Centre for Communication Rights News

Internet Society Board affirms that the Internet enables human rights

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:37:42 +0100

The Internet Society views the Internet as an essential vehicle for promoting freedom of opinion and expression, including "freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through...

African Platform on Access to Information adopted at conference in Cape Town

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:39:39 +0100

Around 220 delegates from diverse sectors gathered together in Cape Town, South Africa, 17-19 September 2011 in a meeting that led to the signature of the African Platform on Access to Information.

India pursues communication rights

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:33:07 +0100

Negotiating Communication Rights: Case Studies from India written by Pradip Ninan Thomas has appeared from the publishers Sage (June 2011). Communication Rights is a key issue in contemporary societies, especially in a country like India, which faces major communication deficits. Negotiating...

WSF delegates promote communication rights

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:34:20 +0100

Meeting in Dakar, Senegal, during the World Social Forum (6-11 February 2011) representatives of more than 60 communication organisations declared that the right to communicate is a fundamental right and a common good of humanity . Meeting on the last...

Human rights and communication rights: a necessary alliance

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:57:43 +0100

As part of its work on communication for social change, since 2007 WACC has supported some 79 projects in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America under its programme "Building and Recognising Communication Rights". The concept of communication rights is...

Continental network of Indigenous communicators: a step closer

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Under its programme Building and Recognising Communication Rights WACC has supported a number of communication projects for indigenous communities in Asia and Latin America. The programme is rooted in the principle that communication is an essential human need and a...

AMARC ALC publica guía de prácticas, reglamentaciones y normas

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:39:16 +0100

En los últimos años se han producido intensos debates en diversos países del continente por nuevas ormativas en materia de radiodifusión, insertos en un contexto de convergencia tecnológica y digitalización, de una tendencia preocupante hacia la concentración de medios de...

New training manual on communication rights

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:49:42 +0100

This manual was developed in the context of a communication rights project implemented by the Creative Centre for Communication and Development (CCCD), Zimbabwe, with support from the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) under its programme 'Recognizing and building on...

Communication rights and media concentration

Tue, 18 May 2010 15:03:23 +0100

“If ‘the word’ was not so concentrated, more would question prevalent inequalities.” The owners of the word: access, structure and concentration of the media in the 21st century Latin America, a new book by the Argentinean researchers Marín Becerrra and...

UNESCO conference endorses freedom of information and right to know

Thu, 13 May 2010 13:52:45 +0100

Participants at the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day conference held 3 May 2010 in Brisbane, Australia, issued a declaration calling on journalists to promote and support investigative journalism and to raise awareness about the role played by the right...