February 27, 2009

AWARDS: The first UNICEF Regional Awards for Media on Child Rights (MENA - Middle East and North Africa)

The first UNICEF Regional Awards for Media on Child Rights held on February 25

The first UNICEF Regional Awards for Media on Child Rights were handed on February 25th in an official ceremony in Amman, under the patronage of her Majesty Queen Rania al-Abdullah First Eminent Advocate for children.

UNICEF regional director Ms. Sigrid Kaag thanked her Majesty Queen Rania al-Abdullah for attending and lending patronage to this event and emphasized the importance of media's role in covering issues related to children and adolescents and their rights, which was the purpose for choosing 'adolescence' as the award subject for this year.

In her speech, Ms. Kaag said that adolescence was an age of transition, of questioning, of strong conviction and self-doubt; of make or break, an age of apparent contradictions which makes writing about them a special challenge.

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