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Youth journalists use video to urge action on child rights in the Caribbean
NEW YORK, USA, Guyana, 25 March 2008 – It’s time for action, not just talk: That was the message young journalists brought to the Caribbean Community’s Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) meeting, held last week in Georgetown, Guyana.
Young filmmakers express themselves as ‘OneminutesJr’ project expands its reach
NEW YORK, USA, 9 January 2008 – After five years of running workshops in Eastern and Central Europe, UNICEF expanded the reach of the ‘OneminutesJr’ youth filmmaking project to other regions during 2007.
Iraqi children share their experience in film about friends separated by conflict
NEW YORK, USA, 3 January 2008 – Even amidst the security challenges facing children in Iraq every day, a group of young people there have found a way to create a poignant short film about life in Baghdad.
‘Our Stories’ project: Children around the world share and connect online
NEW YORK, USA, 10 December 2007 – A multitude of voices have joined together to launch ‘Our Stories’ – an initiative that will collect, preserve and share stories from young people around the world.
ICDB 2007 asks youths to speak out on the air about ‘The World We Want’
NEW YORK, USA, 7 December 2007 – This Sunday, 9 December, broadcasters around the world will join together to ‘tune in to kids’ as they celebrate the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting.
International Children’s Day of Broadcasting announces 2007 award to Thai network
NEW YORK, USA, 28 November 2007 – UNICEF and the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences have jointly announced the regional winners of the International Children's Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) Awards, for broadcasters who cover children’s issues creatively and encourage youth participation.
Argentine youths win ‘Make a Difference!’ one-minute video contest
NEW YORK, USA, 18 June 2007 – UNICEF congratulated youth filmmakers sponsored by Argentina’s Fundación Kine Cultural y Educativa for their winning one-minute video, ‘Bebe – más allá de la niñez’, in the second annual Media Magic Make a Difference! one-minute video contest.
Workshop provides new tools to Jordan’s budding journalists
AMMAN, Jordan, 31 May 2007 – Hala, 13, is a student in Grade 8 at a school in Amman. She is also a budding television journalist with significant experience for someone her age.
Balkan teens produce short films on child health and environmental issues
BELGRADE, Serbia, 3 May 2007 – Twelve teenagers from all over the Balkans gathered here in the Serbian capital in April to produce short videos focusing on such topics as social exclusion, the plight of Roma children and the challenges of teen smoking and drinking.
New Turkish TV show gives teenage videographers a platform
ISTANBUL, Turkey, 12 April 2007 – A five-day OneMinutesJr. video workshop hosted last week by Turkish National Television (TRT) will enable youths aged 12 to 20 to produce personal video stories about their dreams, passions and expectations – but also about their fears and sometimes very real problems at home or at school.
UNICEF presents awards to youth radio producers in Mexico and Zambia
NEW YORK, USA, 11 April 2007 – UNICEF has presented prizes to the first-place winners in a youth media competition organized in cooperation with OneWorld Radio.
Lights, camera, action! South Africa hosts 5th World Summit on Media for Children
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 27 March 2007 – It was lights, camera and loads of action as the 5th World Summit on Media for Children opened here on Saturday evening. People of all ages and nationalities descended upon the Sandton Convention Centre for an evening of music, dance, festivities and, of course, food.
Through ‘Radio Rookies’ training programme, youth voices fill the New York air
NEW YORK, USA, 15 March 2007 – A producer speaks into the microphone, conveying a personal story that will soon air on the radio. His is not the voice of a traditional reporter. It is the voice of a teenager.
UNICEF Nigeria helps local radio producers raise bird flu awareness
BENIN, Nigeria, 12 March 2007 – Local radio has become the latest weapon in the battle against the spread of avian influenza in Nigeria.
At Burkinabe festival, youth jury gives UNICEF award to child rights film
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkino Faso, 12 March 2007 – At an awards ceremony held here earlier this month, during FESPACO, Africa’s largest film festival, UNICEF honoured ‘Un matin bonne heure’ (Early One Morning) with a prize for the promotion of child rights. Guinean director Gahité Fofana received the UNICEF trophy and 2 million CFA francs.
West African children take to the airwaves to make their voices heard
MONROVIA, Liberia and FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, 18 December 2006 – This year’s ICDB on 10 December served as clarion call for broadcasters in Liberia and Sierra Leone to engage the voices of young people, providing them with a platform to air their views on reversing the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
UNICEF-supported film voted BBC World ‘Best Documentary’
NEW YORK, USA, 12 December 2006 – A film about Biru Malik, a nine-year-old boy who spends his days preparing funeral pyres on the banks of the Ganges in India, is the winner of the BBC World viewers’ poll for the Best Documentary of 2006.
International Children’s Day of Broadcasting 2006 to focus on fighting HIV/AIDS
NEW YORK, USA, 8 December 2006 – Behind the scenes, in front of the cameras and on the air, youth around the world are using media to express and empower themselves.
‘Our Voice’: UNICEF and Lebanon TV launch youth-produced series
NEW YORK, USA, 1 December 2006 – The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) and UNICEF are showcasing the viewpoints of the country’s million-strong youth audience with a new television series called ‘Sawtna’, which means ‘Our Voice’.
Caracol Radio brings young voices to Colombia’s airwaves
NEW YORK, USA, 27 November 2006 – Colombia’s children and young people have actively participated in the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) since 1997 and have twice received the special honour presented at the International Emmy Awards for television programming produced to celebrate ICDB.
Susan Sarandon presents children’s programming honours at International Emmys
NEW YORK, USA, 21 November 2006 – UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Susan Sarandon presented an award for children’s broadcasting at the 34th International Emmy Awards gala in New York last night.
Youth radio airs peer-to-peer HIV/AIDS education in Georgia
TBILISI, Georgia, 14 November 2006 – Despite a large global increase in HIV cases over the past decade, Georgia still has a low rate of HIV prevalence rate.
Botswana radio training helps young people speak their minds for all to hear
NEW YORK, 10 November 2006 – Thirteen children between the ages of 10 and 16 recently completed a radio production training workshop in Gabarone, Botswana.
Philippines youth journalists share their views through children’s TV network
MANILA, 6 November 2006 – The Kabataan News Network (KNN) is the centerpiece of UNICEF’s communications work for and with adolescents in the Philippines. The network’s production crew consists of camera people, reporters and production assistants, all of whom are in their teens.
Youth journalists interview Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza on key issues
BUJUMBURA, Burundi, 17 October 2006 – Despite his government’s cautious relations with private radio stations and journalists, President Pierre Nkurunziza last week granted a one-hour candid interview to 14 child journalists and warmly praised UNICEF for training the youths.
UNICEF Radio wins awards for programming on children at risk
NEW YORK, USA, 13 October 2006 – Children affected by conflict in the Middle East and the drought in the Horn of Africa were the subjects of two UNICEF Radio stories that received prestigious broadcasting awards last night.
In Aceh, Indonesia, children’s video diaries document their lives after the tsunami
NEW YORK, USA, 13 July 2006 – At the sprawling Meulaboh camp in Indonesia’s Aceh province, Syahrul, 12, focuses his video camera on a budding yellow flower. Syahrul is one of thousands of Acehnese children living in camps for people displaced by the December 2004 tsunami.
Team UNICEF takes to the football pitch in a new television campaign
NEW YORK, USA, 18 May 2006 – UNICEF launched a new set of dynamic public service announcements today: ‘Superfans’.
Bhutan TV documentary wins UNICEF prize at film festival highlighting children
MUNICH, Germany, 15 May 2006 – ‘The Domaseller & The Badamwalla’, a TV documentary about children in Bhutan, has emerged as the winner of the UNICEF Special Prize at the 2006 Prix Jeunesse International Festival in Munich.
Community radio programme gives children a loud and clear voice
DILI, Timer-Leste, 29 December 2005 - If you are in Los Palos, Timor-Leste, on a Monday night, don’t expect to hear the latest music hits when you tune into 100.1 FM. What you are more likely to find are programmes of teenagers discussing the importance of education, or a drama written and produced by the youngsters about a girl being sold off by her family for an early marriage.
International Children’s Day of Broadcasting celebrated around the world
NEW YORK, USA, 12 December 2005 – Children and broadcasters alike celebrated International Children’s Day of Broadcasting Sunday with special programmes on TV and radio stations around the world.
Special children’s broadcasting award presented at Emmy gala
NEW YORK, USA, 21 November 2005 – A short film that satirizes corporal punishment has won the special International Children’s Day of Broadcasting prize at the 33rd International Emmy Awards Gala in New York City.
ABU CASBAA UNICEF Child Rights Award 2005
The ABU and CASBAA are now calling on Asia Pacific broadcasters and producers for entries for the ABU CASBAA UNICEF Child Rights Award 2005.
‘Kids’ Crossroads’: Teens produce cross-border TV programme in the Caucasus
NEW YORK, 25 February 2004 – In Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, young people are starting to take over the airwaves. Their mission: To educate their peers, their parents, neighbours and decision-makers through a new youth-produced TV programme, ‘Kids’ Crossroads’.
Broadcasters around the world ‘Tune in to Kids’
NEW YORK, 21 December 2004 – The International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) kicked off in Jordan at a television station on Friday, 17 December 2004. Around 50 kids worked from the early hours of the freezing morning to late at night taking on the roles of broadcasters, sound technicians, and producers. On radio, television, and Internet radio, children from all parts of the country took live calls from Chicago, Bahrain, Dubai, and from other countries.
TVCultura builds network for children’s television in Latin America
NEW YORK, 6 December 2004 – For the fourth consecutive year, the Brazilian channel TVCultura has brought together a network of Latin American channels and independent producers, to produce special programmes for the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB).
Real lives
MAPUTO, Mozambique, 2 December 2004 – Dulce Massunda, aged 18, Ruben Vicente and Faidate Abdula, both aged 17, are three young broadcasters who present their own programme on Radio Mozambique.
OneMinutesJr: Young people tell their own stories through film
NEW YORK, 26 November 2004 – The OneMinutesJr are films made exclusively by young people aged 15-20. Participants write the scripts, and also direct, film and edit their own movies. The topics cover a whole range of issues that concern children and adolescents, such as social inclusion, family, dreams, violence, and HIV and AIDS. Any relevant topic is acceptable, as long as it is one minute long.
ATN Bangla wins International Children’s Day of Broadcasting Award
NEW YORK, 22 November 2004 – ATN Bangla from Bangladesh has won the special International Children’s Day of Broadcasting Award at the 32nd International Emmy Awards Gala in New York City.
UNICEF reaches out to broadcast news professionals
ALGARVE, Portugal, 19 November 2004 – Some 500 broadcast news professionals are gathered here for the largest-ever international broadcast news conference – News Xchange 2004. In attendance are journalists from CNN, BBC, APTN, Reuters, and other major news organizations. UNICEF, reaching out to news broadcasters around the world, is represented by a delegation headed by Executive Director Carol Bellamy.
2004 International Academy/UNICEF Award will recognize best TV programming by children
NEW YORK, 17 November 2004 – Every year at the annual International Emmy Awards Gala, the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and UNICEF present a special award to the broadcaster whose programming best captures the spirit of the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB).
‘KNN’: Philippine youth produce their own TV programming
MANILA/NEW YORK, 4 November 2004 – On Saturday morning TV in the Philippines, 17-year-old Athea talks about the infamous but delicious local fruit, the durian. Later, a young reporter discusses how tribal wars disrupt children's schooling and make young people feel unsafe in their own homes. These are some of the many features shown on the ‘Kabataan News Network’, whose content is produced entirely by young people – a first for the Philippines.
Radio Television Hong Kong wins Child Rights Award for second time
ALMATY/HONG KONG/BANGKOK, 8 October 2004 - Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) is the winner of the 2004 CASBAA/ABU UNICEF Child Rights Award, which was presented during a gala presentation at the annual ABU Prizes Awards Ceremony held in Almaty, Kazakhstan last week in conjunction with the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union’s General Assembly.
4th World Summit on Media for Children and Adolescents
UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy issued a challenge to the world's mass to media to harness their power for the good of all children as part of her keynote address at the opening of the 4th World Summit on Media for Children and Adolescents, being held this week, 19-23 April, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
UNICEF lauds China Central Television’s work for and with children
UNICEF honours China Central Television (CCTV) for its support for the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting and its contribution to quality broadcasting for and with children.
ABU/CASBAA UNICEF Award
The ABU and CASBAA are now calling on Asia Pacific broadcasters for the ABU CASBAA UNICEF Child Rights Award 2003. The Award is made each year to the best television programming on children's rights produced in the Asia-Pacific region.
The 3rd World Summit on Children and the Media
Held in Thessaloniki, Greece, 23-26 March, 2001, the Summit was sponsored by the European Children's Television Centre to place children's media as a high priority in all countries around the world.
Asia-Pacific Television Forum, 11-13 March 2002, Bangkok, Thailand
The forum will pose the question: How can we ensure access to TV for our children that promotes and protects their right to information, education and quality entertainment?
Asia-Pacific TV Forum adopts recommendations to improve children's programming
Bangkok (13 March 2002) - Representatives of leading television, advertising, corporate, government and civil society organizations from across the East Asia-Pacific region agreed to a series of recommendations aimed at building sustained partnerships for quality children's television.
Commonwealth broadcasters win awards for excellence
2 May 2002, MANCHESTER - The South African Broadcasting Corporation, New Delhi Television and Doordarshan, India were among the major award winners at the 24th annual awards dinner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA).
Radio Television Hong Kong Wins 2002 ABU/CASBAA UNICEF Child Rights Award
Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) has been named the winner of the 2002 ABU/CASBAA UNICEF Child Rights Award, presented 7 November 2002 at the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union’s annual meeting in Tokyo.
Can television save children’s lives?
The Children’s Broadcasting Foundation for Africa and UNICEF present a children’s festival, seminars and workshops at the Southern African International Film and Television Market (Sithengi) November 9-14, 2002 in Cape Town, South Africa.
UNICEF brings "magic" to the international Emmys Festival
NEW YORK, 24 November 2002 -- UNICEF launched a new website which showcases media projects by, with and for children called MAGIC at the International Emmys Festival in New York today.
Star News India wins children's broadcasting award
NEW YORK, November 25, 2002 - Star News has been named as the winner of the special International Children's Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) Award, conferred jointly by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (IATAS) and UNICEF. The award highlights the efforts of broadcasters worldwide to promote children's rights and children's participation in broadcasting.
