by Saskia Rowley | Aug 9, 2021 | Communication Rights
By targeting monuments that celebrate historic figures who actively contributed to institutional racism and the oppression of marginalised peoples, Black Lives Matter and others have implicitly questioned the way collective memory is fashioned. Protests of this kind...
by Saskia Rowley | Oct 5, 2020 | Communication Rights
Since the emergence of the communication rights movements in the 1980s, activists have advanced a vision of the right to communicate as a highly political enterprise. The main idea at the heart of the movement has always been that democratizing media and communication...
by Saskia Rowley | Jul 20, 2020 | Communication Rights
In times of disaster, the need to engage with affected communities to ensure useful, timely and accurate information is mutually shared is increasingly recognised as essential. As the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)...