Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
November 27, 2008
Congreso Mundial Contra la Explotación Sexual Infantil
November 27, 2008
http://www.unicef.org/lac/overview_13682.htm
Surinamese President Gets Kids’ Advice About Child Abuse
November 27, 2008
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
November 27, 2008
By Cordelle Lazzare
© UNICEF Eastern Caribbean Office/2008/Haynes Youth adolescent journalist Cordelle Lazarre (left) in discussion with Je-Meila Maloney (centre) who was presented with a special trophy for her outstanding achievements in 2008, and fellow adolescent journalist Christaneisha Soleyn in discussion.
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
© UNICEF Eastern Caribbean Office/2008/Haynes Barbadian youth parliamentarian, Senator Damien Griffith (second from left) in discussion with adolescents Je-Meila Maloney, Christaneisha Soleyn and Cordelle Lazarre.
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
November 12, 2008
By Elizabeth Kiem
© UNICEF/2008/Markisz From left: Kingsley Obeng-Kyereh, Gideon Tuffuor Amponsah and Naa Aforkor Tetteh of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation’s ‘Curious Minds’ programme were the winners of the 2008 ICDB Award for radio.
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
© UNICEF/2008/Markisz Radio correspondent Femi Oke of WNYC’s ‘The Takeaway’ presents the 2008 ICDB award to Cao Ning of China Central Television for the youth-centred documentary ‘On the Way’.
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.
© UNICEF/2008/Markisz Dr. Shihab Jamjoom (right) from Spacetoons Kids TV in Iraq, one of the finalists for the ICDB Award, with the Chief of UNICEF
“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
November 11, 2008
El Saneamiento es una prioridad para Nicaragua” – VI Festival de la radio y la televisión a favor de la infancia .
November 6, 2008
vineta 1 pedrito y criss
vineta 2 pedrito y criss
vineta 3 ya musicalizada
vineta 5 pedrito y criss
botar basura es mejor cantar
juguemos a recoger mas basura
lavarse las manos jugando
Nicaragua info
November 6, 2008
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)
Honduras Info
November 6, 2008
1) ¿Cómo se llama la red?
Las Redes de Comunicadores Infantiles y Juveniles de Honduras
2) ¿Qué tipo de medios usa la red?
La labor de la Red de Comunicadores Infantiles y Juveniles no se limita únicamente a los medios escritos, radiofónicos y televisivos, sino que también se orienta en la organización de campañas de comunicación a través de medios alternativos como volantes, trifolios, teatro popular y capacitaciones impartidas en los centros escolares de sus municipios.
3) ¿Cuál son los objetivos de la red?
La idea de construir redes de Comunicadores Infantiles es para que sirvieran de voz a las otras instancias de participación infantil, naciendo y dependiendo totalmente desde sus municipios con el apoyo de medios de comunicación local, el apoyo de las autoridades municipales, de la sociedad civil y de los padres de familia.
Otro objetivo importante en las Redes es que son la voz para la exigibilidad y garantía de los Derechos de las niñas, niños y jóvenes, y hacer visible el poder del municipio para solucionar los problemas que enfrentan la niñez y la juventud.
4) ¿Cómo las redes logran estos objetivos?
La Red de Comunicadores Infantiles y Juveniles incorpora la capacitación como un elemento clave para alcanzar la excelencia en sus propósitos, unificando temáticas, metodologías, y fortaleciendo el manejo de las formas de comunicación para que haya cohesión en el trabajo que realizan en sus comunidades.
5) ¿Cuántos niñas y niños participan en la red?
Cada grupo están integrando por un promedio de 10 a 40 niñas, niños y jóvenes que son quienes participan directamente. Las Redes existen en todo el país, llegando a un total de 73 y funcionan dependientes de los Programas Municipales de Infancia, Adolescencia y Juventud que son promovidos por UNICEF
6) ¿Qué formación reciben los niños?
La Red de Comunicadores Infantiles y Juveniles incorpora la capacitación como un elemento clave para alcanzar la excelencia en sus propósitos, unificando temáticas, metodologías, y fortaleciendo el manejo de las formas de comunicación para que haya cohesión en el trabajo que realizan en sus comunidades.
Los niños, niñas y jóvenes coordinadores, vivencian espacios de capacitación en aspectos básicos del desarrollo infantil como:
· Derechos del Niño y La Niña (CDN)
· Liderazgo,
Autoestima
Gobiernos Escolares y Estudiantiles
· Situación de la Infancia en sus municipios.
· Organización infantil y movilización comunitaria.
· Producción Televisiva y Radiofónica
· Técnicas de entrevista y Elaboración de Guiones Televisivos y Radiofónicos
· Equidad de Género
· La Niñez y el Desarrollo de los municipios
· Roles de un Ciudadano ejemplar
· Cuidados de salud, con énfasis en la prevención de enfermedades e integrando la prevención de la drogadicción, el alcoholismo, tabaquismo y VIH-SIDA.
En estas capacitaciones se hace uso de una metodología participativa, lúdica, dinámica y creativa que combina las exposiciones cortas con trabajos prácticos individuales y de grupo, ponencias, juegos, ejercicios de relajación, lectura de cuentos y videos, que permiten mantener la atención y participación de los niños y niñas.
En muchas ocasiones algunos talleres son impartidos por comunicadores infantiles que han adquirido una experiencia y comparten sus conocimientos con los nuevos integrantes mediante la metodología de “niño a niño”, logrando así un efecto multiplicador de los conocimientos recibidos.
7) ¿Dónde funciona la Red en la ciudad o en áreas rurales?
Las Redes existen en todo el país
El Salvador Info
November 6, 2008
1) ¿Cómo se llama la red?
NOTI-WORLD
2) ¿Qué tipo de medios usa la red?
Radio Y Televisión
3) ¿Cuál son los objetivos de la red?
Niñas, niños y adolescentes que son la voz de las niñez Salvadoreña en las temáticas que les preocupan, a la vez que fomentan una cultura de respeto a los Derechos de la Niñez
4) ¿Cómo las redes logran estos objetivos?
A través de alianzas con medios de comunicación nacional
5) ¿Cuántos niñas y niños participan en la red?
45 NIÑAS Y NIÑOS DE DOS MUNICIPIOS DEL PAIS
6) ¿Qué formación reciben los niños?
En temas básicos tales como: Derechos de la Niñez, educación, salud, VIH y SIDA, convivencia pacifica, liderazgo, autoestima, trabajo en equipo y con estos elementos facilitarles las herramientas necesarias para desarrollar una red de niñas y niños comunicadores.
7) ¿Dónde funciona la Red en la ciudad o en áreas rurales?
En el Área metropolitana de San Marcos y Santa Tecla.
