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The webinar “Rooting out gender cyberviolence: An introduction to social media monitoring” on 8 December will give WCC member churches and partners the opportunity to take action against the harmful—and growing—phenomenon of online gender-based violence.

When Rekiatu Musa Jingi, an investigative journalist and human rights advocate in Cameroon, shares her learnings about reporting on migrants, she’s speaking from both her heart and her mind: “I learned how to get and how to conduct great interviews and how to take good pictures and videos without victimizing anybody.”

In short, she added, “Words matter.”

Do you love languages? Do you believe that everyone should be able to use their own language to share and access knowledge and information, and share their concerns — online and offline? And are you willing to share your translation skills to help bridge the internet's linguistic divide? 

If you do, we invite you to join and volunteer your translation skills to the "100 Languages in 100 Days Challenge."

A roundtable hosted by the World Council of Churches and the World Association for Christian Communication released a message on 8 March that addresses the role of media in a world striving for gender equality.

The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) and the Christian Broadcasting Service of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon have partnered to help promote a more positive attitude and counter hate narratives toward migrants in Douala, Cameroon’s economic capital.

The fruits of a September symposium on “Communication for Social Justice in a Digital Age” are being shared globally—with an invitation to contribute to an action plan for steps on the way to digital justice.

In ihrem Entwurf eines „Manifestes über die Kommunikation für soziale Gerechtigkeit im digitalen Zeitalter“ zeichnen die Teilnehmenden an dem Internationalen Symposium ein Bild des aktuellen globalen Kontextes, beschreiben Probleme und Herausforderungen sowie Grundsätze zur Förderung einer sozial gerechten Kommunikation und rufen zu einer „transformativen Bewegung“ auf der Grundlage von Menschenrechten, Menschenwürde und demokratischen Prinzipien auf. 

Als am 15. September ein Symposium über digitale Gerechtigkeit zu Ende ging, wägten die Teilnehmenden ihre Visionen für die Zukunft in einer von Ungerechtigkeit geprägten Umwelt ab. Tatsächlich sind alle Teilnehmenden des Symposiums - ob Theologen, Kirchenführerinnen, Politiker, Studierende, Journalistinnen oder professionelle Kommunikatoren - „digitale Kommunikatoren“. Diese breite Auswahl an Menschen, denen das Thema am Herzen liegt, erarbeitete aufgrund ihrer gemeinsamen Überlegungen Empfehlungen, die ihrer Meinung nach der Welt helfen können.

In a draft “Manifesto for Communication for Social Justice in a Digital Age,” participants at an international symposium on digital justice collectively offer a view of the current global context, a look at issues and challenges, principles to promote socially just communication and a call for a “transformative movement” founded on human rights, human dignity, and democratic principles.

As a symposium on digital justice drew to a close on 15 September, participants  were weighing their vision for the future in a landscape fraught with injustice. Those taking part in the symposium—be they theologians, church leaders, politicians, students, journalists or professional communicators—are all in fact, “digital communicators,” and this broad array of people who care worked to hone their collective thoughts into recommendations they believe can help the world.

Online und vor Ort nahmen die Teilnehmenden eines Symposiums, das die Herausforderungen und Chancen für eine gerechtere digitale Zukunft erörterte, an einer lebhaften Diskussion teil zur Frage, wie das digitale Zeitalter das Verständnis des öffentlichen Raums verändert hat.