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Your support will go a long way towards giving 'voice' to
people from the grassroots. A key component of WACC's global strategy is
to explore and debate current international communication issues of
concern to global and local development. WACC's mission is to promote
communication for social change based on the belief that communication
is a basic human right that defines people's common humanity.
WACC's priority groups (women, youth, indigenous people,
and people living with disabilities and HIV/AIDS) advance peace
initiatives at all levels of civil society. Thus, WACC wishes to ensure
that communicators from these priority groups are able to attend
Congress 2008, which offers them a platform to share their vision of
conditions that lead to sustainable peace in their communities. Donate now and help send participants from one of the following priority groups to Congress 2008.
The following are examples of priority groups working at the grassroots level. Efforts like these will be strengthened with your contribution to support their participation at Congress 2008.
To support a particular priority group(s) please
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contribution, select the group(s) that you would like to support. Next please click the method of donation**. Please be sure to follow the
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Dispelling prejudices and myths surrounding disability
People with disabilities represent one of the most marginalized groups
in society, especially in the global South, where opportunities to
express their views and concerns are often restricted. Supporting
participation in Congress 2008 enables them to meet on equal terms
with a wide range of people from all over the world, to share
information about their work and to explore new possibilities for
cooperation.
Congress 2008 will focus on communication rights, a key issue in
regard to the new UN Convention on the Rights and Dignity of Persons
with Disabilities, which stresses the need for better access to
information, using sign language in official interactions, and
encouraging the mass media and Internet providers to make their
services more accessible.
Furthering this goal is the WACC supported project ‘Minuto da
Inclusão’ (Minute of Inclusion), a radio programme made
by people with disabilities in São Paulo, launched in May 2007
was initially broadcast on four regional radio stations. Eight months
later the one-minute programme was being picked up on 12 more
community and private radios stations in several regions of Brazil as
well as on two Internet stations.
Produced by a small team with the support of three interns from the
Methodist University of São Paulo (potentially to be distributed by
300 small radio stations in Brazil’s hinterlands), Minuto da Inclusão
is a social movement covering the challenges and difficulties of
people with disabilities in Brazil.
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