Media, Rules, Case and Children’s Rights Paola Riva Gapany Brnò, March 2011 copyright : prg 1 logoIDE_light Warsaw Ghetto 1941 copyright : prg 2 http://titi.nanou.pagesperso-orange.fr/images/ghetto.jpg copyright : prg 3 vietnam-_war.jpg Soweto 1976 Hector Peterson, 13, dying in his fathers’arms. copyright : prg 4 revolte_soweto.jpg Omayra Sánchez was one of the 25,000 victims of the Nevado del Ruiz (Colombia) volcano which erupted on November 14, 1985. copyright : prg 5 [Omayra_Sanchez.jpg] copyright : prg 6 photograph showing a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture won Kevin Carter the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. famine_soudan.jpg General Regulations and Ethics •Media professional associations, national federations •the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) •UNICEF (Ethical guidelines, Principles for ethical reporting on children ) • NGOs (MediaWise) •Organisations ( Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe). copyright : jz 7 Media ethics and children’s rights •Exploitation : 1996 Wold Congress against sexual exploitation in Stockholm : • •Awareness-Raising versus Sensationalising, •Neutrality versus Cooperation with the Authorities, •Secondary Victimisation copyright : jz 8 Media, CRC and the CRC Committee •Day of General Discussion: CRC/C/50, 13th Session, 7.10 1996: « The Child and the Media » •The media have essential functions in promoting and protecting the fundamental rights of the child •The media could also play a pivotal role in monitoring the actual implementation of the rights of the child •The integrity of the child should be protected in reporting about involvement in criminal activities, sexual abuse, family problems… •the influence on children of negative aspects of the media, primarily programmes containing brutal violence and pornography… • copyright : prg 9 Media and Child participation •One of the principles of the Convention is that the views of children be heard and given due respect (art. 12). •The media is important for offering children the possibility of expressing themselves. •This is also reflected in articles about freedom of expression, thought, conscience and religion (arts. 13-14). •It is in the spirit of these provisions that children should not only be able to consume information material but also to participate themselves in the media. •This requires that there exist media which communicate with children. • • copyright : prg 10 Media and respect of children •media professionals, including media editors and owners, should be particularly vigilant in trying to safeguard the integrity of the child •need to use special techniques taking into account the best interests of the child in interviews or simulations involving child victims of violence and abuse •child's access to the media: number of positive experiences, news agencies where child reporters provided information aimed at children. •misrepresentation of children from specific groups ! copyright : prg 11 Media ethics and children’s rights •Exploitation at work : 1997 Wold Congress against labour exploitation in Oslo : • • •Journalists’ duty to “replace myths with empowerment” copyright : prg 12 The Recife Declaration •the journalistic language way of communication to the public • •respect of child’s personality • •respect of freedom of information • copyright : prg 13 Switzerland: a child having a child •how is it medically possible for a 10 years child to have a baby? • •why no one in school noticed that she was pregnant? • •social exclusion • • copyright : prg 14 copyright : prg 15 copyright prg 16 copyright : prh 17 copyright : prg 18 copyright : prg 19 copyright : prg 20 copyright :prg 21 copyright : peg 22 copyright : prg 23 copyright :prg 24 Image1.png copyright : prg 25 BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD •Conclusion… copyright : PRG 26 logoIDE_light copyright : prg 27 logoIDE_light THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION !!! http:www.childsrights.org !