Promoting Communication for Social Change
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Recognising and Building Communication Rights PDF Print E-mail

CECOPI Tiwanacu BoliviaClaiming and using communication rights are integral to shaping societies that fully respond to human needs and people everywhere needs to improve their economic, political, social and cultural lives. Attaining communication rights for women is a step towards gender equality. Projects will claim and build communication rights for human development, social inclusion, and participatory citizenship, as well as creating an enabling environment by advancing awareness and recognition of communication rights locally, nationally or internationally.

For more resources on communication rights visit: WACC’s Centre for Communication Rights portal

Objectives

  1. Increase awareness and recognition of communication rights as a human right and as a part of fair and sustainable political, social, cultural and economic development.
  2. Promote awareness and recognition of women’s communication rights.
  3. Advance the communication rights of marginalised groups including indigenous and tribal peoples, disabled people, refugees, migrants and others, or strengthen their communication capacity through training, equipment acquisition, networking, research and advocacy.
  4. Enable communities to access and make use of appropriate information and communication technologies.

Links

Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Reading and Resources

Why are communication rights so controversial?
The communication rights issue, the right to communicate (r2c), is among the most controversial in the negotiation process leading up to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

The right to communicate affirms and restores human dignity
Communication as a right is a comparatively new concept, although its roots reach deep into the history of human thought. The arguments that underlie it are complex and contested.

Communication is Inscribed in Human Nature
The discourse on the right to communicate seems to be gathering a new momentum) Many people, at the threshold of a new millennium, experience a sense of powerlessness about the world around them.  They want to speak out but cannot make themselves heard. 

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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.

The World Association for Christian Communication is a UK Registered Charity (number 296073) and a Company registered in England and Wales (number 2082273) with its Registered Office at 71 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX. It is an incorporated Charitable Organisation in Canada (number 83970 9524 RR0001) with its head office at 308 Main Street, Toronto ON, M4C 4X7.