Documents submitted for the Day of General Discussion (7 October 1996) on "Child and the Media"

At its 13th session (Geneva, 23 September - 11 October 1996), the Committee on the Rights of the Child devoted a day of general discussion (7 October 1996) to the theme "the Child and the Media ". As for previous thematic discussions, the Committee invited representatives of United Nations organs, bodies and specialized agencies, as well as other competent bodies, including non-governmental organizations, research and academic organizations and individual experts, to contribute to the discussion. Several organizations and individual experts submitted contributions and other relevant documents on this theme. Here you will find a list of these contributions by "other competent bodies" in PDF format.

For further information or other enquiries please contact the Committee on the Rights of the Child - Secretariat, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Palais des Nations - CH-1211 Genève 10 - Switzerland, Phone +41 22 917 9235 or 917 9000, Fax +41 22 917 9022, or email mbustelo.hchr@unog.ch. This report is adapted from Annex VI, List of submitted documents for the Day of General Discussion (7 October 1996) on "The Child and the Media", in "Report of the thirteenth session," CRC/C/73. The report and general recommendations, as well as introduction, agenda, suggested guide, can be read in full on the website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

1. By the Committee on the Rights of the Child

Mr. Thomas Hammarberg “Children, the United Nations Convention and the media”, Background paper for the discussion day.

2. By United Nations organs

Department of Public Information “Children's Rights”, United Nations Backgrounder, January 1996 (English/French)

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) “Prime time for children: Media, ethics and reporting of commercial sexual exploitation”, paper submitted by the International Federation of Journalists, for UNICEF, to the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Stockholm, August 1996

“Interviewing children”, a training pack for journalists, written and produced by Sarah McCrum and Paul Bernal, 1994; book and tape

International Children's Day of Broadcasting, “Tune to Kids”, 15 December 1996

3. By specialized agencies

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

“Children, the media and the rights of the child”, by Carlos A. Arnaldo and John Bennett

“Children and violence”, summary of the report of the Commission on Children and Violence convened by the Gulbenkian Foundation

“How do you curb violence in the media?”, paper by Andréa Martinez, submitted to the International Symposium on Women and the Media. Access to Expression and Decision-Making, Toronto, 28 February-3 March 1996

“Violence et télévision”, par Hervé Bourges, Président du Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (France), Programme international pour le développement de la communication - Paris, 22-26 janvier 1996

“Jeunes et média de demain, quelles problématiques? quelles perspectives?”,Groupe de recherche sur les relations enfants/média, Forum international de chercheurs, UNESCO, Paris, 21-25 avril 1997

“Non-violence, tolerance and television”; an international round table organized by UNESCO, the International Programme for the Development of Communication, and the Indian Government, New Delhi, 1 April 1994; report of the Chairman to the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication

“Violence in Broadcasting Worldwide”, International Survey of Regulations in Broadcasting with Specific Regard to Violence, prepared for UNESCO by Broadcasting Standards Council, paper by Colin Shaw, Director, BSC

“Television Violence versus Viewer Power: the Power to Zap Away”, a synthesis of UNESCO IPDC Actions 1994-1996, by Carlos A. Arnaldo, Chief, Free Flow of Information and Communication Research, International Programme for the Development of Communication, UNESCO, Paris, 23 January 1996

Chroniques du Forum, No. 1, “Les jeunes et les médias demain”, juin 1996(English/français)

United Nations Development Programme/UNESCO/UNICEF/World Bank

“Education for all, achieving the goal”, final report mid-decade of the International Consultative Forum on Education for All, 16-19 June 1996, Amman, Jordan

4. By regional intergovernmental organizations

“Télévision et enfants”, par Bernard Blin, Conseil de l'Europe, Comité directeur sur la politique sociale, projet politique de l'enfance, Strasbourg, 11 avril 1995

5. By intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and individual experts

Childnet International “Promoting the interests of children in international communications”, Nigel Williams

GRAPES Children's Environments Research Group, City University of New York: “The Whole Story by Kids for Kids”

International Committee of the Red Cross/Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)/UNICEF/International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Joint statement on the evacuation of unaccompanied children from Rwanda

International Federation of Journalists “The Child and the Media”, Bettina Peeters, Brussels, October 1996

International Save the Children Alliance “Children, Ethics and the Media”

M. Koren “Tell me the right of the child to information”, NBLC, The Hague,November 1996

NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child Sub-Group on Education, Literacy and Mass Media, “Media and children's rights”

Unlimited Productions “What can be done to develop the possibilities for children to participate actively in the media?”, by Sara MacNeill

Watch, the World Alliance of Television for Children

Prix Jeunesse and Watch at the UNICEF Workshop, “The Child and the Media”,7 October 1996. The Foundation's objective is to contribute to an improvement of worldwide television output for the young, to promote communication between nations and to increase programme exchange on an international level

Asian Declaration on the Child and the Media, Asian Summit on Rights of the Child and the Media, Manila - 2-5 July 1996

“Youth and media”, bibliography compiled by David B. Shedden, Poynter Institute for Media Studies

“Panel 3b: The role of the media”, Rapporteur's summary, World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Stockholm, August 1996

“Networking for children's rights in the media”, by Connie Tadros, in Media Development, 1994

“Lolita lives: child imagery in the media”, by Jane Lizop, Media Adviser to the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, in CROSSLINES Global Report, August 1996

“Prime Time for Children”, including “Recommendations for Further Action”, in CROSSLINES Global Report, August 1996

“Sex, computers and video tapes” by Eve Porter, in CROSSLINES Global Report, September 1996, vol. 4, No. 24

* Not submitted in electronic format.

Previous CRC - Basic Reference Document items

• 01/09/1996: General guidelines for periodic reports
• 01/09/1996: Orientaciones generales para los informes periódicos
• 01/09/1996: Directives générales pour les rapports périodiques
• 01/09/1996: Directives générales pour les rapports périodiques
• 26/08/1996: General Assembly 51 session - Report of the study on “The impact on Children of Armed Conflicts” by the Secretary-general (A/51/306)

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