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Video contest on child rights
UNICEF celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and invites videos that promote and protect children’s interests. Deadline for submitting entries is August 1, 2009.
It’s the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In 1989, world leaders decided that children needed a special convention just for them because people under 18 years old often are neglected in the human rights debate.
As a result, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was developed. It spells out the basic human rights that children everywhere have: the right to survival; to develop to the fullest; to protection from harmful influences, abuse and exploitation; and to participate fully in family, cultural and social life.
Commemorating the occasion UNICEF invites videos that highlight child rights.
Video showing what child rights mean to you, whether it be in the world at large, your country or your community. How children’s rights are not being fulfilled. Or maybe where children are getting the rights they deserve.
Criteria:
- Video content must be related to children’s rights, either by illustrating one of the rights or referencing children’s rights as a whole
- Videos must capture the mission of Voices of Youth - to promote and protect every child’s right to know more, say more and do more about the world they live in
- We welcome videos in all languages
- All videos must be 1 minute in length
- Participants must be below 25 years of age
- Submissions can be either by an individual or a group
- Each individual or group is limited to one submission
- All videos should be free of copyright materials
Deadline:
Entries should be submitted by August 1, 2009
How to Submit:
- Each video should be uploaded to one of the following video sharing sites: YouTube, Blip.tv, Dailymotion, Veoh
- Once you upload your video to one of the above sites, you must send an email to unicef.crc.videocontest@gmail.com with basic information
- Short listed entries will be notified by 10 September 2009
- Short listed entries will be asked to submit master copies of broadcast quality via surface/air mail on a DVcam tape
- If you don’t have access to one of these sites, you can mail it as an .mov file on a CD/DVD via regular mail to:
International Children’s Day of Broadcasting
UNICEF
Room 933
3 UN Plaza
New York, NY 10017
USA
Source: UNICEF
