OneMinutesJr videos on child rights, Part 1 of 4

EVENTS: Protecting the rights of children: the role of the Media Thursday

13 February 2014 from 16:30 to 18:30 (GMT), London, United Kingdom

You are cordially invited to join a debate on the coverage of the rights of the children in the media led by Veronica Yates, Director of the Child Rights International Network (CRIN) and Shakuntala Banaji, Programme Director in Media, Communication and Development at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Internews Europe will present its research project assessing the role played by media in protecting and promoting child rights, undertaken with support from the IKEA foundation.

Concrete plans to strengthen the media in reporting on children's rights, by addressing specifically the lack of child-led and high-quality information available to the media, citizens and policy-makers, will be shared during the event.

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NEWS / AWARDS: Little girl’s struggles wins 2013 Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award

The heart-rending story of a small girl's struggle in a Manila slum has won this year's Asia-Pacific Child Rights Awards for broadcasting.

Reel Time: Bone Dry, a documentary by GMA Network, spotlights child malnutrition in the Philippines, where two in ten children are undernourished. 

Filmed in the Tondo district, one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the country, the documentary tells the story of Mary Rose, a 10-year-old whose height and weight are those of a five-year old child. She lives with her five siblings, who have all been diagnosed as severely malnourished.

The award, created by the ABU, UNICEF and the CASBAA media association in 2001, is given annually to the best television program produced in the Asia-Pacific with a focus on children's rights. It is being presented on 24 October during the CASBAA Convention in Hong Kong.

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ARTICLES / TRAINING: Journalists attend child abuse workshop

Journalists play a big role in the protection of children’s rights, especially now that cases of child abuse are rampant. Television, radio, and newspaper journalists have been encouraged to do more in highlighting challenges faced by children across the country, hence fast track solutions.

A group of journalists specialised in children stories recently attended a workshop organised by Panos East Africa Media Agency for Child Protection at a Nairobi hotel.

Speaking at the event, Thorn Mulli of Generation Next, urged the journalists drawn from different media houses to use the opportunity to serve the children’s interests.

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AWARDS: Kara David, I-Witness receive UNICEF prize in Korea

GMA Network television host Kara David and her "I-Witness" team received the prestigious UNICEF Child Rights Award this week at the Asia Broadcasting Union awards ceremony in Seoul, Korea for the documentary "Alkansya."

GMA News TV will show the“Alkansya” I-Witness documentary in a special, primetime airing on October 27, Saturday, at 10:00 p.m. on Channel 11.  

David’s “Alkansya” stood out from over 40 entries from the Asia and Pacific region as the besttelevision documentary on children’s rights. 

“Alkansya” tells the story of Anthony, a 12-year old boy from Eastern Samar who has to dive for sea cucumbers everyday. 

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CHILD RIGHTS: HRC targets homes, schools to reinforce children’s rights

JEDDAH — The Human Rights Commission (HRC) in Makkah region will start a campaign against child abuse in the Kingdom soon.

The campaign will target homes and schools, said Ebrahim Al-Nehayani from HRC's Makkah region branch.

Al-Nehayani was speaking on the sideline of a two-day seminar on children's' rights at Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry Saturday.

full article on the Saudi Gazette website

NEWS: Feature: Children’s Month celebration underscores media role in protecting children’s rights (PHILIPPINES)

This year's Children's Month celebration in October underscores the important role media plays in protecting the rights of children. 

Department of Social Welfare and Development Regional Director Leticia Diokno said that in celebrating the 20th Anniversary of National Children's Month, the agencies and local government units are guided by the theme, "Bright Child ay Siguraduhin, Responsableng Pamamahayag ay Palaganapin!" 

The celebration, Diokno said, aims to promote and protect the physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual, and social well-being of the Filipino children. Likewise, this year's celebration intends to emphasize the role of media in protecting the children's rights.

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SOCIAL MEDIA: Social media used by youth to air social concerns

NEW DELHI: Is it okay for your boyfriend to know your email password and check your mails or for your girlfriend to track your SMSes and screen your friends?

Taking a different perspective on gender violence in a youngster's everyday life, 'Must Bol' - a by the youth, for the youth campaign - is creating ripples in Delhi's youth circuit. Started in December 2010, and having entered the virtual world the very next month, the campaign has hit an instant cord with the youngsters because of the relevance of the issues and the non-preachy manner in which messages are being put across.

full article on the Times of India website

Implementation of the Safer Social Networking Principles for the EU

OPPORTUNITIES: Course on reporting about children offered [South Africa]

Journalists interested in reporting about children can attend a course in Johannesburg.

The 10-day course, offered by the University of Witwatersrand, aims to give participants knowledge and skills in children’s rights, ethics and the law surrounding reporting on children.

The course will give participants access experts in a wide field, help them write clearly on children’s issues, strengthen writing skills and identify the effect that poor media coverage of children can have. Participants are required to attend all seminars and contribute to class discussions.

The course will take place from July 4 to 8 and from July 18 to July 22, 2011.

For more information, contact journinfo@wits.ac.za or click here.

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SOCIAL MEDIA: Kids and Social Media: Guidance for Parents

(HealthNewsDigest.com) - As many who were children before the era of cell phones will remember, contacting a friend by phone often involved mastering at least the following script: “Hi, Mrs. Doe. Is Johnny home?” Not so today, in the world of cell phones, texting, email, Facebook, and Twitter.

If you are a parent and don’t use or understand the new technologies, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has just issued a guideline saying that you probably should. More than half of teens connect to a social media site at least daily. Three-quarters have cell phones that they can use for social networking as well as texting. In a guideline published in March, the AAP makes the important (if obvious) point that today’s children are growing up on the Internet. Since children and adolescents now spend a great deal of time there, parents have good reasons to know what the place is like.

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AWARDS / OPPORTUNITIES: Child Rights Award 2011: A call to broadcasters

Child Rights Award 2011: A call to broadcasters

The 11^th Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award is now open. The ABU, CASBAA and UNICEF are now inviting broadcasters and producers in the region to submit entries for the Award.

Programmes both for children and about children are eligible and can cover any children’s rights issue. Entries can include documentaries that detail the plight of children, dramas that help break down stereotypes and discrimination, or animation that teaches and entertains.

Entries must have been broadcast between June 2010 and May 2011 and must be received by 15 June 2011. The Award will be presented during the CASBAA Convention in Hong Kong in early November. The winner will be flown there for the ceremony.

Eligible Countries include:

Afghanistan, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, DPR Korea, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Republic of Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lao PDR, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Thailand, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu and Viet Nam

Remarks: This competition is open to all ABU and CASBAA members.

For more information, please visit www.childrightsaward.org or contact kjirathun@unicef.org. Details on the Convention on the Rights of the Child can be found at www.unicef.org/crc.

Note to editors:

ORGANISERS

Asia–Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)

ABU is a non-profit, non-government, professional association of broadcasting organizations, formed in 1964 to facilitate the development of broadcasting in the Asia–Pacific region. It provides a forum for promoting the collective interests of television and radio broadcasters and engages in activities to encourage regional and international cooperation between broadcasters. It currently has more than 200 members in 58 countries. It organizes many activities and projects to promote excellence in broadcasting and to improve programming, skills and technologies of its members, including the ABU Children's TV Programme Item Exchange.

www.abu.org.my

CASBAA

CASBAA is the Association for digital multichannel television, content, platforms, advertising and video delivery across Asia. The mission of CASBAA is to promote the growth of pay-TV and video content through industry information, networking exchanges and events while promoting global best practices. These interests cover 16 geographic markets, which in turn serve more than 360 million pay-TV homes falling under a footprint which runs from China to Australasia, Japan to Pakistan.

www.casbaa.com

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

UNICEF is on the ground in over 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. For more information about

UNICEF East Asia and Pacific: www.unicef.org/eapro

UNICEF South Asia: www.unicef.org/rosa

For further information, please contact:

Anom Sani: ABU (Kuala Lumpur), + 603 2282-3592, anom@abu.org.my

Adela Chen: CASBAA (Hong Kong), +852 3929 1711,

adela@casbaa.com

Kritsada Jirathun: UNICEF (Bangkok), +66 2 356 92 49
kjirathun@unicef.org

ARTICLES: 'The Media Must Stop Violating Us' - Children (SOUTH AFRICA)

In a special submission to the Press Council this week, children spoke of how the news media further perpetuates the abuse and violation of children's rights.

Two primary school children, just one year short of being teen-agers, braved the small crowd of adults at Wits University to speak on behalf of fellow South African children. Their presentation at the start of hearings by the Press Council of South Africa highlighted the mistakes done by the media when covering children who have been abused, raped, harmed physically, emotionally, and so on. Citing examples but not naming where the stories originated from, the children decried a tendency in some media to expose the identity of children who have suffered abuse.

"They took a picture, but they blurred it. But they mentioned the child's father and mother, which indirectly if you know the child, you know that it's him or her. That's one of the examples of abuse", said Brendan Molotsi, a Grade Seven leaner at Park Senior Primary School, in Johannesburg.

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NEWS / WEBSITES: Website backs children's rights

An online initiative launched yesterday is hoping its use of social media will raise awareness among children and youths of their human rights.

Wendy Craig, a psychology professor at Queen's University and the co-director of Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence (PREVNet), is one of the co-directors of the collaboration between PREVNet, UNICEF Canada, the Public Health Agenc y of Canada and MyHealth Magazine.

The project has created a website, www.childandyouthrights. net, that interested youths can visit.

"It's really a way of helping kids understand what their rights are and then providing them with resources about where they can go to ensure those rights and needs are met," Craig said.

It also contains articles about children's rights written from a different perspective.

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AWARDS / OPPORTUNITIES: UNICEF Yemen announces regional media award 2011 on child rights

SANA’A, Jan. 30 (Saba)- UNICEF Yemen Country Office is motivating media representatives and Adolescents in the country to participate in the Regional Media Award 2011 on Child Rights in which the theme of this year is: “Violence against children”.

In its press release, UNICEF Yemen Office said on Sunday that it is welcoming submissions from interested participants in the Regional Media Award.

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NEWS / EVENTS: Child rights and the media (PAKISTAN)

PESHAWAR: Speakers at a workshop on child rights said Thursday the media could play an important role in raising awareness about children’s rights. The capacity-building workshop on child rights was organised by the Children’s Complaint Office, Peshawar.

“Pakistan is among the countries that signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, but violation of the rights continues and only the mass media can play a positive role in bringing about a change,” said one of the speakers.

Another participant said Article 17 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child recognised the important function performed by the mass media and stressed upon the states to encourage the mass media to disseminate information and material that is of social and cultural benefit for children.

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NEWS / EVENTS: How the media is protecting children’s rights in Georgia

TBILISI, Georgia - 19 November, 2010. On the occasion of the 21st Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child the round-table discussion about reporting on children and media ethics in Georgia was held on 19 November at the Media Frontline Club.

The discussion was led by the prominent Georgian journalists Ia Antadze and Zviad Koridze who highlighted major areas of concern in regard to child-friendly reporting and brought the specific examples from the local media. The audience included active journalists, heads of newsrooms, editors, representatives of the public defenders' office, media associations and international organizations, university teachers and students.

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NEWS / AWARDS: Five Nation journalists win awards

Five Nation Media Group journalists were among 13 people awarded during the 2nd Children’s Rights Media Awards gala night at the Intercontinental Hotel on Saturday night.

NTV news anchor Linda Ogutu was crowned “Journalist of the year” for her entry on sanitary rescue.

Rose Wangui scooped two awards, the most educative features and features articles with the “Undying Quest” and “Sachangwan Kids”.

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NEWS: UNICEF trains journalists for defense of children (NIGERIA)

Periscope Aug 22, 2010

By Dennis Agbo, Abakaliki

The ‘A’ field office of the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has commenced moves aimed at mobilising journalists in the 10 states of its coverage area in the South East, some states in South-South and Benue towards using their media for advocacy and defence of the children.

In a workshop at Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, the UN agency gathered 20 journalists selected across the coverage area in a three-day intensive workshop to sharpen their skills in the best practice of reporting activities that concern the abuse, welfare and promotion of children’s well being in Nigeria.

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NEWS: Law seeks to stop parents from spying on children (CHINA)

Tue, Jul 27, 2010 - China Daily/Asia News Network

BEIJING - Starting in September, minors in Chongqing in Southwest China will have the legal means to defend themselves against cases of "spying" by their parents.

Under a new regional law aimed to protect the rights of children, parents will be forbidden from secretly searching through children's computers or cell phones for emails, diaries, web chats or short messages.

The regulation, adopted on Friday by the Chongqing local legislature, is the first of its kind anywhere in China, the Chongqing Evening Post reported on Saturday.

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