CD-ROM captures colourful Amazon diversity

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CD-ROM captures colourful Amazon diversity

Tuesday, 24 June 1997: A new CD-ROM, featuring indigenous children and women of the Amazon, makes its appearance today at the Earth Summit + 5, a United Nations General Assembly Special Session to review progress towards sustainable development since the Rio Summit in 1992.

Entitled Tsamaran, with great pride: a journey through the magical Amazon and produced by UNICEF Peru, it is "a highly creative exploration of indigenous traditions and life, and our common right to be different."

It includes 11 video clips, 400 unpublished photographs and more than 100 original sound tracks, as well as 200 pages of updated information on the seven rivers that converge in the Amazon and 10 of the indigenous villages along its banks.

Tsamaran is a magical trip to some of the world's most beautiful places. During the journey children explain the history of their people, their way of life and the challenges ahead of them.

An exciting interactive game, Tsamaran's Trail, depicts the perils awaiting those who venture out in search of Paititi, the lost city where everyone has the right to be different and respected.

"The 21st century presents us with one of the greatest challenges," said UNICEF Peru Representative Ann-Lis Svensson. "Living together in mutual respect for each other, realizing we are equal but belong to different cultures and beliefs, strengthening our ties, achieving justice and equal opportunities for all -- our different cultures are part of the richness of humanity, the same richness that is mirrored in the sounds, shapes and colours of the plants, forests and wildlife of the Amazon."

The CD-ROM is on sale at the UNICEF exhibition in the UN Secretariat Building basement (near the Viennese cafe) in New York. Proceeds will go towards UNICEF programmes in health and education for children and women in the Peruvian Amazon basin.

Please email media@unicef.org with comments or requests for more information, quoting CF/DOC/PR/1997/25.