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El tercer boletín de las redes de comunicadores infantiles de Honduras

The third bulletin by the young communicators of Honduras

 

 

 

 

World Congress Against the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents Comes to a Close in Brazil

Nations leave with blueprint for action in the fight to protect the world´s children

RIO DE JANEIRO, 28 November 2008 – The sexual exploitation of children is not inevitable. That was the message coming out of Rio de Janeiro today where 137 governments have been meeting with children, international organizations, NGOs and private sector companies.

While those gathered in Brazil recognize that ending child sexual exploitation is a long and difficult battle, the organizing partners say countries are in a better position now to win the fight as a result of days of work developing a blueprint for action called the Rio Declaration and Action Plan to Prevent and Stop the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents.

“The Rio Action Plan contains important advances in relation to previous documents and points out new strategies to counter new forms of sexual exploitation, such as pornography in the Internet, child trafficking, growing migration around the world. The Brazilian government itself has launched a hot line to help solve crimes in the internet, that have also become more easily punishable with the law sanction by president Lula in the opening of the world congress” said Carmen Oliveira, Brazil´s Undersecretary for Promotion of Children´s Rights. “The responsibility assumed by private initiative and international organizations in Rio to channel resources so that poorer countries may develop action plans to live up to the commitment of the Rio plan is also a very meaningful result from this meeting.”

On prevention, the Rio Action Plan stresses that a comprehensive strategy is needed, which comprises the set of laws, policies, regulations and services needed from across all social sectors – especially social welfare, education, health, security and justice – to support prevention and respond to risks.

But effective prevention will also require a shift in social attitudes and practices that condone sexual exploitation of children, such as child marriage.

“There is no single intervention that protects children from sexual exploitation,” said Nils Kastberg, UNICEF Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean. “Building and strengthening child protection systems is critical and requires action from all actors to provide children with the protection they deserve.”

The Rio Action Plan also calls on governments to enact laws that protect all children in their jurisdiction, including undocumented migrants or those who have been trafficked so that every child is provided protection under the law. Governments are also asked to pass laws that do not criminalize children for crimes they have committed as a result of their sexual exploitation.

“Despite advances such as improvements in national legal framework in a large number of countries, increased initiatives to combat trafficking of children through cross border and more engagement of agencies at all levels in preventing and addressing these crimes, many children remain vulnerable to sexual exploitation,” said Carmen Madrinan, Executive Director of ECPAT International, “due to lack of knowledge on the prevalence of sexual exploitation of children, social tolerance and legal impunity, limited and inconsistent application of laws, which leave doors open for perpetrators to shop for sex with children across the globe, and the failure to provide assistance for recovery and reintegration to child victims that heightens vulnerability to re-entrapment. ”

Unlike previous World Congresses, where the recommendations of young participants were prepared separately, in Rio the young people participated fully in the drafting of the Rio Action Plan.

“Children and adolescents are not just victims of sexual exploitation but are also part of the solution”, said Mr. Lennart Reinius, President of the NGO Group for the Convention for the Rights of the Child. “We had a unique opportunity to have young people as equal partners in this Congress. Now it is up to all of us to ensure that we live up to the commitments we have made in order to achieve a positive, tangible impact on the lives of children and adolescents around the world.”

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

 

 

Congreso Mundial Contra la Explotación Sexual Infantil

 

http://www.unicef.org/lac/overview_13682.htm

Surinamese President Gets Kids’ Advice About Child Abuse

Read what they had to say

By Zarissa Windzak

  

 

Paramaribo, Suriname November 2008 - The International Day Against Violence Against Children isn’t something you talk about once a year. One day just isn’t enough. Everyday, we all should work on ways to protect children,” Lillian Ferrier says. She is the chairperson of the Foundation for Human Development in Suriname, and not only a child psychologist, but also hardcore soldier when it comes to fighting for child’s rights. She recently held a 7-day campaign, called “Be Nice to Kids.” The main idea of the campaign was the participation of children–Even when it comes to the decision-making. Together with the help of Lillian and the Foundation for Human Development, more than 400 school children wrote letters to the president of Suriname, Ronald Venetiaan, all advising him in their own words how to protect them against violence.

 

These are just a few letters out of the hundreds. The children who wrote these letters are from schools such as the Renckewitzschool, Christiaan Davidsschool, the Saint Ignatiusschool, Gijsbertus school and Flu I school.

    

 

To: President Ronald Venetiaan

 

My name is Darrel and I’m in the fourth grade. Children should not have to be beat up. I don’t want my mother to beat up my little sister anymore. If my sister doesn’t want to go to bed my mother hits her and then my mother leaves and stays away for a whole week. I have to make food for my sister and sometimes I don’t have time to do my homework. Sometimes my cousin does my homework for me.    

 

 

Dear Sir,

 

I think it’s bad that kids get abused. That’s why I’m writing you this letter:

 

Dear Mr. President, I think it’s really terrible that kids get abused by their fathers, mothers, relatives, teachers, baby-sitters, or friends. Sir, if you want to prevent mental abuse, you can do this: 1. make sure kids don’t get tied when they go to sleep, 2. make sure kids don’t get laughed at and 3. That kids don’t get frightened so they can’t sleep. If you want to prevent physical abuse, prevent parents from giving children scars or skin burns. If you want to prevent sexual abuse, make sure that men and women from touching children on their private areas. If some people do it anyway you should send them to jail. You can choose how long they have to stay there.

 

From: Kevin

For: the Nice President Ronald Venetiaan

 

To:  the President of the Republic of Suriname

 

Dear Sir,

 

I wonder why children get abused at home or school. They get hit by their parents and by their teachers. I wonder why children get beat up with wires or scoop spoons, and get scars and bruises on their bodies. I ask you mister President of the Republic of Suriname to not let kids get treated this way. Not even if they get low marks on tests.

                                                                                                                   Alan

 

My name is Anthony

I am 10- years old

I go to the Christiaan Davidsschool

 

My message is that the president should talk about child abuse on our independence day so parents won’t hit their children

 

 

My name is Keith

I am 8- years old

 

President, if you don’t want children in Suriname to get abused you have to put the pictures and names of people who abuse kids in the newspapers for everyone to see who they are. They shouldn’t be let out of jail too.

 

 

A breeze of fresh air at UNICEF’s Year End Meeting

 
By Cordelle Lazzare 

Bridgetown, November 18, 2008 -

The UNECLAC*1 /UNICEF Conference on Social Policies for Children’s Rights and UNICEF’s Year End Meeting – “Knowledge Building through Partnerships” were held this month. Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, The Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Turks and Caicos Islands were all represented at the meeting, over the four day period.

On Thursday, November 20th, young people took the stage and captured the meeting by storm. If anyone associated the words immature and inexperience with youth, their thoughts took a one- hundred-and-eighty-degrees turn. The youth commanded the attention of the audience from the start of their presentations until the end. The audience got so wrapped up into the moment that the expressions on their faces showed that they wanted more.

Ms. Je-Melia Maloney, founder of the “Emerging Global Leaders Barbados”*2, presented her social policies participation – her experience in the Junior 8 (J8) Summit*3 . Ms. Maloney was the sole representative of Latin America and the Caribbean at the summit held this year in Japan. Ms. Maloney’s participation in the summit gave her the opportunity to discuss focal areas of interest with young people from around the world, including themes such as poverty and development, global warming and climate change and global health.

But overall, something greater arose from this summit she said, the “Chitose Declaration”*4 . This declaration entails all the problems which the youth of the world face and devises ways forward. But there was one more surprise: she was chosen by her peers to meet with world leaders, among whom was the President of the United States of America, George W. Bush. She highlighted that it was an honor to have met and interviewed President Bush, but the greatest honor of all was that she was chosen by her peers. She was awarded a trophy by UNICEF for her dedicated service to youth.

By the time Ms. Maloney had wrapped up her presentation the applause was great and the audience was eager for more. Whispers spread across the conference room. The most prevalent one was, “The future is really bright with young people like her!”
Next was Ms. Christaneisha Soleyn, a member of our very own Youth Adolescent Communicators

Network -Barbados, who presented recommendations for children and youth-friendly social policies. Ms. Soleyn began talking about health/sex and family/social issues which hinder the progress of children and young people globally. As a young journalist, Ms. Soleyn used her insight to propose recommendations for the advancement of youth via the media. First, she focused on health and sex suggestions. She recommended the development of a cartoon program addressed to children, which could help parents teach children about their sexuality.

Among her many ideas, she suggested the development of internet blogs, and a call-in-hotline and rehabilitation program for troubled children and teenagers. She made a strong appeal for UNICEF to draw attention to and probe legislature to revise the equality in the age of consent and the age an adolescent can obtain healthcare without parents’ approval.

She then tied her recommendations for family and social issues into her presentation. Among many recommendations she highlighted the need to push the use of television and radio to promote the need for fathers to take up their roles in the family and practice good parenting skills. She also strongly pushed for better financial and emotional support for teenage parents. These were only a few of the recommendations made by this brilliant young mind, who seems to be an upcoming global leader.

By the end of Ms. Soleyn’s presentation, the audience gave the impression to have an unquenchable thirst for more. After the wonderful presentations of the two young female panelists, the sole male, Mr. Danny Babb, youth group representative and Interim Director of “Team ACTION Project Implementation Unit (TAPIU)”, was to follow.

The tension in the room hinted that the audience expected something great, and Mr. Babb knew he could not disappoint. Well it would be remiss of anyone reporting on this event not to admit that he did deliver in a magnificent way. His brilliant mastery of the English language eased his presentation geared in giving recommendations for children and youth-friendly social policies. He was very witty and flowed like a professional ballroom dancer doing the Waltz. He presented his recommendations beautifully and the one which stroke the audience was the need to develop clubs/activities to keep the interest of children and youth, which would keep them out of unnecessary trouble.

At the end of the session, the audience’s thirst was quenched and they were pleased to see that amidst the world’s problems, there are still positive young people who are willing to make an encouraging contribution to society.

The entire panel consisted of Barbadian nationals who have made and will continue to make their country proud.

ICDB annual award goes to Ghanaian and Chinese broadcasters

By Elizabeth Kiem

NEW YORK, USA, 11 November 2008 – Broadcasters from Ghana and the People’s Republic of China were named the winners of the 2008 International Children’s Day of Broadcasting Award in a ceremony held last night and attended by the regional finalists in the annual contest.

For the first time since establishing the award in 1994, UNICEF selected a radio broadcaster as well as a television broadcaster as the recipients.

Producers from the ‘Curious Minds’ youth programme on Ghana Broadcasting Corporation accepted the radio award. “I’m very excited. I’m even short of words,” said producer Naa Aforkor Tetteh, 16. “We’re going back home and telling our friends, ‘We really made it.’”

From the finalists in television broadcasting, the China Central Television children’s channel in China was selected for its hour-long documentary ‘On the Way’, which chronicled the daily commutes to school of 20 children from across China.

“This issue is not for children only,” said producer Cao Ning. “All of us are ‘on our way’ towards the development of our goals.”

‘The World We Want’
The theme for the award, ‘The World We Want’, inspired programming for the 2007 International Children’s Day of Broadcasting, held last December, in over 80 countries worldwide.

“Children are the absolute priority,” said nominee Hector Lorenso, who helped produce three hours of youth programming about the needs and rights of children on Radio Pio in Angola. “That’s the slogan

we came up with after we talked to children about too much violence and not enough play.”

Other regional winners included radio broadcasters from Nepal, Brazil, Iran and China. The television finalists were Channel I from Bangladesh for its feature on children with autism; Germany’s Der Kinderkanal von ARD und ZDF (KI.KA) for ‘TRICKBOXX in Arabia’; Channels Television in Nigeria; Peru’s Asociacion Nacional de Television Red TV; and Spacetoons Kids TV in Iraq.

Children’s voices on the air
UNICEF launched the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting, or ICDB, in 1991 to encourage broadcasters worldwide to spread awareness of children’s issues. 

 “Over the years, ICDB has grown to incorporate broadcasters on every continent,” said ICDB Executive Producer Karen Cirillo. “In recent years, it has also encouraged higher levels of youth participation, which has led to many all-youth broadcasts.”

Young people participate by writing, reporting, producing and presenting programmes on the issues that affect them.

The next ICDB will take place on 1 March 2009 with the theme ‘Unite for Children: Tune in to Kids!’

E TVC Infantil Los niños son los más afectados

El Saneamiento es una prioridad para Nicaragua” – VI Festival de la radio y la televisión a favor de la infancia .

vineta 1 pedrito y criss

vineta 2 pedrito y criss

vineta 3 ya musicalizada

vineta 4 pedrito y criss

 

 vineta 5 pedrito y criss

botar basura es mejor cantar

juguemos a recoger mas basura

lavarse las manos jugando

Nicaragua info

1)         ¿Cómo se llama la red?

Red de niñas, niños y adolescentes comunicadores (es decir no tienen un nombre específico)

2)         ¿Qué tipo de medios usa la red?

La radio, un blog, revista.

3)         ¿Cuál son los objetivos de la red?

Empoderar a niñas, niños y adolescentes de sus derechos y desarrollar competencias de comunicación para que puedan elevar su voz en los diversos espacios de participación en sus respectivas comunidades, a fin de que puedan abogar y aportar sobre los aspectos que les interesan.

 

Los resultados previstos a alcanzar son:

Cambios de comportamientos, actitudes y prácticas en las y los adolescentes.

Compromiso político de las autoridades municipales con las y los adolescentes.

Movilización social en los temas que los adolescentes planteen como prioridad en sus agendas.

 

4)         ¿Cómo las redes logran estos objetivos?

1.  A través de la capacitación

2. A través de la movilización social

3. Con el apoyo de las ONGs locales

4. Con el monitoreo y seguimiento de la ONG coordinadora.

 

5)         ¿Cuántos niñas y niños participan en la red?

500 de forma directa y en réplica 2,000 niñas, niños y adolescentes

6)         ¿Qué formación reciben los niños?

Ciclos de capacitación

La capacitación de las y los adolescentes comunicadores estará basada en contenidos temáticos transversales que se desarrollarán a lo largo de los cuatro años.

 

Entre otros temas:

Derechos humanos de la niñez y la adolescencia

Desarrollo humano y pobreza

Equidad de género/generacional, autoestima

Construcción ciudadana (empoderamiento de las y los adolescentes)

Comunicación intercultural

Animación sociocultural

Comunicación y desarrollo del adolescente

Prevención de la violencia contra la niñez

Salud sexual y reproductiva

VHI y el sida

Medio ambiente

Saneamiento

 

La capacitación de las y los adolescentes se realizará en tres etapas a desarrollarse en cuatro años, con una periodicidad de 5 talleres al año, (un taller cada dos meses) con una duración de tres días cada taller.

 

Se ha determinado una currícula para la capacitación cuyos contenidos temáticos serán distribuidos en los cuatro años. En el último año se desarrollarán competencias para adolescentes destacados en la Red que estarían asumiendo el rol de Facilitadores en los talleres de capacitación a los nuevos integrantes de la Red.

 

1er. Año – Básico                                                    2do. Año – Básico

1.- Taller Introductorio                                               1.- Música

2.- Fotografía                                                             2.- Danza                  

3.- Impresos (redacción, diseño)                            3.- Títeres

 4.- Multimedia

4.- Teatro                                                                   5.- Televisión

5.- Radio                                                                               

 

3er. Año – Especialización

1.- Radio

2.- Impresos

3.- Animación sociocultural (Teatro, Música y Danza a ejecutarse en 5 talleres para cada especialidad)

 

4to. Año: Formación de Facilitadores

Comunicación para el desarrollo

Estrategias de comunicación para contextos particulares

Campañas de comunicación social

Abogacía y movilización social

Construyendo redes

Monitoreo y evaluación

Herramientas de comunicación para el manejo grupal

Liderazgo adolescente y juvenil, entre otras.

(a ejecutarse en 6 talleres)

 

7)         ¿Dónde funciona la Red en la ciudad o en áreas rurales?

En áreas rurales y ciudad.

21 municipios del país (tres de manera municipal bajo la nueva estratetegia)

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