RESOUR> [NetGold] HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL RIGHTS : RELIGION: CHRISTIAN : WOMEN: ISSUES : GENDER: ISSUES: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)

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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 05:42:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetGold <NetGold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [NetGold] HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL RIGHTS : RELIGION: CHRISTIAN :
    WOMEN: ISSUES : GENDER: ISSUES: World Association for Christian
    Communication (WACC)

HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL RIGHTS : RELIGION: CHRISTIAN : WOMEN: ISSUES :
GENDER: ISSUES:  World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)

World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)
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What is WACC?

"The origins of WACC date back to 1950 when Christian communicators from
Europe and North America were seeking guidelines for the future of
religious broadcasting. Several organisations shared the same concerns and
they eventually established WACC in 1968. Rapid developments in mass media
world-wide and a concern to integrate the work of the Agency for Christian
Literature Development of the World Council of Churches led to a merger in
1975, that created the present WACC.

WACC works for human dignity, justice and peace. It sees genuine
communication as the basis of understanding and co-operation between
peoples of different faiths and cultures. It promotes freedom of
expression and information and the democratisation of communication.

WACC is genuinely ecumenical in its membership and communication
activities. It encourages co-operation between Protestant, Orthodox and
Roman Catholic communicators and challenges denominations to seek the
broadest possible base for their communication activities. WACC also
promotes co-operation between people of other faiths and ideologies."

What is WACC membership?

"WACC members receive news and information through its three main
publications as well as occasional books, an annual report and other
materials. Regional associations also produce newsletters. In addition,
members are invited to participate in regional and global activities such
as seminars, workshops and Congresses. Membership is open to individuals,
churches, church-related agencies and media producers, educational
institutions, secular communication organisations and others sympathetic
to WACCs aims and to its Christian Principles of Communication."

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Getting a Sense of WACC areas of concern through current WACC News
Headlines:

Post-Feminism, the Market and the Media: Forum Discussion

Solidarity with the Bolivian People

Media and Gender News Summer/Autumn 2003

Empowering Women in Evicted Slum Communities

'Shakti': Radio as Inspiration
Last Thursday, the Supreme Court gave a verdict for a legal amendment to
be instituted in order to recognise that forced sexual relations between a
husband with his wife should also be considered as rape (marital rape) and
punished. The court also ordered that rape of a commercial sex worker
should be punished in the same way as the rape of any other women.

Writing in a Time of Siege
>From February 1999  April 2001, Womens WORLD and Asmita Resource Centre
for Women conducted a series of 10 workshops, over half of which were
funded by the WACC Womens Programme, with women writers in 10 Indian
languages on the subject of gender-based censorship.

Leading Change: The Power to Act
Can womens leadership make a difference in the current global environment?
A resounding YES! was the response of the one thousand women from around
the world who met in Brisbane, Australia for the World Young Womens
Christian Association (YWCA) World Council from 5th  10th July 2003.

Post-Feminism, the Market and the Media: Introduction
Since the mid-1980s, a steady chorus of media reports and a rising number
of scholars have insisted that we live in a post-feminist era. The term
post-feminism is now frequently employed in both academic and popular
discourse and yet there is little consensus as to what the term means.

Gender and Media Baseline Study: Monitoring the Media in Southern Africa

A Tool for Change: Global Media Monitoring Project 2005
>From 7th  10th May, in Cape Town, fourteen men and women from around the
world came together to discuss the launch of a project which has been
described as one of the most extraordinary collective enterprises yet
organised within the global womens movement  the Global Media Monitoring
Project, or GMMP as it has come to be known.

Internews and UNICEF Support Youth Media Centers
Internews writes "(October 6, 2003) Fifty-one young people from various
schools and orphanages took part in a series of journalism seminars in
Baku and Ganja that were organized by Internews Azerbaijan and UNICEF."

EDICISA galvanising FOCCISA Communicators on HIV/AIDS
The Christian Communicators Workshop organized by EDICISA and WACC in
Lilongwe, Malawi in August ended with participants adopting a more
positive and aggressive strategy in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

The Ten Commandments - are they fair and balanced?
A national media spotlight has focused on the battle between the
Constitution of the United States and some religious fundamentalists who
viewed themselves as angels of Montgomery.

If Your Mother Tells You She Loves You...Check It Out!
This is the first challenge for journalists, to make scepticism their
profession, to question everything they are told, to probe, corroborate
and verify everything, whoever the source. That's what journalists are
meant to do, to reveal secrets, lies and deceptions, to expose the truths
that hold the powerful to account and control corruption and exploitation.
Scepticism is the basis of justice.

Choropampa: US Broadcast Premier
The award winning documentary Choropampa- The Price of Gold had its US
broadcast premiere in September on a television station that reaches a
million households in the very region of Colorado where Newmont Mining,
the corporation responsible for the mercury spill reported in the film,
has its head offices.

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WACC Publications
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Action Bulletin
Global Studies
Media & Gender Monitor
Media Development

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Religious Media
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The Right to Communicate
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WACC Members
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WACC sites
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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