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Please refer also to the new UNICEF video productions catalogue, which lists the most recent productions. (Webmasters: please change links to point to the new catalogue.) The productions listed below are still available.

UNICEF Videos

• The State of the World's Children
• Co-productions
• Child rights 
• Child survival and development
• Children in need of special 

protection measures
• Children in Africa
• Environment, water and sanitation
• Programmes for children
• Animation
• UNICEF Past and Present
• Public service announcement spots
• Global Movement for Children

The State of  the 
World's Children

The State of the World’s Children videos accompany the report published every December 

and include timely news leads, statements by UNICEF’s Executive Director and B-roll footage.

The State of the World’s Children 2000
Production Year:1999 
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Natural sound bites without music or effects.
Item Code: 327G

The State of the World’s Children 2000 video examines the situation of children at the beginning of the new century as a mirror of our times—times of exploitation, of conflict, of suffering. Despite remarkable progress in child survival, the human rights of children are still violated around the globe every day. Advocacy and education are the key elements in restoring normalcy to these children’s lives: The video features children and adults combating child poverty in India, overcoming the scars of armed conflict in Sierra Leone, and educating youth about the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Zambia.
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The State of the World’s Children 1999
Production Year: 1998
Length: 26 minutes
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Natural sound bites without music or effects.
Item Code: 327F

Over 100 million children in poorer nations—most of them girls—are still denied their right to a basic education. The 1999 video focuses on the complex causes of this situation, and the mobilization efforts now underway in Bangladesh, Brazil, Nepal, Yemen and Zambia to make quality education a reality for all children.
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The State of the World’s Children 1998
Production Year: 1997
Length: 26 minutes
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 327E

The State of the World’s Children report consists of succinct video news items that accompany the report published every December. Each year’s video report includes short stories for timely news leads, statements by UNICEF’s Executive Director and B-roll footage. The State of the World’s Children 1998 report is a compelling exploration of malnutrition’s impact on the lives of women and children. Sequences include a portrait of Bangladesh’s struggle to reduce its high malnutrition rates; a promising research study in Nepal to save pregnant women’s lives by providing them with Vitamin A supplements; the impact of iodine deficiency in China and the Ukraine, and Bolivia’s success in combating iodine deficiency disorders; and community nutrition projects in Tanzania and Niger where women are playing a vital role.
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The State of the World’s Children 1997
Production Year: 1996
Length: 29 minutes 
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Natural sound bites without music or effects.
Item Code: 327D

The State of the World’s Children report consists of succinct video news items that accompany the report published every December. Each year’s video report includes short stories for timely news leads, statements by UNICEF’s Executive Director and B-roll footage. The State of the World’s Children 1997 report calls for an immediate end to hazardous and exploitative child labour. Featured are testimonials from working children—bonded child labourers in India’s beedi (cigarette) industry, street beggars in Senegal and underage garment workers in Bangladesh—that illustrate the appalling conditions faced by millions of children each day. 
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The State of the World’s Children 1996
Production Year: 1995
Length: 29 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Natural sound bites without music or effects.
Item Code: 327C

The State of the World’s Children report consists of succinct video news items that accompany the report published every December. Each year’s video report includes short stories for timely news leads, statements by UNICEF’s Executive Director and B-roll footage. The 1996 report looks back from UNICEF’s founding 50 years ago in the aftermath of the Second World War, to the effects of war on the world’s children in the 1990s. UNICEF’s evolution from an organization founded to deal with the needs of children in Europe to the development agency it is today is also examined.
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The State of the World’s Children 1995
Production Year: 1994
Length: 21 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Natural sound bites without music or effects.
Item Code: 327B

Stories on individuals, families and communities from China, Peru, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan and Viet Nam show the goals reached in mid-decade for children and the efforts required to meet the World Summit for Children goals by the year 2000.
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The State of the World’s Children 1994
Production Year: 1993
Length: 21 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Natural sound bites without music or effects.
Item Code: 327A

By tackling problems facing children worldwide — malnutrition, disease and illiteracy — we can make progress towards eliminating poverty, over-population and environmental degradation. Stories from El Salvador, India, Mozambique and Tanzania.
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Co-Productions

Danmarks Radio (TV)

Working with Danmarks Radio, DANIDA (the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs agency for international development and co-operation) and UNICEF, Danish film-maker Frode Pedersen has produced a panorama of stories on children’s issues from around the world, based on real life stories of children.

Citizen 2000
Production Year: 1999
Length: 26 minutes
Language: English, International
Item Code: 354

40 million children are born each year without a birth certificate, depriving them of access to education and hope for the future. This docudrama concerns Renato, an orphaned child living on the streets. Abandoned by his father at birth, later losing his mother to a street fight, Renato is forced to scramble for a living and dreams of a better life. In his struggle to break the cycle of homeless poverty, he discovers he is one of the fortunate few who was born in a hospital. Renato then  relentlessy searches for his birth certificate so that he can at last register for school at the age of twelve.
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Dream Girls
Production Year: 1996
Length: 26 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 311

This documentary follows 11-year-old Tatiana.  When her father was taken to prison, she ran away to live on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But rather than make a living through prostitution, Tatiana chooses her own way of coping.
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They Call Me Dog
Production Year: 1995
Length: 26 minutes
Language: English, International
Item Code: 307

Haiti’s 250,000 forgotten children aged 5 to15—three quarters of them girls—are forced into unpaid servitude through family poverty and work as domestics in middle-class homes. The majority cannot read or write. These children, despite their bondage, find ways to change their lives, and UNICEF reaches out to assist them.
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Tomorrow We Will Finish
Production Year: 1994
Length: 26 minutes
Language: English, International
Item Code: 304

More than 150,000 girls between the ages of 5 and 16 are employed by the 2,000 carpet factories in Nepal. The stories dramatized in this programme are based on cases compiled by Child Workers in Nepal (a children’s labour organization). We follow the lives of three girls, Suri, Tama and Maya, who are forced by poverty to work in a carpet factory 16 hours a day and are denied their rights as children.
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One Way to Paradise
Production Year: 1998
Length: 27 minutes
Language: English, International
Item Code: 353

For many years, the paradise island of Sri Lanka has been the site of ethnic conflict. This docudrama follows a 15-year-old Tamil boy, Sivaji, who unwillingly becomes involved in violence and is forced to flee his country. Intended for audiences aged 12 and over.
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Soldier Boy
Production Year: 1997
Length: 26 minutes
Language: English, International
Item Code: 334

In Liberia, thousands of children are forced to fight as soldiers in a civil war that has been raging since 1989. This docudrama profiles 13-year-old Mike who, when driven by the militia to join the army, tries to slip away after one bloody assault. But boy soldiers who have escaped are often rejected by their relatives because they have ‘blood on their hands’. Until peace returns, he will have to fend for himself.
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Norwegian Television and TVE

Across Africa, the odds are dramatically against girls getting an education. Even if they do attend primary school, they’re often withdrawn before they finish. To try to reverse this trend, UNICEF launched its Girls’ Education Programme in 1995. Daughters of Africa, a new co-production from Norwegian Television and TVE, looks at how the programme is measuring up in the following four films.

Daughters of Africa:

Zimbabwe
Production Year: 1999
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Item Code: 356A

Thirteen-year old Shamiso lives with her parents on El Dorado Farm, a large scale commercial farm (LSCF) hundreds of kilometres from the capital, Harare. Like most farm workers, she works alongside her father and mother in the tobacco fields?the farmer doesn’t put up with anything less than total dedication from his labour force. But Shamiso has ambitions. Encouraged by the estate foreman, she started attending the primary school 15 kilometres away when she was 10. But will she be allowed to finish?
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Benin
Production Year: 1999
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Item Code: 356B

Vidomegon is the name given to 10 - 14-year-old children in Benin who have been given away  — ‘placed’ as domestic servants with host families by their parents who cannot afford to continue looking after them. With no fixed hours, they are expected to undertake heavy work, suffer from poor nutrition and frequent physical, emotional and sexual abuse. But a new programme in Benin is providing informal education at Basic Education Centres for some of the vidomegon.
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Uganda
Production Year: 1999
Length:
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Item Code: 356C

In Uganda, 1.2 million children have lost one or both parents. When parents have died, and children are raised in child-headed families, or by grandparents, there is little chance of an education for girls. But the government is backing two new initiatives to help them: under its Universal Primary Education, families can get free schooling for up to four children — as long as at least two of them are girls. And for those who’ve already missed out on primary school, there are new COPE schemes designed to provide informal, flexible education for children already working or who have family responsibilities during normal school hours.
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Senegal
Production Year: 1999
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Item Code: 356D

Three quarters of Senegal’s children don’t attend school. Of these, over 60 per cent are girls. Child labour is common, and girls as young as nine work as illiterate, domestic servants in the capital city, Dakar. But with support from UNICEF, Tostan — a US NGO — has developed an informal basic education programme to provide literacy classes to rural women. Tostan also tries to persuade mothers to attend school with their daughters, to acquire the basic knowledge that will help them improve their living conditions — and abandon traditional harmful practices like female genital mutilation.
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Special Broadcasters Group

UNICEF is pleased to announce the formation of a Special Broadcasters Group, drawing together the talents of leading broadcasters from around the world to help children become more effective communicators. Working with the Group, UNICEF uses its network of offices throughout the world to help children who are agents of positive change —children who are making a difference—and films them in their own communities.

Children’s Profiles, described below, is the first collaborative effort of the Special Broadcasters Group, and has been an integral part of UNICEF’s 1999 International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB), held on 12 December. ICDB is a yearly celebration of the enormous creative potential of children everywhere for which more than 2,000 broadcasters produce special broadcasting for, by and about children. Children’s Profiles was broadcast around the globe, alongside local programming on the Day in 1999.

The Special Broadcasters Group consists of:
Namibian Broadcasting Corporation
Qingdao Children’s TV Development Council China
ZDF Germany
Canal J France
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
TV Ontario
TFO Canada
YTV Canada
YLE Finland
TV Cultura Brazil
TVGuayana Venezuela
Latvian Television
News Television India
Jordan Television

Children’s Profiles
Production Year: 1999
Length: 17 video profiles, 4-5 minutes each
63 minutes total
Language: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code: 358

These profiles feature extraordinary teens from around the globe who have become agents for change in their communities—by broadcasting their views on radio and TV, lecturing widely, staging drama productions, publishing comic strips and launching book campaigns. These outspoken youth hope to help not just themselves but also their peers to break out of the vicious circles created by armed conflict, child exploitation, teen pregnancy and HIV/AIDS. Others actively promote racial tolerance and environmental protection. Filmed by the newly-formed Special Broadcasters Group in Namibia, China, Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Finland, Brazil, Venezuela, Latvia, India and Jordan.
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TVE (Television Trust for the Environment)

TVE is a non-profit organization that promotes environment, development, health and child and human rights issues through broadcast television. The videos below were co-produced with UNICEF’s support.

Growing Up
Production Year: 1993
Co-produced with Central Television
& Television Trust for the Environment
Length: 53 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 278A

From the coal-mining hub of Lancashire (United Kingdom), the paper mills of Guangzhou City (China) and the tropical rainforest of the Yanomami people in Venezuela, comes Growing Up, a film about 10 children born within a year of the 1992 ‘Earth Summit’. The story examines how these 10 healthy babies will be affected by the environment and the decisions made at the Summit. Narrated by Roger Moore.
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Growing Up 2
Production Year: 1996
Co-produced with Central Television
& Television Trust for the Environment
Length: 30 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 278B

Growing Up 2 follows the lives of the babies in Growing Up—now four years old—and examines how the environment and human development have affected them, offering an intimate view of global issues and their day-to-day impact.
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When the Bough Breaks
Production Year: 1990
Co-produced with Central Television
& Television Trust for the Environment
Length: 53 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 255

This award-winning documentary examines how children are affected by changes in the environment.
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Earth Report III: Hope & Despair
Production Year: 1999
Co-produced with WWF and Intermediate Technology
Length:  26 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 359

Perestroika has changed the lives of everyone in the former Soviet Union. Earth Report III, aided by UNICEF's International Child Development Centre's recent regional monitoring reports,  examines how these political and economic changes have adversely affected the lives of women and children throughout the former USSR. Basic social services which were once provided by the state are now less readily available. Features stories on declining quality of education, increasing incidence of abandoned children, and collapsing economies and subsequent inflation in Russia, Siberia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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Child Rights Features
Production Year: 1997
Length: 55 minutes
Language: English, International
Item Code: 346

This is a series of nine feature stories on child rights themes co-produced with Television Trust for the Environment and Reuters Television.
Hong Kong: The plight of child refugees
Ghana: Girl slaves of Fetish priests
India: Children’s parliament
Rwanda: Reunification of refugee children
Mongolia: Child victims of parental abuse find refuge in city sewers
Costa Rica: Hands-on environmental training
Nigeria: Girls’ prostitution with oil workers
United States: Youth self-expression in video
Egypt: Blind youth orchestra
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TFO/TVO Canada on child rights

To Tell a Story is a new 13-part series produced by TFO/TVO Canada and UNICEF about child rights. Presented through the voices and lives of children, the series reveals the most poignant problems youth face today: AIDS, child exploitation, children in armed conflict, children at work, children in emergency situations, children and the environment, community participation, education and nutrition.
For broadcast license information contact the Internet, Broadcasting and Image Section (IBIS) 
at UNICEF:
Tel: 212-326-7290 / Fax: 212-326-7731.

A Child’s Got a Right
Production Year: 1998 / 13 episodes
Length: 26 minutes each
Language: English, French, Spanish

345A  A Child’s Got a Right
From the mean streets of New York to the battlefields of war-torn Liberia, from the remote mountain regions of the Philippines to the slums of Nairobi, from the garment factories of Bangladesh to the streets of Brazil, children are working to ensure that their  rights—acknowledged by the Convention on the Rights of the Child are respected. A Child’s Got a Right is a fast-paced introduction to some of the children who will be telling their stories in the programmes to come.
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345B  Freeing the Children
Although children have the right to leisure and play in the developing world, one out of every four children between the ages of five and fourteen works, many for six days a week, nine hours a day. People are mobilizing against child labour around the world as shown in Freeing the Children. Filmed in Bangladesh, Canada, India, Peru, the Philippines and Senegal.
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345CI’m Better Off than I Used to Be
Not all kids have the same chances. I’m Better Off Than I Used to Be shows how simple local initiatives can transform a child’s life. Four children from different parts of the world demonstrate their courage and personal resolve: Sergeant Bill lived on the streets, now he helps others find a way out; a courier company helps abandoned and orphaned children; a soccer league rescues children from drugs, and children living on the streets organize their own hostels. Filmed in Kenya, Mauritania, the Philippines and the Sudan.
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345D A World of Difference
Girls and women are the world’s first educators, health providers, nurturers, feeders of families and major producers of food. Yet in some places they are second-class citizens and even less than that in others. The issues of excision, forced marriages, education and teen pregnancy are seen through the eyes of five very different girls in Burkina Faso, India, Jamaica and Viet Nam.
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345E To Forgive and Forget
Children are especially vulnerable when those who are supposed to protect them fail to do so. In South Africa, Tiny and Lebohang are among the children who survived torture under a repressive regime. In Brazil, children living on the streets organized themselves into a national movement. Stories from Bangladesh, Brazil, Nicaragua, South Africa and the United States.
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345F Moving On
Violence and homelessness affect youth everywhere: from politically sanctioned violence to drug abuse and brutal life on the street. In Canada, two programmes help children on the street. One gets them off it; the other helps those who choose to stay. Stories from Brazil, Canada, Latin America and South Africa.
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345G A Chance to Learn
A child’s right to education is not always honoured. In India, one promising young student is forced to discontinue her studies. Elsewhere, non-formal educational approaches can help. In Jamaica, Miguel once lived on the street; now he writes prize-winning poetry in a special programme designed for homeless youth. And in the Philippines, mobile teachers reach children who live in isolated mountain areas.
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345H Ashes of War
During the past 50 years, there have been more than 150 major wars. During the last decade, an estimated 2 million children were killed and 12 million left homeless. Some were civilians; others, soldiers. Stories of courage and survival from the boys and girls of Angola, Bosnia, Mozambique and Sierra Leone.
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345I Claiming Childhood
This is the story of children who are rediscovering childhood. Lucky, Rosita, Chuchi and Jean are all survivors of war—refugees, landmine casualties, orphans. These children are healing through art therapy, dramatic re-enactments and education. Stories from Central America, Mozambique, the Philippines, Rwanda, and South Africa.
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345J No Holidays for Us
Statistics do not account for the millions of children in invisible, unregistered labour. Countless children toil as domestics and factory workers. Today, groups are responding to the special needs of working children. Idris attends a school for released garment workers. Teaching methods are flexible and take into account the circumstances of working children. Stories from Bangladesh, Haiti and India.
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345K Reaping Hope
This programme deals with malnutrition, iodine deficiency and AIDS. In Kiev, Natasha dreamed of being a singer—but now has thyroid cancer as a result of the radioactive fallout in Chernobyl. In Bangladesh, Asma is the same age as her cousin, yet will always be smaller because of malnutrition-related stunting. Veronica is one of thousands of AIDS orphans in Uganda. Stories from Bangladesh, Uganda, the Ukraine and the United States.
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345L Shattered Lives, Healing Dreams
Millions of children are sexually exploited every year. Addis Ababa has 100,000 prostitutes—more than half are under the age of 18. At a Berlin train station, boys can meet customers in minutes. In the Philippines, some lucky ones are rescued by a local foundation. In Ethiopia, Kabbabush longs to set up her own business where no one would be exploited. Stories from Ethiopia, Germany, Ghana, Nicaragua and the Philippines.
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345M Our Dreams are Your Dreams
In this final programme, children worldwide provide positive examples of solutions to problems facing them today. Stories of empowerment and hope from Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, India, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, the United Kingdom, the United States and Viet Nam.
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YTV/TFO Canada

YTV/TFO Canada are co-producing a new five-part series ‘Jane's Practical Guide to Children's Rights’ to communicate the meaning of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to children ages 7 to 13. Each ten minute episode features specific themes on child rights in diverse cultures from around the globe.
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Jane's Practical Guide to Children's Rights
(in five parts)
Production Year: 1999
Length: 10 minutes each
Language: English, French, International
Item Code: 333

333A Education & Culture
Narrated by a young teen, the programme follows Jane as she explores children’s rights to an education, information and their own cultures.
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333B  Law & Protection
Youth narrator and main character explore children's rights to protection from abuse and exploitation, and to fair justice.
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333C Mental and Physical Well-being
Youth narrator and main character explore children's rights to health, safety and education in diverse contexts.  Available mid-2000.
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333D Family and Community
Youth narrator and main character explore children's rights to identity, family, language and culture.  Available mid-2000.
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333E  Righting our Future:
         The Right to a Name and Nationality
 This 1998 video is designed to help children understand the right to an a name, nationality, identity and self-expression and the protections it provides. We follow two city children as they take their own pictures, are drawn into an exploration of what makes up their identity and learn about what has happened to children—in the Great Lakes region in Africa and in Cambodia—who do not have the protection of a legal identity.
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ZDF Germany

Produced by ZDF German TV Network in assocation with UNICEF, UN and UNFPA, Children without Childhood is a new five-part series on the plight of children world-wide who are denied their childhood. The documentaries focus on the roots to their problems and on ways the world’s adults can solve them.
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Children without Childhood (in five parts)
Production Year: 1999
Length: 43 minutes each
Language: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code: 361
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361A Uganda: The War of the Child Soldiers
by Walter Heinz
Over the last three years, more than 8,000 children have been kidnapped from the northern provinces of Uganda by the 'Lord's Resistance Army', and carried to South Sudan. There they are trained to attack the civilian population, and hunt for children in their provinces alongside the rebels. For about 3,000 minors who either escaped or were released by the rebels, welfare organizations provide needed care in well equipped trauma centers.
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361B India: The Little Slaves
by Uwe Kröger
In India, 100 million children have to work to support their families. Of these, half a million work in carpet factories. Since 1980, more than 30,000 of these children have been set free from the slavery of the carpet bosses, especially by activists of the Indian Rugmark organization who have opened several all-day schools, providing former young knotworkers the chance for a better life.
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361C  Philippines: Angels of the Night
by Christian Sterley
Three years ago, Christian Sterley reported for ZDF the story of three girls from Manila between the ages of 11 and 13 who sell their bodies. About 15,000 children in the Philippine capital are prostitutes. The incredible poverty in the capital's overflowing slums pushed them onto the streets. Apart from prostitution there is no other chance to survive. Has anything changed for Maribell, Evelyn and Rosemary since we met them last time?
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361D  Mexico: Emergency Exit to Paradise
by Stephan Hallmann

For millions of Mexicans the USA stand for a better future. Even minors are among those who risk their lives crossing the heavily-guarded border between the US and Mexico illegally. 12-year-old Juan is one of them and has already been sent back twice by frontier guards. Three million Mexicans live illegally in the USA, their children attending school — all the time hoping they remain beyond the reach of the immigration office. Children Without Childhood will explore the plight of these children from both sides of the border.
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361E   Japan: Failure Forbidden
by Thomas Euting
Kazuo is a very hardworking boy. On Monday and Tuesday he trains his brain, on Wednesday he crams Japanese Art, on Thursday he exercises. Kazuo is four years old. The effort was worth it. He is one of the 100 best pupils who have passed the entrance exams to the strictest primary school in Tokyo, a very important step on his way to the elite university. The competition at school is keen. Failure is prohibited. The pressure causes severe problems for the pupils: aggression, depression, suicide. Japan has begun to realize that this kind of education only produces managers without creativity who cannot measure up to the global standard.
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Child rights

Told entirely through personal testimonials, this video is an intimate and moving portrait of the aspirations, hopes and difficulties faced by children growing up in Bangladesh today. Communicated directly "in our own words," the children probe fundamental child rights issues in a developing country where many of them are forced to work at an early age. Also included are interviews with teenage members of the Child Rights Forum, which edits its own magazine.
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Rights of Passage
Production Year: 1994
Length: 30 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 305

Rights of Passage depicts the hardship and challenges faced by four girls reaching adolescence in Burkina Faso, India, Jamaica and Nicaragua. It presents a sensitive and personal portrayal of their lives and the issues of drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, education discrimination and female genital mutilation, problems that many girls in the world must face.
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The Children’s News Part 1
Production Year: 1994
Length: 26 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code: 303A

This programme looks at how the world’s governments are responding to UNICEF’s call to ratify and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Presented as a ‘video newspaper’, it charts the progress of global ratification since 1990 and focuses on three countries that are taking solid steps to implement the Convention: Bolivia, Norway and Thailand.
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The Children’s News Part 2—
50th Anniversary Special
Production Year: 1995
Length: 30 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code: 303B

From the producers of The Children’s News Part 1, this programme on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child highlights how the people and governments of Bangladesh, Jamaica and Senegal are working to ensure children’s survival, protection and development.
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Rights & Wrongs
Production Year: 1994
Length: 27 minutes
Language: English
Item Code:  306

This video exposes the global abuse of child rights and the horror of the wrongs children suffer daily: child labour, prostitution, hunger, malnutrition and disease. Child soldiers undergo extreme violence—both psychological and physical. Children living on the streets are exploited and often murdered. Girls are routinely denied education and any hope for the future. The  video features interviews with children in crisis in Brazil, India, the United States and Yugoslavia.
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Raised Voices
Production Year: 1993
Length: 30 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 285

The Convention on the Rights of the Child enshrines children’s right to freedom of thought and expression. In this compelling documentary, children and teenagers talk about issues that concern them and how they can act to change the future. In South Africa, children write a charter to present to political leaders. In the us, a teenager with AIDS visits schools to talk to youngsters about the disease. In the United Kingdom, children work with the local council to clean up their environment. And in Brazil, an organization helps legalize children’s rights.
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Keeping the Promise to Children
Production Year: 1993
Length: 21 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 297

At the third anniversary of the 1990 World Summit for Children in 1993, world leaders gathered to renew their commitment to children and gave progress reports on the long-term goals set in 1990. With a focus on mid-decade goals, participants discuss their achievements in increasing immunization, reducing malnutrition and providing primary education for all.
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Ujeli: A Child Bride in Nepal
Production Year: 1992
Length: 59 minutes
Language: English subtitles
Item Code: 270

Ten-year-old Ujeli lives in Nepal with her parents and brother. Against the advice of her teacher and a doctor, who warn about the dangers of early childbearing, Ujeli’s parents arrange for her to get married. Nepal has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, and 40 per cent of the women are married before the age of 14. Marriage at a very young age excludes most women from the school system, and as in Ujeli’s case, children take on adult responsibilities.
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Yearning to Learn: The Ifugao Experience
Production Year: 1992
Length: 17 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 280

For centuries, the Ifugao people of the mountainous Luzon region of the Philippines had no written language. Today, because of their isolation, the Ifugao face enormous difficulties in providing their children with formal education. A scheme to provide mobile teachers helps overcome this hurdle and brings education to even the remotest villages.
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Nakusha: The Unwanted Child
Production Year: 1990
Length: 20 minutes
Language: English, Spanish
Item Code: 262

In India, the girl child is considered a burden and remains uncared for and neglected. The death rate for girls is 40.5 per cent in the first five years of life, and 75 per cent of females are illiterate. Lack of education further perpetuates the cycle of poverty and leads to high infant and maternal mortality rates. Communities and families need to understand that girls have the right to education, health and happiness.
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The Rights of the Child
Production Year: 1989
Length: 22 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 237

In 1959, the United Nations published a declaration that recognized that all children had the same basic rights. Thirty years later the Convention on the Rights of the Child was forged, giving these rights legal force, and is now ratified by nearly every country in the world. The video presents the global violation of children’s human rights and explains the survival, protection and development rights set out in the Convention. Narrated by Lord Attenborough.
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What to Do?
Production Year: 1989
Length: 12 minutes
Language: Non-verbal
Item Code: 235

Produced in what was then Czechoslovakia by Bretislav Pojar, this animated film depicts a group of children playing a computer game. After viewing children on the computer screen whose rights have been violated, the children playing the game reprogramme their computer and project children in a positive way.
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See also:
Child Rights Features
To Tell a Story
 

Child survival and development

This 10-minute production vividly portrays the successes the world has achieved in improving child survival and combating gender discrimination during the past decade. But it is also a reminder of the extraordinary risks children and young people face in the age of AIDS at the beginning of the 21st century. The video is a powerful advocacy tool in support of a new agenda for children. Includes footage of children at risk from Asia, Africa and
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
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Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)

1)  [AIDS] Prevention in the 
Yunnan Province, China
China has traditionally viewed AIDS as a foreign problem, but now recognizes the need to educate its population, especially young people. Nearly three quarters of the country’s known cases of AIDS occur in Yunnan Province, and this video explores efforts to curb its spread.
2) Soul City TV Show in South Africa [AIDS]
This video features actors, producers and cameramen in Johannesburg filming a segment of Soul City, South Africa’s number-one tv show based on real-life solutions and broadcast to some 18 million South Africans.
3)  [AIDS] Zimbabwe’s School-Based 
Life Skills Programme
Almost 20 per cent of Zimbabwe’s adult population is now infected with HIV. By educating children about relationships from an early age, educators hope they will grow up to lead long and healthy lives. Featured is the life skills curriculum and school books designed by UNICEF that are part of a government programme (with NGOs) to combat AIDS.
4) In Honduras: 
[AIDS] Awareness through Football
In Honduras a local organization raises awareness about HIV and AIDS through an educational theatre game called Let’s score a goal against AIDS that shows how HIV spreads from person to person and describes prevention measures.
5)  Thailand’s Children Orphaned by AIDS
UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy tells us that by the year 2000 there will be nearly 90,000 children whose mothers have died of AIDS in Thailand. Children orphaned by AIDS discuss what they have gone through to survive.
6)   Romania AIDS [Orphans]
Explores the appalling conditions of Romania’s AIDS orphans and ways of helping them. Newly founded foster care systems reintegrate these children into society and return those once abandoned by their families back home.
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The Orphan Generation
Production Year: 1992
Length: 42 minutes
Language: English, French
Item Code:  263

In many African countries a generation of AIDS orphans is growing up without parental guidance. In Uganda’s Rakai District at least 30,000 children—one in every eight—are orphans. Featured are community efforts to care for them.
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A Lesson in Survival
Production Year: 1989
Length: 14 minutes
Language: English
Item Code:  229

Because the mass media in Uganda reaches only 15 per cent of the population, Uganda converted its school system into a teaching machine to slow the spread of AIDS.
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Breastfeeding

1) Learning to be Baby-Friendly: 
    One Hospital’s Experience
This video investigates the success of the baby-friendly initiative at a US hospital. The experiences of parents and staff learning breastfeeding techniques are described. 29 minutes
2) Kingston General Hospital: 
     Becoming Baby-Friendly
A multinational team discusses the 10-step breastfeeding policy developed by UNICEF and WHO to establish baby-friendly hospitals around the world. 22 minutes
3) Investing in the Future: 
      Women, Work and Breastfeeding
Programmes in Kenya and the US show that paid employment and breastfeeding are compatible. There is a 35 per cent reduction in health-related problems, higher productivity on the job and greater emotional well-being of mother and child. 17 minutes
4)  Breast for Babies 
Can be ordered separately as programme #329
Also available in French and Spanish
An excellent breastfeeding training tape for health professionals emphasizing all aspects of lactation management. Filmed in the Philippines. For broadcast purposes contact Kawayan Productions, P.O. Box 86, Baguio City, Philippines. 22 minutes
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Breastfeeding Compilation I
Length: 104 minutes
Language: English
(for French and Spanish versions, order individually by programme code):
Item Code:  328
Includes the following four programmes:

1) Breastfeeding Rediscovered (#192)
1985 / 31 minutes / English, French, Spanish
A look at the benefits of breastfeeding and influence of hospital practices. For medical personnel and government policy makers.
2) Feeding Low-birthweight Babies (#224)
1987 / 29 minutes / English, French, Spanish
Each year, 22 million babies are born weighing less than 2.5 kilos and are at risk of early death or poor health. Breastfeeding protects pre-term infants from such risks. Technical video only.
3) Breastfeeding—A Global Priority (#238)
1990 / 30 minutes / English, French, Spanish
Breastfeeding protects newborns against infections and is also more cost-effective than bottle-feeding. Stresses the importance of breastfeeding.
4) Mother Kangaroo—A Light of Hope (#240)
1988 / 14 minutes / English, Spanish
Faced with a severe shortage of incubators, Colombian doctors developed the ‘mother kangaroo’ technique to ensure the survival of premature babies. Mothers keep their newborn babies close to their breasts in home-made pouches similar to the natural pouch of a kangaroo.
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Breast is Best
Production Year: 1995
Length: 35 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code: 331

Offers practical advice on breastfeeding and midwife support and contrasts effective modern care with outdated practices. For broadcast clearance contact Health-Info, Video Vital AS,
P.O. Box: 5058 Majorstua, N-0301 Oslo, Norway.
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Immunization

100 million children suffer from Vitamin A deficiency around the world that causes life-long debilitating weaknesses. To combat this silent peril, national governments, international agencies and the private sector have developed global initiatives to dramatically improve children’s lives. Includes US First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton endorsing the initiative.
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Vitamin A—The Global Initiative 
    Advocacy Version
Production Year: 1999
Length: 17:00 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code:  360B

By fortifying sugar—targetted for its universal usage—with vitamin A at practically no cost, millions of children are reached daily with this vital nutrient. Features Vitamin A fortification programmes and distribution campaigns in Guatemala, Zambia and Bangladesh.
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The Planned Miracle: Why Save the Children?
Production Year: 1991
Length: 48 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 267A

Co-produced with Independent Communications Associates Limited (InCA). In 1983, the Task Force for Child Survival and Development was formed. Its aim was to give every child in the world a healthy start in life, in part by immunizing 80 per cent of children under one year by 1990. Featured are the efforts in developing countries to ensure that children will no longer die from preventable diseases.
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The Planned Miracle: Who Pays for Africa?
Production Year: 1991
Length: 49 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 267B

The international cooperative effort to reduce childhood deaths through immunization has been a success. But there are still the problems of growing population, poverty and AIDS. Continued worldwide attention must be focused on children to solve these problems.
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WHO and UNICEF Immunization Feature
Production Year: 1991
Length: 7 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 259

On October 1991 at the United Nations in New York, a jointly sponsored WHO/UNICEF event marked the achievement of worldwide immunization of under-one-year-olds against the six most deadly vaccine-preventable childhood diseases. The history of this global undertaking and the efforts of India, Turkey, Uganda and Yemen to reach their immunization goals are explored.
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Micronutrient deficiencies

Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD), the world's single greatest cause of mental retardation, is treated through the simple process of salt iodization. This video looks at the global progress towards elimination of IDD, telling success stories and highlighting the work of salt producers, governments and international organizations.
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Ending Hidden Hunger
Production Year: 1992
Length: 20 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 272

Narrated by Sir Peter Ustinov, this report features UNICEF’s work in eliminating deficiencies in three vital micronutrients: iron, vitamin A and iodine. With examples from all over the globe, the report clearly indicates the major steps that have been implemented to achieve this goal.
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Ending Hidden Hunger Training Sequences
Production Year: 1992
Length: 20 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 281

1) Iodine Deficiency Disorders / 10 minutes
2) Iron Deficiency Disorders / 9 minutes
3) Vitamin A Deficiency Disorders / 10 minutes

Three reports on one tape provide an update on the progress of UNICEF’s global efforts to reduce the number of women and children suffering from lack of micronutrients in their diet. Each identifies the physical symptoms caused by a deficiency, the global spread in afflicted areas and overall plans to reduce disorders.
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The Stealthy Scourge
Production Year: 1989
Length: 30 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 220

Iodine deficiency can lead to mental and physical deformities, cretinism, deaf-mutism, goitre and dwarfism. Children of iodine-deficient mothers suffer brain damage in the womb, and are frequently stillborn. Control programmes are explored in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia and Nepal.
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Oral rehydration therapy

An advocacy video aimed to motivate policy makers to promote oral rehydration therapy (ORT). The solution to diarrhoeal deaths, the biggest single killer of children in this century, is in our hands. Introduced by UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy and includes interviews with doctors, news coverage and public service announcements.
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No More Salty than Tears
Production Year: 1988
Length: 22 minutes
Languages: English, Spanish
Item Code: 216

Nurnessa, a Bangladeshi woman, struggles with her five children and the constant threat of diarrhoea and dehydration. Relief is brought through UNICEF-supplied oral rehydration salts, along with proper understanding of how and when to administer them. Filmed by an all-woman crew.
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Oral Rehydration in Childhood Diarrhoea
Production Year: 1987
Length: 25 minutes
Languages: English, French
Item Code: 194

Produced by WHO with assistance from UNICEF. The use of oral rehydration salts greatly reduces infant deaths due to diarrhoea. This video details how the use of ORS in Egypt saved 130,000 lives.
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Horizon: A Handful of Sugar 
with a Pinch of Salt
Production Year: 1985
Length: 50 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code: 198

Co-produced with Horizon and WHO. Filmed in Bangladesh, Egypt, Honduras and Nicaragua, a depiction of how oral rehydration therapy given to children with diarrhoea prevents death from dehydration.
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Communication for development

This video encourages the use of puppetry in development communications. It shows the wide use of puppets from several countries to tackle sensitive social issues. It also demonstrates how puppets can be used to make low-cost quality tv programmes for children. Covering a UNICEF workshop in Indonesia, where puppeteers came from over 40 countries, the video contains samples of the many styles of local puppetry around the world and clips from successful international  TV shows.
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Communication: Agent For Change
Production Year: 1989
Length: 21 minutes
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 225

This video takes a close look at the importance of mass media in the development of health education and child survival programmes in the field.
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Facts For Life: A Communication Challenge
Production Year: 1989
Length: 17 minutes
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 234

Designed to promote the Facts for Life initiative launched by WHO, UNICEF and UNESCO and supported by 100 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide. It explains how the health of children in the developing world could be dramatically improved if all families were empowered with today’s essential child health information. It is specifically intended for policy and decision makers in government departments, religious organizations, the mass media, the educational system, NGOs and community groups.
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See also
Children’s Profiles

Social mobilization and training

This animated live-action programme provides parents with knowledge, strategies and resources to enhance children's development during the first seven years of life. Noted pediatrician Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and US First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton are featured.
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Local Perspectives On Development
Production Year: 1995
Length:  English, 72 minutes / Spanish, 28 minutes
Languages: English, Spanish
Item Code: 309

Local Perspectives on Development is a package of two videos. The English version contains footage from Kenya, Namibia, Nicaragua, Thailand and Viet Nam. The Spanish version contains footage from Mexico and Nicaragua. Produced by local filmmakers, these programmes provide thought-provoking insights from a community perspective into the challenges facing children.
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¡Comuniquémonos Ya!
Production Year: 1992
Length:  23 minutes
Languages: Spanish
Item Code: 260

A training package for community health workers that includes a video and facilitator’s guide to improving interpersonal communication for growth monitoring and promotion in the field.
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These Are Our Children
Production Year: 1992
Length:  11 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code: 265

Community leaders and health and development professionals in Uganda explain why assisting ‘AIDS orphans’ through the community is more effective than institutional care. The video is intended for political leaders and aid donors.
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Images
Production Year: 1992
Length: 11 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code: 264

Images is designed to help viewers look for the reality behind images and to make the viewer question the influence of how images are perceived. The programme, accompanied by an activity booklet, is a training tool for young people aged 14 and over.
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A Grain of Sand
Production Year: 1992
Length: 22 minutes
Languages: Spanish, English Subtitles
Item Code: 288

Each individual working with women’s groups in Peru plays an important role in improving community health. In recognition of their vital contribution, UNICEF works closely with local women’s groups to deliver better health care.
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Social Mobilization in the Philippines
Production Year: 1992
Length: 20 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code: 291

Approaches to social mobilization used in child survival projects are examined in the Philippines. The roles of those involved, especially women, are explored. Projects range from helping children living on the streets to a community kitchen for malnourished children in rural Negros.
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The World Mobilizes for 
Universal Child Immunization
Production Year: 1991
Length: 9 minutes
Languages: English, Spanish
Item Code: 261

Government leaders, diplomats and heads of United Nations organizations gathered at the UN in October 1991 to hail the greatest child health achievement in history—the immunization of 80 per cent of the world’s infants against the six most deadly vaccine-preventable childhood diseases. This video details the social mobilization efforts to achieve universal child immunization.
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You’ll Be Talking about Us
Production Year: 1991
Length: 30 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code: 290

What started as a UNICEF health nutrition project to reverse the high infant mortality rate in Tanzania has evolved into a broader effort aimed at improving the conditions of women. Successful projects, initiated and managed by women’s groups, have challenged the traditional roles of women and men in various communities.
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Invest in the Children
Production Year: 1989
Length: 25 minutes
Languages: English, Spanish
Item Code: 231

Children and the poor in the developing world are dramatically affected by the foreign debt crisis. UNICEF’s concept of ‘adjustment with a human face’ provides an alternative model for development.
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A Mural for the Children: 
The World Summit Mural Project
Production Year: 1990
Length: 9 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code: 250

Fifteen children create a mural for display at the World Summit for Children. While discussing the issues and themes to be painted on the mural, the children learn how to work together.
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Key to Freedom: Women and Literacy
Production Year: 1990
Length: 28 minutes
Languages: English, French
Item Code: 251

The typical citizen of our world is young, poor, female and often illiterate. This programme features women in Costa Rica, Mali, Thailand and the United States for whom literacy makes a difference.
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341
Production Year: 1990
Length: 13 minutes
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 244

Every day 40,000 children around the world die—half from easily preventable causes. 341 children will die as this videotape is viewed, a quiet catastrophe that never makes headlines. But in 1990, two and a half million lives were saved, and today’s knowledge can protect millions more.
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Beyond the Wall
Production Year: 1990
Length: 26 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code: 246

This programme takes the viewer beyond the Great Wall of China and shows how the impoverished rural population suffers from tainted water, preventable diseases, and inadequate education and health care systems.
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Children in need of special protection measures

Children in armed conflict

A visual poem as told and sung exclusively by child war victims in a series of vignettes, Vesa: Children of Kosovo is a moving testimony to the horrors of ethnic conflict. Accompanied by children's mournful singing and haunting cello, piano and flute music, children as young as four recall their terrible losses and wander amongst the rubble of their former homes as they return to Kosovo. Yet they look to the future with renewed hope, cherishing their freedom and their remaining friends and family. A metaphor for hope, the recurring image of a field of sunflowers, is interwoven throughout.
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Soldier Boy
Production Year: 1997
Co-produced with Danish TV
Length: 26 minutes
Language: English and M & E
Item Code: 334

In Liberia, West Africa, thousands of children aged seven or over are fighting as soldiers in a civil war that has been raging since 1989. A quarter of the combatants are children. Frode Højer  Pedersen’s docudrama profiles 13-year-old Mike, forced by the militia to join the army. After one bloody assault, Mike tries to slip away. But in Liberia boy soldiers who have escaped the fighting are often rejected by their relatives because they have 'blood on
their hands' and they survive in gangs on the streets. Until peace returns, Mike—like thousands of other former child soldiers—will have to fend for himself.
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The Silent Shout
Production Year: 1997
Length: 10 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 335

Designed to help children learn about landmines, The Silent Shout is an animated story that brings together four child characters all injured in some way by landmines. Interwoven throughout the story are messages about what mines do and how best to avoid them. The children are shown overcoming their injuries, including psychological trauma, reminding viewers what can be achieved through determination and the support of families and
communities.
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Small Targets
Production Year: 1997
Length: 26:40 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 339

According to the United Nations, there are more than 110 million landmines in 68 countries around the world, one mine for every 12 children. Another 100 million are believed to be stockpiled ready for use. Small Targets tells the story of landmine placement and clearance in Mozambique. Landmines are a continuing threat to the country’s development, shattering the lives of children and their communities for years to come.
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Vada
Production Year: 1996
Length: 48 minutes
Language: English subtitles
Item Code: 316

For 20 years Angola has been torn apart by war. Now, during a fragile peace, Angolans struggle to come to terms with a painful past. Vada follows a UNICEF-sponsored theatre group, Julu, as it travels to remote and war-torn areas of the country to act out the intolerable suffering brought on by the war and its aftermath.
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Making Peace Work
Production Year: 1996
Length: 16 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 317

Sixty per cent of the population is under 18 in the West Bank and Gaza—and years of conflict have deprived many of their basic needs. By providing free education, health care and safe play areas since 1993, the Palestinian Authority, international donors, UNICEF and UN  agencies have encouraged children’s rights in this newly emerging nation. Includes an interview with Suha Arafat.
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Rwanda Features
Production Year: 1995
Length: 17 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code: 315

Four features focus on helping Rwanda’s children in the aftermath of ethnic conflict: counselling child prisoners; providing trauma recovery for war victims; reuniting children with their families; and providing basic education materials for children.
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Day Of The African Child—
Yambio, Southern Sudan
Production Year: 1995
Length: 7 minute News Feature
Language: English
Item Code: 286B

The southern Sudanese rebels pledged to support the Convention on the Rights of the Child to protect children’s rights. Includes interviews with children and UNICEF staff, talks with rebel groups and visits to a school and a hospital.
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Going Home: The Story of  Unaccompanied Children of  Southern Sudan
Production Year: 1993
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 286A

This video documents the plight of a group of young boys, who escaped the civil conflict in southern Sudan in 1988 by fleeing to refugee camps in Ethiopia, only to flee again to Kenya in 1992. Photos of the boys were distributed all over the country, and 156 of them were subsequently reunited with their families.
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Afghanistan—A Forgotten War
Production Year: 1995
Length: 10 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 314

Co-produced with RAI-TV. This video looks at how the forgotten and ongoing conflict in Afghanistan is affecting efforts to build a future for the children.
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Burundi—Healing The Invisible Wounds
Production Year: 1995
Length: 30 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 312

Orphaned and homeless children in Burundi live in internal refugee camps: UNICEF works to heal their psychological wounds through counselling programmes and conflict resolution skills.
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Angola: Children at War
Production Year: 1993
Length: 10 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 287

The emergency situation in war-torn Angola is relieved as UN air bridges provide essential supplies to 2 million people isolated in the city of Huambo. UNICEF’s vaccination campaign continues nationwide with supplies sent by  convoys to centres around the country. Children and women severely affected by the crisis in Angola are the focus of relief efforts organized by the UN and other organizations.
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Yugoslavia: The Long Way Round—
We All Lived Together
Production Year: 1993
Length: 30 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 292

Child survivors from former Yugoslavia talk about their experiences of the war in this documentary, describing ethnic purification and expressing their hopes for peace. In a camp in Croatia for displaced Muslims, the children attend school and are treated for war trauma.
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Sarajevo: Children under Siege
Production Year: 1993
Length: 15 minute and 27 minute versions
Language: English
Item Code: 295

The children who lived in Sarajevo during the 16-month siege from 1992 to 1993 experienced untold trauma and violence. These innocent victims of war share their horror, disbelief and suffering—psychological and physical—from the ordeal. Sarajevo: Children under siege is a tribute to their courage and strength.
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The Four Seasons
Production Year: 1993
Length: 19 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 296

Facing an endless winter, children and their parents cope with the cold in Sarajevo. A child chops up a chair for firewood; a mother feeds a dying fire a plastic toy and a sneaker. Children collect water, learn English on the radio, attend classes by candlelight, and a boy bakes bread with the flour he earns by working for the local baker.
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I Dream of Peace—Images of War by Children 
in Former Yugoslavia
Production Year: 1993
Length: 6 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 300

Told through the images and voices of children, the haunting memories of the innocent victims of the conflict in former Yugoslavia are captured. Children recount and describe their drawings that illustrate their fear and pain. The drawings were undertaken as part of the UNICEF emergency programme to assist war-traumatized children.
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Hadlok: Hidden Wounds, Silent Victims
Production Year: 1992
Length: 28 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 269

After more than two decades of conflict in the Philippines, nearly half of all civilian victims are children. They see their parents die and are often separated from their home and family. They suffer from hidden wounds—the psychosocial effects of war—that are potentially more harmful than any physical injuries. Efforts are being made to nurture and protect these children.
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See also:
One Way to Paradise
Soldier Boy

Child labour

The exploitation and hazardous use of child labour jeopardizes the survival, development and future of children all over the world. The Philippines Government, in partnership with UNICEF and local agencies, has implemented a community action plan to achieve the total abolition of hazardous child labour and protect children’s rights.
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See also:
They Call Me Dog
Tomorrow We Will Finish

Street children

Street Girls is a view of life in the streets of Nicaragua where teenagers sleep in abandoned buildings, sniff glue and earn money through prostitution. The story is told through the daily life of two young girls who live on the streets.
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See also:
Citizen 2000
Dream Girls
 

Gender discrimination and violence

In Bangladesh 3 women die every hour due to complications —often preventable — of pregnancy and childbirth. Yet the veil of silence surrounding maternal deaths is only starting to break as the millennium nears: Women are finally speaking out on their right to maternal health care. But unless reducing maternal mortality comes as a movement from within society as a whole little real progress can be made. Includes a statement from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and testimonies from Bangladeshi women.
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Stop Violence against Women and Girls
Production Year: 1999
A Life Free of Violence, It Is Our Right / 5:29 
Domestic Violence / 5:13 minutes
Language: English, Spanish
Item Code: 362

These two compact profiles of violence against children and adolescent girls in Latin America and the Caribbean reveal the wide scale outrage of gender-based abuse that is neither acknowledged nor understood by society — particularly domestic violence. The video advocates that education alone is the instrument that can generate a change of attitude in the community and gradually lead society towards acceptance and prevention of violence and ultimately gender equality. Includes testimonies from abused women and children.
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Voices of Change: Ending Violence against 
Women and Girls in South Asia 
Production Year: 1999
Length: 28 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 343

This powerful programme examines the impact of violence on girls and women in South Asia, and profiles some of those who are acting to stop the violence in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. An advocacy video intended for NGOs to use to stimulate discussions and support movements against gender-based abuse in South Asia.
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Children in Africa

Produced by Debonair Productions. In 1989 the award-winning film Chain of Tears exposed the effects of war on children in Africa. Eight years later Chain of Hope shows what happened to them. Told from the children’s perspective, the horrors of war are not disguised and the survival of human values is proved. Chain of Hope includes an interview with Graça Machel, the former Minister of Education of Mozambique and Expert of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the impact of armed conflict on children.
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Day of the African Child
Production Year: 1994
Length: 9 minutes
Language: English
Item Code: 301

In an effort to prioritize the needs and situation of children in Africa, UNICEF inaugurated the Day of the African Child. This video focuses on the challenges of meeting the goals set at the World Summit for Children. Included are discussions on the debt crisis, income generation, primary health care and education that affect the development of the African child.
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Bamako Initiative in Action
Production Year: 1992
Length: 35 minutes
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 256

Many African nations are trying an innovative approach to primary health care. A partnership has been formed between governments, communities and international organizations to provide better  quality care and essential drugs at cost. This video looks at community involvement in health care in Guinea, Kenya and Senegal.
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Angola—The Transition
Production Year: 1992
Length: 13 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code: 257

Angola’s civil war left 1 in 30 of its population dead, 50,000 children orphaned and $25 billion material damage. Working to consolidate peace, repatriating its refugees and providing access to safe water and sanitation are among the problems facing Angolans.
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A Week of Sweet Water
Production Year: 1985
Length: 37 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code: 186

Co-produced with BBC. A chronicle of daily life in a village in drought-stricken Burkina Faso. The programme focuses on family relationships, a young mother’s worry about grain shortage and the impending clitoridectomy of her daughter.
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See also:
Alone We Are Nothing
Angola: Children at War
Burundi—Healing the
     Invisible Wounds
Daughters of Africa:
    Zimbabwe, Benin, Uganda, Senegal
Day of the African Child—
    Yambio, southern Sudan
Going Home: The Story of
    Unaccompanied  Children
    of Southern Sudan
A Lesson in Survival
The Orphan Generation
The Planned Miracle:
     Who pays for Africa?
The Planned Miracle:
    Why save the children?
Rwanda Features
Sara Saves a Friend
Sara . . . The Special Gift
Sara . . . Daughter of a Lioness
Small Targets
Soldier Boy
Soul City TV Show in South Africa
These are Our Children
Uganda: The War of
      the Child Soldiers
Vada
You’ll Be Talking About Us
Zimbabwe’s School-Based
       Life Skills Programme [AIDS]
 

Environment, water and sanitation

Children First focuses on the issues raised by children at the UN ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro. It shows children participating in tree-planting in Kenya, income-generating activities in the Amazon and an acid rain experiment in Japan. Designed to stimulate discussion and motivate children and adults to focus on environmental issues in their own communities.
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Water Means Life
Production Year: 1989
Length: 18 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code: 144

Water is the crucial factor of man’s life. In Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Tanzania, Viet Nam and Yemen, as in many other parts of the developing world, the search for an abundant supply of safe water has always been of deepest concern.
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Women, Water and Sanitation
Production Year: 1986
Length: 12 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code:  203

A documentation of the involvement of women as decision makers in a semi-urban sanitation project in Nepal. It shows women as handpump caretakers in India and as technicians in the construction of the Abomsa Water Project in Ethiopia.
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See also:
Growing Up I & 2
When The Bough Breaks

Goodwill Ambassadors

With an introduction by Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn recounts her love of children and her work with UNICEF as a Goodwill Ambassador, including visits to Bangladesh, Somalia and Viet Nam.
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UNICEF Celebrates Audrey Hepburn
Production Year: 1993
Length: 57 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code:  282

A celebration of the life and work of Audrey Hepburn. Included are tributes by James P. Grant, Henry Mancini, Elizabeth Taylor, Dave Brubeck, Barbara Walters, Hugh Downs, Cicely Tyson, Harry Belafonte and children she met worldwide as a Goodwill Ambassador.
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UNICEF Salutes Danny Kaye
Production Year: 1983
Length: 13 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code:  350

Selections spanning nearly 30 years of Danny Kaye’s worldwide service as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador: performing at the UN General Assembly in 1953 and delighting and consoling countless children in Burma, Greece, India, Indonesia, Morocco and elsewhere. Danny Kaye’s own narration’s interspersed throughout, with a final salute offered by James P. Grant.
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Children of Russia: 
A Visit by Sir Peter Ustinov
Production Year: 1994
Length: 50 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code:  299

Sir Peter Ustinov, with his wonderful quick wit and charm, investigates the needs of children in Russia and the challenges and difficulties they face.
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Peter Ustinov’s Mission to China
Production Year: 1988
Length: 29 minutes
Languages: English
Item Code: 213

Produced in association with John McGreevy Productions. UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Sir Peter Ustinov on an eye-opening and lively mission through China’s major cities and rural interior.
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Programmes for children

Two short documentaries from Mexico and Bangladesh focusing on children speaking out.
 1) Learning To Be / 3:30 minutes
Children living on the streets of Oaxaca, Mexico, make up this unique theatre company that uses the stage to illustrate the difficult and dangerous situations they face every day.
 2)  Cub Reporters On Child Labour / 3:53 minutes
This story focuses on a Children’s Express group who travel to Bangladesh and train young people in journalism techniques as they cover a story on child labour. The newly trained young journalists later travelled to the US to do their own story on the same subject.
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Postcards To Cairo
Production Year: 1996
Length: 30 minutes
Languages:  English, French, Arabic, Spanish, International
Item Code: 318

This documentary highlights children’s rights as articulated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The film follows six young people from Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia as they explore the theme of children’s rights in the Middle East.
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UNICEF Stories For Kids
Production Year: 1996
Length: 15 minutes each
Languages:  English, International
Item Code: 275C

1) Rwanda   2) Guatemala  3) Eritrea  4) Nepal
Rwanda films Jean, an orphan who lost his family in the 1994 Rwanda conflict. In Guatemala, 14-year-old Victor teaches children whose parents cannot afford to send them to school. Eritrea follows two 10-year-old soccer players from Eritrea who travel to Norway. Nepal concerns Kumari, a Nepalese girl and her impending marriage.
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UNICEF Stories For Kids
Production Year: 1995
Length: 15 minutes each
Languages:  English, International
Item Code: 275B

1) Barriletes      2) Shamin
These two short stories explore the lives of children in Guatemala and Indonesia. Barriletes features a group of children from Guatemala who run a television station; Shamin tells the story of an Indonesian boy’s determination to save money to go to school.
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UNICEF Stories For Kids
Production Year: 1993
Length: 15 minutes each
Languages:  English, International
Item Code: 275A

1) Kalinga / 17 minutes
2) Fabio And The Samba School / 16 minutes
These two short stories explore the lives of children in India and Brazil. In Bangalore (India), a group of homeless children roam the city collecting paper from garbage piles to trade for money to buy their next meal. In Brazil, local residents build a ‘samba school’. Through folk music and dance, children and adults prepare for the opening day of the carnival.
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Alone We Are Nothing
Production Year: 1995
Length: 30 minutes
Languages:  English, French, International
Item Code: 319

This video is a dramatization of a puppet show used to promote peace and conflict resolution in Burundi. The story, performed by life-size puppets, is about a man and his animals who realize the necessity and value of working and living together.
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Map Rap
Production Year: 1994
Length: 30 minutes
Languages:  English
Item Code: 320

Map Rap is an acronym for Magazine of Asia-Pacific, Round Asia-Pacific. The contemporary rap music base provides the common link for children, and the stories included in the programme reflect the everyday lives of children from different nations.
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A Toy Is What You Make It
Production Year: 1987
Length: 25 minutes
Languages:  English
Item Code:  211

Produced by VARA Television in co-operation with the Netherlands Committee for UNICEF. Linn Ullmann, teenage daughter of actress Liv Ullmann, shows how children in Kenya, Peru, Sri Lanka and Turkey who cannot buy toys display enormous creativity and skill in making toys from whatever material their environment offers.
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A Tough Place to Play
Production Year: 1981
Length: 15 minutes
Languages:  English, Spanish
Item Code:  164

Life in the slums is never easy, either for adults or for children, who must also bear the burden of economic pressure in a brutal environment. Many children are raised on the streets from the beginning, taking part in their parents’ harsh daily routine.
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The Tale of Bhutan
Production Year: 1979
Length: 27 minutes
Languages:  English
Item Code:  151

Bhutan was once virtually isolated from the rest of the world, but has emerged from isolation and rapidly developed its economy while preserving its distinct Bhutanese identity. How this was done is told through the metaphorical story of a kind-hearted king who sought the help of the moon to realize his dream—the prosperity of his people.
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UNICEF Is Sharing
Production Year: 1983
Length: 7 minutes
Languages:  English
Item Code:  122

This imaginative animated film for children answers the question "What is UNICEF?" Young children can readily understand the negative attitude of the small cartoon character who is transported into the countries and families of the world. Older children will appreciate the dramatic narration of Peter Ustinov.
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Animation

Cartoons for children’s rights

Through Cartoons for Children’s Rights, an international group of top animation studios is producing 30-second features to raise awareness of children’s rights. More than 80 companies representing over 25 countries are members of Cartoons for Children’s Rights. The 30-second animation shorts will make ideal interstitials, as they are each unique, created by some of the most renowned animators in the world, and are entertaining as well as educational. The spots are geared for adults, aimed at educating them about crucial child rights issues, and at the same time they are engaging for children as well.
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Cartoons for Children’s Rights 2
Production Year: 1999
Length: 34 minutes / 37 spots, 30 seconds each
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 341B
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Meena: The animated series

Meena: Count Your Chickens
Production Year: 1992
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 279A

Meena’s father does not allow her to go to school, but Meena’s parrot Mithu memorizes the lessons and teaches her to count. One day, Meena notices that one of her chickens is missing, and her quick wit helps catch the village thief. Praised by the village headman for her counting skills, Meena is allowed to go to school.
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Meena: Dividing the Mango
Production Year: 1993
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 279B

Meena works hard every day but it is Raju, her brother, who is always given the larger portion of food. When Meena and Raju decide to swap jobs for the day, Raju realizes that Meena works very hard and deserves the same share of the food. Raju decides he will help Meena and from now on he will share half and half.
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Meena: Will Meena Leave School?
Production Year: 1994
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 279C

Meena’s father does not have any seeds to plant for harvest, so he must borrow the rice from the greedy shopkeeper who charges him high interest. In order to pay off the loan, Meena’s mother may have to go to work, and Meena would have to stay home to care for the baby. Meena, with skills learned at school, helps her mother obtain a loan to start a business she can run from home. Meena’s help ensures that she continues to go to school.
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Meena: Who’s Afraid of the Bully?
Production Year: 1994
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 279D

Every day, as Meena’s friend Rita walks to school, the school bully picks on her. Meena and her friends decide that together they can beat the bully at his own game. They stand up to the bully and make him realize that he is the ultimate loser and it would be better if they were all friends.
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Meena: Say No to Dowry
Production Year: 1995
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 279E

Meena’s cousin Taara is going to get married, and her parents are being asked to pay a large dowry. Meena discovers that the shopkeeper and his son, the bridegroom, are greedily planning to ask for even more dowry when the couple is married. The villagers and Taara’s parents ensure that the shopkeeper and his son are unable to find a family willing to pay a dowry for their daughter.
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Meena: Too Young to Mary
Production Year: 1995
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 279F

Meena’s uncle has arranged for his daughter Rita to marry Babu, a shopkeeper’s son. But Rita is only 15 and has not yet finished school. With Meena’s help, it comes to light that Babu, who is studying to be a doctor, does not want to get married yet, especially since he knows it is unsafe for young girls to become mothers. To everyone’s satisfaction, the marriage is postponed until Rita is 18 and has completed her education.
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Meena: Saving a Life
Production Year: 1994
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 279G

Meena’s grandmother feels that Meena should not be at school. But when Meena’s baby sister, Rani, falls sick with diarrhoea, it is Meena and her brother Raju who race through a storm to seek advice from their schoolteacher who gives them the life-saving message—the importance of giving the baby plenty to drink to stop dehydration. The grandmother is only then convinced girls should go to school too.
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Meena: Three Wishes
Production Year: 1995
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 279H

Meena dreams of a magic genie that will grant her three wishes so that everyone would be healthy and never again get sick from poor sanitation and unsafe water. When Meena wakes up she realizes that she must make her dream come true. With the help of her brother Raju, other children in the village, and Mithu, her pet parrot, Meena convinces people to build and use latrines, to use safe water and to wash their hands to stop the spread of germs and disease.
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Meena: I Love School
Production Year: 1997
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 279I

Meena and Raju have a wonderful teacher who instructs by patient example. But when the teacher goes away, they become bewildered in the hands of the mean substitute teacher who mercilessly scolds and instructs through empty repetition. With the help of Meena’s cousin, Taara, the children finally understand what the substitute teacher has been unsuccessfully forcing them to learn. Meena is then able to rescue the new teacher from a near crippling accident, and Meena regains her love for school.
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Meena: Take Care of Girls
Production Year: 1997
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 279J

Meena discovers parents are often concerned only for their sons and neglect their daughters. When a family arrives to perform at the local fair, the sick daughter must work while the equally ill son rests. But Meena gets the girl to a doctor and the family vows to ‘take care of girls’ from now on.
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Meena: It’s Got To Be a Boy
Production Year: 1997
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 279K

By chance, Meena learns to fix stubborn tractor carburettors. Meanwhile, her cousin is having her first child and Meena’s uncle insists that it will be a boy. When the baby is a girl instead, the uncle is so furious he causes his tractor to stall on the railroad tracks. Meena fixes the carburettor just in time, proving girls can bring glory to the family as well.
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Meena: A Girl’s Story
Production Year: 1997
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 279L

Meena tries to befriend Rano, a shy young girl whose entire family is dying of AIDS. Only when Meena rescues Rano’s drawings from blowing away does Rano finally tell Meena her sad story. The other village children—who fear and thus cruelly tease Rano—secretly listen, and when the family nurse appears, she teaches them about AIDS. No longer afraid, they all eagerly play with Rano.
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Meena: I Am Meena
Production Year: 1998
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 279M

A compilation of Meena’s adventures and the lessons learned in the entire series. An excellent source of life-saving messages for children and adults alike.
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Meena, Oh Meena
Production Year: 1999
Length: 20 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 279N

Sir Peter Ustinov narrates this commentary on the making of the Meena series and its widespread impact on girls and women of South Asia. Now translated into 30 languages, Meena has become a champion of female empowerment worldwide. Filmed also are children's dramatizations of their favourite Meena scenes as well as the reactions of villagers living in remote rural areas when seeing Meena episodes for the first time.
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Animation programmes

The first programme in a series of animated films produced by UNICEF in eastern and southern Africa about the adventures of Sara, an adolescent girl and role model for girls’ empowerment in Africa.The story concerns ‘pushout’ from school and the workload girls endure at home. Full of fun, the story deals with real problems and points to solutions in a culturally sensitive way.
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Sara Saves Her Friend
Production Year: 1998
Length: 22 minutes
Language: English, French, International
Item Code: 348

The second programme on the adventures of Sara highlights HIV/AIDS and sexual harassment issues. With the aid of her pet monkey, Zingo, Sara uses her decision-making skills to rescue her school friend, Amina, from being sexually abused by truck drivers. The story encourages community discussion on solutions to such problems.
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Sara...Daughter of a Lioness
Production Year: 1998
Length: 17 minutes
Language: English, French, International
Item Code: 367

The third programme on Sara focuses on the harmful traditional practice of female circumcision. Sara is targetted to be circumcised but manages to mobilize the community against the practice. The video can be widely used by development workers to create awareness and behaviour change against FGM and other health risk customs and to educate people on children's and human rights.
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The Silent Shout
Production Year: 1997
Length: 10 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 335

Designed to help children learn about landmines, The Silent Shout is an animated story that brings together four child characters all injured in some way by landmines. Interwoven throughout the story are messages about what mines do and how best to avoid them. The children are shown overcoming their injuries, including psychological trauma, reminding viewers what can be achieved through determination and the support of families and
communities.
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The following two programmes focus on reducing conflict through interpersonal communication. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Rights to these films are restricted to UNICEF use for educational purposes. Broadcast rights and use by NGOs or other organizations require clearance from and license fees paid to the National Film Board of Canada:
Tel: 514-283-9439, Fax: 514-496-1895
Web site: www.nfb.ca (English), www.onf.ca (French)

Dinner For Two
Production Year: 1997
Length: 7:15 minutes
Language: Non-verbal
Item Code: 336

Peace in the rainforest is disrupted when two chameleons start fighting, with catastrophic results. Dinner for Two shows that amid the chaos that differences create, paths to reconciliation still remain.
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When The Dust Settles
Production Year: 1997
Length: 7:11 minutes
Language: Non-verbal
Item Code: 337

Two neighbouring gophers with an appetite for revenge have all but obliterated both of their homes in one day. Is there any other way they can put the pieces back together?
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Drawing Insight
Production Year: 1995
Length: 30 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code: 323

Drawing Insight provides a visual overview of the relationship between UNICEF and animation—from the 1960s when animation was used for fund-raising, to the 1990s, when animation is being used to pass along life-saving messages. As told by leaders in the animation industry and developing country artists.
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For Every Child
Length: 11 minutes
Language: Non-verbal
Item Code: 201

The story of how UNICEF's world-famous Greeting Card Operations started and what it is all about. Produced by the celebrated Czech animator, Bretislav Pojar, the film is non-verbal and can be used in any country.
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UNICEF Past and Present

A documentary on UNICEF’s efforts to ensure the survival, protection and development of society’s most vulnerable citizens by providing a lifeline of supplies to children and women worldwide. Based in Copenhagen, the UNICEF supply centre’s duties range from shipping basic classroom materials to supplying vital hospital equipment. Stories from Kyrgyzstan, Mozambique, and Viet Nam.
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James P. Grant—Architect of a Revolution
Production Year: 1995
Length: 13 minutes
Language: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code: 321

Architect of a Revolution is a tribute to the former Executive Director of UNICEF, James P. Grant, who dedicated his life to the welfare of the world’s children. It illustrates the child survival and development revolution he initiated and his efforts to save so many of the world’s children from easily preventable diseases.
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UNICEF—50 Years
Production Year: 1995
Length: 13 minutes
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Item Code: 322

In the aftermath of World War II, UNICEF was founded to aid children across war-torn Europe. As medical breakthroughs gave hope in the fight against epidemic disease in the 1950s, the UNICEF mandate was expanded and global immunization initiated. Since then, UNICEF's growing child survival and child rights campaigns have reached into the heart of children's urgent needs everywhere. This short documentary highlights these past 50
years of UNICEF's activities throughout the world.
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Public service announcements

Animated and live action spots highlighting every child’s right to education, self expression, protection from child labour and a quality future. Includes Merrill Lynch Spots on education.
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Vitamin A Spots
Production Year: 1999
Length: Three spots, 20 seconds each
Languages: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code: 364

"Vitamin A: It’s easy. It’s inexpensive. It saves lives." Narrated by children, these three spots quickly demonstrate how UNICEF along with its global partners solve Vitamin A deficiency and save lives at minimum cost.
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Live Action Spots, Logos And Graphics for ICDB
Production Year: 1999
Length: Twelve 30 second spots / 
5:00 minute music video
Three 30 second Merrill Lynch spots
Languages: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code: 365

These spots highlight children as agents of positive change throughout the world. Produced by UNICEF and the Special Broadcasters Group for the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting. The stories were filmed in Namibia, China,Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Finland, Brazil, Venezuela, Latvia, India, and Jordan. Also includes three 30 second spots created with assistance from Merrill Lynch: ‘Investing in Kids’ focusing on children who have set goals to improve their community’s future.
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UNICEF Music Video Reel 1998
Production Year: 1998
Length: 3:40 minutes
Languages: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code: 366

Co-produced by France 3 and NA3D. This animated puppet musical takes the viewer into the dreaming mind of the lion-king in the heart of the jungle. But his dream is no dream: it is a nightmare of epic proportions as he envisions his world in dire straits — the skies, waters and oceans polluted beyond repair. As the lion-king struggles to wake-up, he claims 'man has lost its mind' as he sees his animal subjects suffering from mankind's environmental outrages.
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UNICEF Music Video Reel 1997
Production Year: 1997
Languages: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code: 326

Featuring musicians who have donated songs for the benefit of children:
I Dream of Peace, a song by UNICEF Special Representative for the Performing Arts Judy Collins; Footprints in Time, performed by schoolchildren from California; What’s the Right, a rap song on child rights by Global Vision; Important Things, a computer-animated music video, and Together, a popular music video performed and written by David Broza with lyrics by Ramsey McLean.
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UNICEF Human Rights Spots
Production Year: 1998
Length: 3 spots, 30 seconds each
Languages: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code: 352

Spots produced in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Human Rights Commission.
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UNICEF Child Labour Spots
Production Year: 1997
Length: 3 spots, 30 seconds each
Languages: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code: 351

Spots highlighting child labour issues around the world.
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PSAs on Iodine Deficiency
Production Year: 1997
Length: 3 spots, 30 seconds each
Languages: English
Item Code: 344

1)  IDD: Foetus
2)  IDD: Intelligence
3)  IDD: Nation Building

Three animated public service announcements promoting the iodization of salt.
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UNICEF Live Action Spot Reel
Production Year: 1995 - 1998
Length: spots, 30 and 40 seconds each
Languages: English, French, Spanish, International
Item Code: 325

Featured are live action spots on the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting. Covered also are UNICEF’s year 2000 goals: universal immunization, elimination of vitamin A deficiency, universal salt iodination and use of oral rehydration therapy.
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UNICEF Animated Spot Reel
Production Year: 1995 - 1998
Length: spots, 10, 30 and 60 seconds
Languages: English
Item Code: 324

This series highlights the best of UNICEF’s animated public service announcements on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting and health messages.
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Convention on the Rights of  the Child Spots
Production Year: 1997
Length: 3 spots, 30 seconds each
Languages: Non-verbal with music
Item Code: 268

Spots about education in China, health care in Guinea and water in Egypt promote the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Told through a series of powerful pictures and accompanied by an original soundtrack.
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The Global Movement for Children

The Global Movement for Children: Video Tool Kit
Production Year: 2001
Length: Ten Ways to Change the World with Children -(3:20)
Ten Cartoons To Change The World - (5:00)
Television B-Roll (40:30):
Language: English
Item Code: 370

This Video Tool Kit includes two short videos for community screenings and television, and a video B-roll that can be re-edited for local use:

Ten Ways to Change the World With Children
A dynamic three-minute video that calls on everyone to take ten key actions on behalf of children. Across a world divided by poverty, disease and conflict, we hear children speak out for their rights.

Ten Cartoons to Change the World
A six-minute animated rallying call for the Global Movement, combining the work of some of the best animators in the world.

The Global Movement for Children Video B-roll
Forty minutes of video footage including the 1990 World Summit for Children, the challenges of HIV/AIDS, conflict and poverty, profiles of young activists in their communities, mass mobilization for children's rights, political leadership and investment in children's education and health.
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