LACVOX presents the last Media Advisory of the year in response to the launching of the “On the surface and deep down, School Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean” (Violencia escolar en América Latina y el Caribe, superficie y fondo) publication by Plan International and UNICEF.
LACVOX Media Advisory
November 2th, 2011
What? - LACVOX presents the last Media Advisory of the year in response to the launching of the “On the surface and deep down, School Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean” (Violencia escolar en América Latina y el Caribe, superficie y fondo) publication by Plan International and UNICEF. This media advisory will look at numerous issues related to Violence in Schools: Inside the classroom, outside on the school grounds, violence between classmates, including internet.
The Regional adolescent Communicators network, LACVOX, invites all children and adolescents´ friends of this virtual community to participate and share their experiences of violence in school. All children and adolescents have the right to be protected from any situation of violence and express their views on issues that affect them.
When? – Starting on Wednesday, November 2 until Friday November 25, 2011.
Who? – Children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean friends of LACVOX.
Why? – Schools should be a safe place for children; they spend a lot of time, learning and sharing with teachers and peers in an environment that should enable them to exercise their rights. However, in this region there are still cases where the rights of children and adolescents are violated, by education authorities, parents and peers. In most cases, they are forced to leave school instead of being able to study and develop within the school community which is their right.
The opinion of participants will help generate debates and reinforce results of the publication about School violence. So, we invite you to share your experiences about situations concerning this topic in the form of articles, photographs or videos. Through LACVOX we will make sure this information reaches UNICEF and Plan International. Your comments will also be shared by Somos Region from Plan International http://eses.facebook.com/somosvoces, by the LACVOX social networks http://www.lacvox.net/, and by VOY from UNICEF global http://lajuventudopina.org/, among others. We want to hear about the challenges and proposed solutions and hope that all experiences help raise awareness to achieve concrete answers.
Contributions expected from LACVOX friends:
1. Stories about this issue with recommendations on how to improve the things that you think are not right, and so on.
2. Interviews with people within your community that could help improve the situation of children and adolescents (the school principal, mayor, minister of youth, etc.)
3. Interviews with adolescents to obtain their opinion on situations in their schools and how they think change should be shaped.
4. Interviews with adolescents who are or went through a challenging situation. In this case the identity of the interviewers must be respected according to UNICEF’s ethics manual http://www.lacvox.net/?p=5879
-Photographs, filmed and written reports, with and without pictures will be accepted. LACVOX will publish the all.
-Delivery date, November 30, 2011.
To send your materials and to receive more information, please contact:
Ana María Ortiz,
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Lynne Gonzalez,
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www.unicef.org/lac
www.lacvox.net
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