Asia Pacific Child Rights Award - Closes June 15th

Asia Pacific Child Rights Award - Closes June 15th

Get your entries into the 11th Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award. The ABU, CASBAA and UNICEF are inviting broadcasters and producers in the region to submit entries for the Award.

Programmes both for children and about children are eligible and can cover any children’s rights issue. Entries can include documentaries that detail the plight of children, dramas that help break down stereotypes and discrimination, or animation that teaches and entertains.

Entries must have been broadcast between June 2010 and May 2011 and must be received by 15 June 2011. The Award will be presented during the CASBAA Convention in Hong Kong in early November. The winner will be flown there for the ceremony.

Past winners include:
• 2010: Let Them Touch the Sky, by the Smile Foundation
• 2009: All I Need, by MTV EXIT
• 2008: I-Witness: Child Beasts of Burden, by Philippine’s GMA Network Inc.
• 2007: Children Left Behind, by Hong Kong’s Jade TVB
• 2006: Conquering the Darkness – The Fight Against Memories of Abuse, by Japan’s Kansai Telecasting Corporation
• 2005: Juvenile Injustice, by Philippine’s ABS-CBN Channel 2
• 2004: Hong Kong Connection: Children In Need, by Radio Television Hong Kong
• 2003: Angels in Prison, by Philippines’ GMA-7 Channel
• 2002: Child Soldiers, by Radio Television Hong Kong
• 2001: Children Will Grow, by Japan’s Mainichi Institute

For more information visit http://www.unicef.org/eapro/media_15422.html

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