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Communication rights are a key element of the work of WACC-Latin America |
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Latin American communicators reaffirm commitment to communication rights on the continent
By María Teresa Aveggio, Programme Manager and regional Staff Liaison
Meeting in San Antonio de Escazú, in Costa Rica, 15 - 21 August 2011, members of the Latin American Regional Association of WACC elected a new Regional Executive Committee and made their contribution to WACC’s new Strategic Plan.
Well known Bolivian communicator and communication rights advocate, José Luis Aguirre, was elected as the new regional president, while Vilma Peña of Costa Rica was elected vice president and Marcela Gabioud of Argentina was elected secretary. Eloy Teckemeier, director of Editora Sinodal in Brazil, was elected regional treasurer and Carlos Leon Ramos of El Salvador is the committee’s member at large.
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From left to right: José Luis Aguirre (president), Marcela Gabioud (secretary),
Eloy Teckemeier (treasurer), Vilma Peña (vice president) and Carlos Leon Ramos (member) |
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As their contribution to WACC’s Strategic Planning, the assembly and new committee reaffirmed that communication rights must be a key element in the work of the WACC-Latin America Regional Association. They further reaffirmed that Communication rights must be acknowledged in the most inclusive way possible and implemented to recover the vocation to build community. The Committee acknowledged that with emerging technological advances the search for equitable access to communication must be more than just a mere promise.
As part of their work plan for the next three years, WACC-Latin America has committed itself to advocate among the region’s governments so that they facilitate the setting up of judicial frameworks that protect and make viable media pluralism. The region has also committed to promoting analysis and proposals aimed at establishing public policies regarding inclusive and pluralistic media.
The Regional Assembly was preceded by the international seminar on the theme ‘Communication as a guarantor of people’s communication rights’ attended by international as well as national communicators from nearly all Latin American countries.
For more information please visit http://latin-america.waccglobal.org/ |
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