Children, Arts and Culture

	NGO : Breakthrough Breakthrough is an innovative, international human rights organization using the power of popular culture, media, leadership development and community education to transform public attitudes and advance equality, justice, and dignity.... read more Posted on 11-24-2009

	Malaver-Villate: A Film by Christina Lappas and Monika Shankar This film was made by Christina Lappas and Monika Shankar during the 2009 International Field Program for a project that explored urban housing issues in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It examines... read more Posted on 11-23-2009

	Perspectives from Liberia: A Film by Stephanie Clough These pictures and video were taken between June and September 2008 by Stephanie Clough, who travelled to Liberia as part of an internship for the International Rescue Committee as part... read more Posted on 11-23-2009

	Exploring Risky Youth Experiences: Popular Theatre as a Participatory, Performative Research Method This paper discusses a Popular Theatre project with a group of high school drama students in a rural Alberta community in Canada. As a research method, Popular Theatre draws on... read more Posted on 11-23-2009

	Teaching Children's Rights Through Art The Children’s Rights Centre at Cape Breton University, with funding granted by Heritage Canada, has developed a curriculum entitled Teaching Children’s Rights Through Art. The curriculum was developed with the... read more Posted on 11-23-2009

	The ILO's SCREAM The causes of child labour are varied and complex. The International Labour Organization (ILO) tackles the issue by using a multifaceted approach, from promoting ratification and effective implementation of ILO... read more Posted on 11-23-2009

	UNICEF: Voices of Youth Voices of Youth UNICEF's Voices of Youth provided young people around the globe with an opportunity to explore, discuss and take action on complex human rights and development issues since 1995.... read more Posted on 11-22-2009

	Porto BR: A Percussion Group that Changes Lives In the summer of 2007, Laura Thies went to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as part of a course on Human Rights and Media. During her 4 weeks there, she met... read more Posted on 11-10-2009

	Children, Youth and the Environment: The Everyday Environments of Children’s Poverty The Children, Youth and the Environment journal, Vol. 19, No.2 (2009) published by the University of Colorado, Boulder is now available online. This special issue contains results form the 2008... read more Posted on 10-03-2009

	2009 IFP Project in Rio: Curta Favela Tavares Bastos As part of the Rio de Janeiro IFP 2009, four students from the New Shool’s Graduate Program in International Affairs - Christine Newkirk, Dulce Mateo, Nina Raja and Frédéric Choinière... read more Posted on 10-03-2009

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Art and Culture
Children’s creativity and imagination produce a critical point of view that is frequently ignored and under developed. Children and young people participate in many art and culture initiatives that allow them to understand and enjoy the difficult world in which...