Communication is a fundamental activity of human beings, individually and in society.
It is essential to democratic life at all levels, as it is to any process of development. The right to communicate is seriously undermined by the workings as well as the structures and dominant models of communications systems. Inequality of access to the means of production and dissemination exist between the North and the South but also within each country, in the North as well as in the South. The International Coalition for Democratic Communication known as Videazimut is composed of organizations and individuals using video and television as a means to the democratisation of communications. The Coalition is dedicated to defending and broadening access to voice and image for all those who are presently marginalised from them, in the South and in the North.