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UN Climate Change Media Fellowship awarded to WACC partner

Friday, 23 October 2009 20:51

By Teresia Mutuku, Communications Officer and Web Manager, WACC

The Director of the Centre for Communication and Development (CCD), a WACC project partner in Bangladesh, is among 40 outstanding journalists from 26 developing nations who will participate in this year’s Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) fellowship Programme.

G M Mourtoza, who is also the Editor of Radio Desh, the first news based online radio of Bangladesh, is one of the two journalists from the country to have received this significant fellowship.

A WACC statement on the Flooding in the Philippines

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 19:58

		It is with a growing sense of concern that WACC is monitoring the news of unprecedented flooding in Manila, as well as in other parts of the Philippines. The images sent throughout the world leave us both overwhelmed by the power of nature and anxious for WACC Philippine members and their families. The flooding may well be yet another sign of climate change, underscoring the urgency of making wise and far-reaching decisions at the forthcoming Copenhagen conference.
Flooding in Manila (Photo source: BBC)

Bangladesh MP demands independent radio for indigenous people

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 16:33

By Teresia Mutuku, Communications Officer and Web Manager, WACC

		A Member of Parliament in Bangladesh, Fazle Hossain Badsha, has demanded an independent community radio for indigenous people in the country. Badsha was addressing 37 participants attending a WACC supported journalism training course held recently in the North-Western city of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. The seminar was organized by the Centre for Communication and Development (CCD), with the support of WACC which has provided a grant to the project under its Communication Rights Programme Area.
Map:Union of Catholic Asian news

Strengthening peace communication capacities in Nepal

Monday, 17 August 2009 16:35

By Kamal Raj Sigdel, Subaltern Forum, Nepal

WACC’s programme ‘Communication for Peace’ includes a focus on the concept of peace journalism. Throughout 2008 and 2009, Subaltern Forum, an NGO working in Nepal, has been putting peace journalism into practice.

Nepal, a small Himalayan country sandwiched between two giant economies, China and India, stands at a crucial point in its history. It is emerging out of a decade-long violent guerrilla war with a peace process that started with a cease fire deal in 2006 between the government and the (ex)rebel Maoists.

Training manual on media literacy in India

Friday, 14 August 2009 14:04

By Philip Lee, Deputy Director Program, WACC

In 2005 WACC participated in a workshop together with World Council of Churches and the Bossey Ecumenical Institute to look at the challenges posed by newly emerging technologies. The outcome was a discussion document called Convergent Technologies, which prompted a number of organisations around the world to pursue the debate and to contextualise different questions.

Isis International organizes seminar on community radio for peace

Thursday, 09 July 2009 14:35

Manila, Philippines: Isis International is organizing a five-day seminar called 'Women Making Airwaves for Peace' which is directly related to two of WACC's areas of concern: Media and gender justice and communication for peace.

WACC-Asia celebrates “Communication Sunday”

Thursday, 02 July 2009 16:24

By Rev. Judy Chan, Treasurer for WACC Asia

“Asia Communication Sunday” was successfully celebrated on 21 June with observances around the region on the theme: “Communication is peace: Taking sides to build viable communities.” The biggest event took place at Gurukul Lutheran Theological College in Chennai, India with a full slate of activities for the “Asia Communication Week”, June 21-27 .

Alternative broadcasting for the empowerment of migrant workers

Tuesday, 30 June 2009 19:31

By María Teresa Aveggio (Aguirre), Programme Manager, WACC & Teresia Mutuku, Communications Officer and Web Manager, WACC

		Based in Hong Kong since 1984, the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) is a church-based regional migrant centre working for the promotion and protection of the rights and wellbeing of migrants in the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions. It has consistently promoted and protected the rights and welfare of migrants in both regions which attract large numbers of migrants, the majority of whom work as domestic labourers.
APMM’s Managing Director, Ramon Bultron addressing WACC staff.

WACC Honorary member dies

Monday, 04 May 2009 21:52

By María Teresa Aveggio (Aguirre), Programme Manager, WACC

		It is with great sadness that WACC has learnt of the death of Dr Albert (Bertie) Manuel, a WACC Honorary member, on 30th of April 2009, in Santhome, Chennai in India. Affectionately and widely known as Bertie, Dr Manuel was a key figure in the establishment of the ‘new’ WACC in 1975. He was one of the pioneers that at that time provided a theological framework to the communication task of the Association.

WACC-Asia Region promotes Communication for Peace

Thursday, 12 March 2009 20:06

		WACC-Asia Regional Executive Committee is calling on all churches in the region to observe "Asia Communication Sunday" on June 21. The theme of the Communication Sunday is "Communication is Peace: Taking sides to build viable Communities".
WACC-Asia Region Chairperson, Rev. Dr. Samuel Meshack

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Regional Contacts

Chair
Rev. Samuel Wilson Meshack
India

Vice-Chair
Augustinus Sarwanto
Indonesia

Secretary
Maria Theresa Lauron
Philippines

Treasurer
Rev. Judy Chan
Hong Kong

Members

Naveen Qayyum
Thailand

Rev. Saw Mya Min Lwin
Myanmar

Staff Liaison
Randy Naylor

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