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addressed communication rights from four perspectives: (1) communication rights of all people; (2) communication rights of people with communication disabilities; (3) communication rights of children and (4) communication rights relating to language. The Universal Declaration of Communication Rights (International Communication Project, 2014) has been signed by over 10 000 people and states: "We recognise that the ability to communicate is a basic human right. We recognise that everyone has the potential to communicate. By putting our names to this declaration, we give our support to the millions of people around the world who have communication disorders that prevent them from experiencing fulfilling lives and participating equally and fully in their communities. We believe that people with communication disabilities should have access to the support they need to realise their full potential."
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innovations that included the Internet, the World Wide Web, search engines, availability of personal computers, and social networking. As more people participated in interactive communication and the many challenges it raised in regard to such communication rights as free of speech, privacy, and freedom of information, they began to develop a growing consciousness of the importance of such rights to their ability to communicate.
147:, a pioneer in French and European television in the 1950s and by 1969 Director of the United Nations Radio and Visual Services Division, where he was involved in international policy discussions arising out of the recent innovations in satellite global communications. He recognized that the communication rights relating to freedom of expression embodied in the U. N. 22: 276:, the technological innovations in interactive electronic, global communication of recent decades are seen by others as challenging the traditional mass media structures and formulations of communication rights values arising from them, thereby renewing the need to re-consider the need for a right to communicate. 151:(UDHR) adopted in 1948 would need to be re-examined in the context of global, interactive communication between individuals and communities. He called for the need for the recognition of a human right to communicate that would encompass earlier established rights. He thus was the first to link communication and 268:(NWICO) debate, thus, efforts within UNESCO to formulate such a right were abandoned. The latter emphasizes the fact that an array of international rights underpinning communication already exists, but many are too often ignored and require active mobilisation and assertion. While some, especially within the 197:
More recently, the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology published a special issue on communication rights stating "Communication rights address both “freedom of opinion and expression” and rights and freedoms “without distinction of 
 language” (United Nations, 1948)" The special issue
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for achieving its ultimate goal - they are necessary interlocking blocks in the struggle to achieve communication rights. Action can be coherently pursued under, each, often in collaboration with other social actors concerned with the area more generally; while bridges can and must be built to the
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debate, and points to the need for a formal legal acknowledgment of such a right, as an overall framework for more effective implementation. The latter emphasizes the fact that an array of international rights underpinning communication already exists, but many are often ignored and require active
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A result of this growing communicative consciousness is a renewed research interest in and political advocacy for a right to communicate (see references). From the 1990s onwards, NGOs and activists became increasingly active in a variety of communication issues, from community media, to language
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Interest in the right to communicate languished during the 1980s as there was no mass movement to promote it for the simple reason few people had direct experience with interactive communication over global electronic networks. This situation changed dramatically in the 1990s with a cluster of
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rights, to copyright, to Internet provision and free and open source software. These coalesced in a number of umbrella groups tackling inter-related issues from which the pluralistic notion of communication rights began to take shape, this time from the ground up.
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The first broad-based debate on media and communication globally, limited mainly to governments, ran for a decade from the mid-1970s. Governments of the South, by then a majority in the UN, began voicing demands in
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A ‘right to communicate’ and ‘communication rights’ are closely related, but not identical, in their history and usage. In the Cold War tensions of the 1970s and 1980s, the former became associated with the
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Each Pillar relates to a different domain of social existence, experience and practice, in which communication is a core activity and performs key functions. The rational [
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Mulcair, G., Pietranton, A. A., & Williams, C. (2018). The International Communication Project: Raising global awareness of communication as a human right.
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A "right to communicate" and "communication rights" are closely related, but not identical. The former is more associated with the
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human rights. His call was taken up by academics, policy experts, and public servants who evolved into the
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that states a Knowledge (XXG) editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic.
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Communication Rights and Social Justice: Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations
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The right to communicate: Historical hopes, global debates, and future premises.
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The right to communicate: Historical hopes, global debates, and future premises
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Media divides: Communication rights and the right to communicate in Canada.
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McLeod, S. (2018). Communication rights: Fundamental human rights for all.
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Media Divides: Communication rights and the right to communicate in Canada
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Dakroury, Aiaa., Eid Mahmoud, & Yahya R. Kamalipour, (Eds.), (2009).
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Reports and Papers on Mass Communication, n° 94. Paris: Unesco, 1982.
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sector, still see the right to communicate as a "code word" for state
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The Right to communicate: Past mistakes and future possibilities.
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These issues are explored more fully in Raboy's and Shtern's
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The concept of the right to communicate began in 1969 with
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McIver, W. Jr., Birdsall, W., & Rasmussen, M. (2003).
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and media control, participation in one's own culture,
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personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay
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freedom of opinion
expression
democratic
media
governance
media ownership
linguistic rights
rights to education
privacy
assemble
self-determination
inclusion and exclusion
accessibility
New World Information and Communication Order
Jean D’Arcy
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Right to Communicate Group
UNESCO
media concentration
cultural imperialism
World Association for Christian Communication
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New World Information and Communication Order
mass media
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