Promoting Communication for Social Change
Global News
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Programme Updates
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Deutsche Welle offers training scholarships
Bonn, Germany, 17 Dec 2008
Applications are being sought for a Master’s Program in ‘International Media Studies’, a four-semester, full-time program of further education.
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Media’s role in building peace in the Middle East
Beirut, Lebanon, 5 Jan 2009
Many communicators told stories about their work during WACC’s Congress 2008. One involved work in Lebanon and Iraq working with journalists to build peace.
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Human Rights Day WACC Statement -10 December 2008
Toronto, Canada, 10 Dec 2008
WACC joins the global community in commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by calling attention to violations of dignity and justice through media representations that negate the worth of women as human beings.
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Chile profiled in a Protestant Mapuche family
Santiago, Chile, 22 Dec 2008
Learning more about the lives of people remote from our own present is a vital part of communicating to build a more peaceful future.
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Features
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Con los auspicios de espacio Insular y la WACC
Santo Domingo, 17 Dec 2008
Decenas de migrantes haitianos y profesores de escuelas públicas participaron este domingo 14 de diciembre en una jornada de capacitación en Información Pública y Derechos Humanos y como desde el ciudadano y ciudadana se puede acceder a las informaciones públicas.
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El Salvador’s bitter past haunts the present
Toronto, Canada, 9 Dec 2008
El Salvador’s political parties are preparing for 2009, when presidential, legislative, and municipal elections will be held in the same year for the first time since 1994. The current President, Elias Antonio Saca, won a five-year term in March 2004. It was the fourth successive victory for the controversial ARENA party. However, Saca is ineligible to stand for a second term.
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Proyecto: “Comunicación para la vida: Prevención del VIH Sida en Adolescentes y Jovenes”
Managua, Nicaragua, 1 Dec 2008
Desde el mes de Ocubre del 2007 hasta Octubre 2008, el Centro Intereclesial de Estudios Teológicos y Sociales ejecutó el proyecto: “Comunicación para la vida: Prevención del VIH Sida en Adolescentes y Jovenes” el cual benefició a un total de 81 adolesentes con un rango de edad de 12 a 18 años.
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The Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor: Indigenous Peoples have rights too!
Phoenix, Arizona, 27 Nov 2008
Communication for peace takes many forms. Since 1992, Peace and Dignity Journeys, an NGO based in Phoenix, Arizona, has been organizing a spiritual run for Indigenous Peoples with a difference: it covers the whole of South and North America.
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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.