UNICEF CALLS FOR SYNERGY BETWEEN THE MEDIA AND CHILDREN.
Nigeria on Sunday joined the rest of the world to celebrate this year’s International Children’s Day of Broadcasting. In Nigeria, as in other countries, most stations gave control of their operations to children, who took part in newscasts, productions and presentations.
Articles of 12 and 14 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child say that children have the right to form their own views and to express their views freely through the media on matters affecting them. This is what the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting tries to realize.
The theme for this year is All Rights, All Children, highlighting the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child that all children irrespective of their status and situation should enjoy all the rights as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Child Rights Act 2003.
The UNICEF Country Representative, Dr. Suomi Sakai, promised “to continue working with the Nigerian broadcast media to ensure that we all hear children’s views of their lives and issues affecting them."
UNICEF has collaborated with the broadcast media in Nigeria to commemorate the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting since 1992.
International Children’s Day of Broadcasting productions are submitted for the International Emmy Awards in New York in November of the same year. UNICEF encourages contestants to send in their best productions for the awards. UNICEF will collate all Nigerian entries for onward delivery to the awards committee.
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