Showing posts with label Queen Rania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queen Rania. Show all posts

March 4, 2009

AWARDS / ARTICLES: In Amman, UNICEF regional media awards honour coverage of adolescents

In Amman, UNICEF regional media awards honour coverage of adolescents

AMMAN, Jordan, 2 March 2009 – The first UNICEF Regional Awards for Media on Child Rights were handed out last week at an official ceremony in Amman, under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, UNICEF’s Eminent Advocate for children.

UNICEF Regional Director Sigrid Kaag thanked Queen Rania for supporting the event. Ms. Kaag emphasized the media’s important role in coverage of child and adolescents rights, noting that ‘adolescence’ was the theme of this year’s media awards.

Adolescence is an age of transition, questioning and many apparent contradictions, she said, and covering it is a special challenge for the media.

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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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