Argonautica Polaris

Children's rights in the media and children's right to influence the agenda

I have got the opportunity to work with a webzine, a magazine on the internet that will concern children and free expression. We will focus on expressions through lyrics and melodies. In order to gather ideas for that project I searched the web for useful links. Here are some that are on to the same subject.

The idea is to give the children themselves the tools to produce reports about their daily live, thus making a worldwide audience of adults better understand the the difficulties children have to cope with. The hope is that adults who come in contact with the reports then will be able to make decisions that can better provide the proper aid.

Since I have worked earlier with a childrens magazine and also for a period studied art; - film and photo, I find this project very interesting. I see it a way of bringing artstudies from a selv-centered exhibitionist view of matters towards a more sociable interactive approach. I hope more people will join in. Here is a report from one artist working in Uganda, who decided to go out of her own gallery and instead help others get their views through...

posted by "Amira" @ 12:48 AM