty risk becoming socially excluded from full participation in the society in which they are living, emphasizing the need for access to information to be guaranteed as a means towards securing participation and accountability. It was presented in Geneva on 2 June 2009. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:44:32 +0100 http://www.waccglobal.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1818&Itemid= International Communication Gazette calls for manuscripts for a special issue on ‘Communicating the Environment’.   2009 is a significant year for international political negotiations on the environment, marked by the December meeting of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where a new global treaty on climate, to replace the Kyoto Protocol, will be established. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:45:59 +0100 http://www.waccglobal.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1813&Itemid=   "There is a new and fresh consciousness of gender equality and women’s rights within journalism and the International Federation of Journalists” says General Secretary of the IFJ, Aidan White.By Lavinia Mohr, Director of Programmes, WACC   “There is a new and fresh consciousness of gender equality and women’s rights within journalism and the International Federation of Journalists, IFJ,” the General Secretary of the IFJ, Aidan White, told representatives of about sixty journalists unions from forty-five countries around the world.  They gathered in Brussels to attend a two-day conference on Gender and Ethics: Gender Equality in the Newsroom, 30 -31 May 2009.  The event was part of the International Federation of Journalists’ Ethical Journalism Initiative launched in 2008. The IFJ considers fair gender portrayal as part of ethical journalism, and sees it as a vital ethical challenge in journalism. Lavinia Mohr, WACC’s Director of Programmes  (left) and Mindy Ran, Chair of the IFJ Gender... Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:13:07 +0100 http://www.waccglobal.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1797&Itemid= Earth Journalism Awards to culminate at pivotal Copenhagen conference 2009.  WACC was delighted to see Internews open the Earth Journalism Awards competition on World Environment Day with a call to professional and citizen journalists around the world to enter their best reporting on climate change. Winners will be flown to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen this December, where they will cover these pivotal negotiations and be honoured at a high-profile awards ceremony. Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:40:54 +0100 http://www.waccglobal.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1796&Itemid=   On World Environment Day, June 5, 2009, WACC calls for action rather than words. It is time to move beyond information sharing alone.      On World Environment Day, June 5 2009, WACC calls for action rather than words. It is time to move beyond information sharing alone. Time to advance a shared vision of a sustainable future. Time to strengthen capacity building aimed at solving or preventing environmental problems within the constraints of the finite world in which we live. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:28:06 +0100 http://www.waccglobal.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1775&Itemid= WACC-related programme benefits from new book tackling communication rights. The Right to Communicate: Historical Hopes, Global Debates and Future Premises has just appeared in print. A major goal is to contribute to an intellectual and multidisciplinary framework that will help better understand emerging issues in the practice of this complex human right. This is the first book devoted to theme of the right to communicate since 1983 when L.S. Harms and Desmond Fisher published their landmark The Right to Communicate: A New Human Right – now out of print. Mon, 25 May 2009 15:17:48 +0100 http://www.waccglobal.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1724&Itemid= WACC calls for support for media campaigns to free Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.Aung San Suu Kyi has gone on trial at the notorious Insein prison in Rangoon. She is charged with breaching the terms of her house arrest, because of a visit by an American man who swam across a lake to her house earlier this month.It is still unclear how long the trial will take, but estimates range from a few days to several weeks, as the government is expected to summon 22 witnesses to support its claim. Fri, 22 May 2009 17:02:50 +0100 http://www.waccglobal.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1720&Itemid= WACC urges religious leaders and communicators toward action on climate justice. The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) is calling on religious leaders and communicators to emphasize the need for urgent and radical action on climate change in the run-up to the international Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, 6-18 December 2009. Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100