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I. INTRODUCTION
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The Nexus of Street Trading and Juvenile Delinquency: A Study of Chanchaga Lo...RSIS International
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YouthMetre is an exciting project that empowers young people to connect with policy makers in order to improve the youth policies in local authorities, regions and countries in Europe.
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Introduction
A mother sits with her son at a computer. Music fills the room as stylishly dressed kids dance on a computer screen. The scene is a house in the Western African country of Senegal where an encouraging mother is watching a music video with her son and offering her opinion of her son’s favorite new musical group, Rania. The group is from South Korea and is part of a music phenomenon called Korean Pop (or K-Pop) that fuses electronic, hip hop, rock and R&B musical forms. The young man made a video of his mother’s opinion of the group and put it on YouTube. A South Korean musical group, singing music online that emerged in black American culture, is being shared by an African boy on a global commercial video sharing network. How did we get to this point and what are the implications of this interconnected and overlapping world for this young man’s future and the future of young people in the United States?
A certain vision of the future is already here, although unevenly represented around the world. This future is cross-cultural and supported by a global economic system of multinational interests delivered through a decentralized communications network. Young people today are growing up in an interconnected world with access to information through a wide variety of mediums and devices that support the exchange of ideas and opinions. Given that these systems for communication are in constant flux and are being rapidly developed, children must prepare for a future that will look different than the world of their parents.
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Trend #1 – The Emergence of an Online Global Identity
Online social networks connect people and create avenues for extending our identity. Identity is connected to our physical being, but increasingly young people are crafting online identities using social networks. Manuel Castells describes this phenomenon in his recent trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Castells argues that the organization of global economics, political and social institutions prompts individuals to create meaning in their lives through collective action. This explains why networks such as Facebook have become so popular (500 million active users), so fast (Facebook went online in 2004). The attraction of Facebook is the human interaction and collective action that it facilitates. The technology is much less important than the human activities that the technologies enable. In fact, actual interfaces such as Facebook come and go rather quickly (e.g. AOL and MySpace, both with explosive growth and quick declines). These global networks allow people to be free of their “other” identities - ...
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These developments influence media projections and representations of various issues – gender representation is a major concern - what media portrays gets assimilated into the minds of the audience and influences them in various ways.
Media has the potential to play an active part in shaping and framing our perception of the world, and indeed in affecting the nature of that world.
it is the media which shapes our lives and perspectives. Society is influenced by media in so many ways.
It is the media for the masses that helps them to get information about a lot of things and also to form opinions and make judgments regarding various issues.
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How to empower youth to become engaged & make an impact on policy?Karl Donert
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YouthMetre is an exciting project that empowers young people to connect with policy makers in order to improve the youth policies in local authorities, regions and countries in Europe.
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A certain vision of the future is already here, although unevenly represented around the world. This future is cross-cultural and supported by a global economic system of multinational interests delivered through a decentralized communications network. Young people today are growing up in an interconnected world with access to information through a wide variety of mediums and devices that support the exchange of ideas and opinions. Given that these systems for communication are in constant flux and are being rapidly developed, children must prepare for a future that will look different than the world of their parents.
Trends in Youth Global Engagement
There are six trends that will shape the global engagement of Generation Z over the next decade. Each of them is outlined below.
Trend #1 – The Emergence of an Online Global Identity
Online social networks connect people and create avenues for extending our identity. Identity is connected to our physical being, but increasingly young people are crafting online identities using social networks. Manuel Castells describes this phenomenon in his recent trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Castells argues that the organization of global economics, political and social institutions prompts individuals to create meaning in their lives through collective action. This explains why networks such as Facebook have become so popular (500 million active users), so fast (Facebook went online in 2004). The attraction of Facebook is the human interaction and collective action that it facilitates. The technology is much less important than the human activities that the technologies enable. In fact, actual interfaces such as Facebook come and go rather quickly (e.g. AOL and MySpace, both with explosive growth and quick declines). These global networks allow people to be free of their “other” identities - ...
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2. In 2015 the Oxford Brookes University
Human Rights Festival will be celebrating
its 13th year. Founded in 2003, the festival
is an initiative of post graduate students
on the MArchD course in Applied Design
in Architecture and MA in Development
and Emergency Practice at Oxford Brookes
University.
In attracting diverse audiences to each
of our events, the festival hopes to raise
awareness about a range of human rights
concerns among students and the wider
Oxford community. The festival is free and
open to all.
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane, Headington
Oxford
OX3 0BP
Twitter: @OxHRF
Facebook: www.facebook.com/oxfordhumanrightsfestival
Website: www.oxfordhumanrightsfestival.org
George McBean is an animator and illustrator,
born in Scotland in 1948. He retired as Head of
UNICEF’s Graphics section dealing with Animation
for Children’s Rights and continued working on
occasional assignments in East Africa. His research
into Visual Literacy among rural populations in Nepal
has been highlighted in the New Internationalist
and was described in the book People Pictures and
Power, Bob Linney 1991, Macmillan-Talc, as “the
most important visual literacy study ever done”. He
was key to forming one of UNICEF’s most successful
partnerships with more than 100 animation studios
worldwide, including Disney, Pixar, Warner Bros,
Dreamworks, Hanna Barbera and Cartoon Network.
His designs and animated film productions have
been distributed world-wide by the United Nations.
He has given talks on his work at Stanford University,
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, the London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and at the
Animation Workshop in Viborg Denmark.
After a 36 year association with the organisation he
returned to Edinburgh in 2012 and most recently
he has continued to talk and to develop ideas
on the theme of illustration and animation for
development.
George McBean
The Insurgent Artist
3. The work of the United Nations Humanitarian organisations has changed dramatically
over the past 40 years. Where once the flags and logos of agencies such as UNICEF
ensured safe passage into conflict areas, these same symbols are now viewed as targets
in some parts of the world. The communication environment has also completely
changed through developments in information technology. In the 1970s face-to-face
communication with recipient villagers was essential to success, along with queues
and long corridor walks to meet with government officials. Anyone working for the UN
over for the past 40 years will have their own unique inside view of the modernisation
that’s taken place. The unusual nature of my work as a visual artist working for UNICEF,
I would like to suggest, was that of an insurgent in a world where words are king.
In the 1970s animated cartoons and illustrative comics were seen as radical forms of
communication by many government authorities and dismissed as not serious enough
by conservative thinkers in the UN. Yet innovative research showed that visual images
were an essential tool to communicate with pre-literate communities. Visual literacy
skills were the precurser to literacy and in many cases an audience’s first introduction
to new information and knowledge.
The sub-title Fulfilling human rights by challenging established practice is intentionally
UN-speak, but it sums up the theme of the exhibit. We are focusing here on the
prevention of human rights abuses as an important supplement to enforcing them.
In much the same way as we promote preventive health measures alongside any
curative medicine – the promotion of human rights requires education that is culturally
specific. Some 25 years after the signing of the Convention of the Rights of the Child
its value and principles are still being challenged in some communities, because the
very concept of human rights for children seems to dismiss existing beliefs and cultural
practices. Universal understanding has not followed universal acceptance of the CRC.
Indeed this process is made more difficult in many communities where there is no
actual word for ‘rights’ in their language.
There is no such thing as a UNICEF Project. Each and every effort to help children has to
have local participation and ownership from governments, NGOs or local communities.
This approach is unchanged since the days I joined UNICEF. It is necessary to help a
country’s infrastructure develop beyond UNICEF’s initial input and for any aid effort to
become sustainable. This point of contact, where donor funds are finally translated
into actions for the recipient, is the most important part of any humanitarian agency’s
work. It is what I would call the front line. Any judgment on performance or value for
money should be made here. This point is also where the most important exchanges
of information take place.
Efforts to communicate with non-literate mothers in a rural village or urban mothers
in a capital city, for example, to help them understand risks in pregnancy and better
child care practices, must take the mother’s cultural and educational background into
account. Success in communicating important health information depends on our
ability not to see mothers and caregivers as a universal homogenous group. All come
from specific cultural backgrounds that influence the ways new ideas are perceived,
accepted and adopted. The health science of child care is universal. The treatment
of diarrhoea in one country is the same as in another. It is only the way of explaining
The Insurgent Artist
FULFILLING HUMAN RIGHTS BY CHALLENGING
ESTABLISHED PRACTICE
Introduction
Taken from ‘Illustrations for Development’ 1980
4. it and making it relevant to different cultures that needs to be carefully modified. The
India Mark 3 water pump works the same way in every country in Asia and Africa
where it has been installed, yet the way it operates and is maintained, by men or
women, needs to be explained in the thousands of different languages and cultures it
is used in. The scientific evidence is clear that giving birth in early adolescence is bad
for both the adolescent mother and her child. It is nevertheless essential to adapt the
communication of this information to make it relevant to those communities where
child marriage is the norm. It is on this front line that we encounter the greatest
challenges in communicating rights. On one hand there is respect for the established
beliefs and traditional practices of a community and on the other the individual’s right
to survival, education, protection and dignity. Communities ignore many human rights
because they are not recognised or consistent with accepted cultural practice. Gender-
based violence, even when officially against the law, may be widely tolerated because
it is viewed as accepted practice. A host of culturally based fears may cause parents to
resist vaccinations of their children while some beliefs surrounding hygiene behaviours
may actually endanger lives. Most recently we have seen traditional rituals surrounding
burials at the centre of the spread of Ebola in a few West African countries. In summary
most of the flagrant abuses of child rights such as child labour or FGM have been
difficult to tackle because certain community leaders accept them, on the grounds
that it is part of their cultures.
In every community you will find examples of best practice. There are those who are
doing things properly with regards to child care, parenting, farming etc and those
who struggle. Understanding the circumstances as to why these behaviours are so
different and best practice not widespread is crucial in any communication effort to
spread awareness and helpful information. Support for human rights requires not
only cultural sensitivity it requires the use of appropriate communication tools. The
use of visual literacy research and visual communication techniques has proven to
be one of the most successful ways of introducing new ideas not only to pre-literate
populations but also with large proportions of adults who have only basic literacy skills.
Visual materials such as illustration, comics and animation are reaching this audience
with information. The preferred long-term solution of course is to provide access to
universal education but while that effort is ongoing it is beneficial to reach the poorest
through these innovative visual communication approaches. Looking back over 36
years and taking into account of the dramatic technological advances that are now
penetrating even the most remote communities, what was innovative at the time can
seem commonplace by today’s standard. Yet there was a time when printing a health
message on material and draping an illustration over an elephant’s back proved an
effective way of publicising health information in Nepal.
What you will see in this exhibition are examples of what many would call the softer
side of the delivery of human rights – visual explanations of health information to
people in remote communities to help them better understand how to protect their
children. This provision to pre-literate parents is one that can greatly increase a child’s
chance of survival. The exhibition reflects the use of a variety of visual communication
techniques used to impart information.
I’m very honoured and grateful to Angela Hatherell and her team of students at Oxford
Brookes to have invited me to participate in this year’s OHRF and for them to have
selectedthe45examplesofworkshown.Thesesampleswerechosenfromashort-listof
some 500 images I sent, which in turn came from a collection of over 3,000 illustrations,
comic books and cartoons; 130 animated short films; 10 documentaries and 40,000
reference photographs I have helped produce over the years. The educational value
of these individual pieces is explained in captions. Their effectiveness has been judged
by audience research, by the people the artwork was designed for rather than by any
panel of judges. It is indeed a bonus to show these to a wider audience at the OHRF.
George McBean, 2015
www.georgemcbean.com
George and his wife Sara Cameron with two of their three children in Kenya 1982
5. Five Blocks of Time
EAST AFRICA (1976-1982)
1. George McBean with students
Before I joined UNICEF I had already
spent some three years working and
traveling in East Africa and India. Seen
here with art students on a field trip in
Uganda 1972.
3. Kenyan school children
(scouts and guides)
Children out of school show their
character at every opportunity.
• Tackle the high child mortality rate among pastoral people.
• Illustrate the danger and risk in the refugee camps in
Ogaden and Somalia.
• Research and produce health communication material
specifically for pre-literate parents.
• Improve training of local artists to illustrate public health
issues.
Issues
2. Toposa mother
This teenage Toposa mother has jewellery and
tribal scaring as identification marks. Including
these tribal identification marks in illustration
was essential to help mothers from semi-
nomadic groups to recognize themselves.
4. Somali refugee child
It is hard to describe the strength needed by
refugee (and internally displaced) children who
spend days walking in a harsh environment to
find a place of safety. For so many of them their
clothes are their home.
6. Five Blocks of Time
Nepal (1982-1989)
2. The effects of iodine deficiency
The most visible sign of iodine deficiency is the
large growth of a goitre on the neck. But there
are more subtle signs in the faces of someone
suffering from Cretinism. They range from
someone being slightly dulled in their intellect
to being severely mentally and physically
challenged with a particular gait to their walk.
3. Goitre and Cretinism
Nepal in the 1980s had such a
high incidence of Goitre and
Cretinism that UNICEF and the
World Health Organisation had
to redefine the range of mental
illness that was caused by Iodine
Deficiency.
• Target largest single killer of children - dehydration due to
diarrhoea (45,000 children dying each year).
• Enlist support for iodine deficiency disorders - cause for
most mental illness.
• Spread awareness of immunisation.
• Help develop local capacity for health education and services
to remote areas of the country.
1. Gurkha soldiers used to reach
faithhealers with ORS message
Retiring Gurkha soldiers volunteered
and UNICEF provided training in Oral
Rehydration Solution (ORS) during
their rehabilitation course after
military service.
4. The Nun Chini Pani card
One of the most successful visual aids that UNICEF
produced in Nepal was a small memory card for
faith healers that showed them how to mix Nun
Chini Pani (ORS). Around 700,000 of these cards
were produced and few if any were ever destroyed
because we printed an image of Durga the God of
the faith healer’s on the reverse.
Issues
7. Five Blocks of Time
The Caribbean (1989-1996)
1. Jamaica Lifeskills
Priorities for UNICEF in the
Caribbean were very different, with
little help needed for child survival
except in remote areas of mainland
Amazonia. Our communication
efforts were focused on child
abuse, adolescents and lifeskills.
2. Focus on animation for poorer
communities
Many new initiatives in animation were
agreed and supported after the Orlando
summit. The main focus for animators’
attention concerned the rights of
adolescent girls to education and access
to health knowledge, laying a foundation
for assuring greater equality.
3. “Sam and the sex patch” for AIDS awareness
In the early 1990s the AIDS pandemic sent waves of
concern through the Caribbean because of the high
incidence of teen pregnancy and the small island
populations. Under an assumed name I produced a
more radical comic strip, Sam And The Sex Patch, after
discussions with teenagers on AIDS awareness. (The
use of patches to help stop smoking had just been
introduced to the world.) The Sex Patch was published
weekly in the youth supplement of a Barbados
newspaper.
• Tackle child abuse issue.
• Illustrate the danger and risk of HIV/AIDS.
• Produce health communication materials specifically for
team building with NGO partners, the public and young
parents.
• Improve training of local artists to illustrate public health
issues.
Issues
8. Five Blocks of Time
New York HQ (1996-2003)
1. PeterUstinovretiresasUNICEF
Goodwill Ambassador
Peter Ustinov was a most
supportive UNICEF Ambassador
for animation, providing the
narration for some films and
distributing the Animation for
Development awards each year
at the Annecy Animation Festival.
• Children’s Rights.
• Lack of funds in field offices for innovative visual
communication.
• Combine UNICEF’s HQ design unit for production of print
and broadcast material.
• Liaise with animation studio: Festivals and competitions for
UNICEF.
• Secure better training of artists from poorer countries in
animation.
Issues
2. Superman in Albania supporting land mine awareness
Superman and Wonder Women comics had been used to spread
Landmine awareness in Latin America, Southern Africa and the
Balkans but they had come under heavy criticism for their lack
of sensitivity to local culture and customs. (For example, Wonder
Woman’s skirt had to be lengthened in Latin America.) UNICEF
became involved in testing and developing a new attempt at a comic
book for Albania. Despite the improved quality, unfortunately past
stigma prevented the full use of this comic also.
3. cartoons for children’s rights
Cartoons for Children’s Right was an initiative that
came from the 1994 Animation for Development
Summit held in Orlando Florida. Nearly 70 studios
from 32 countries signed up to animate Articles
from the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the
Child.
9. Five Blocks of Time
Retirement (2004-2012)
1. The Adoration of Acceptance
Painting completed for the East African Art
Biennale 2011 depicting a couple of albino
children inserted into a cartoon by Michelangelo’s
Manchester Madonna - with changed ethnicity to
an African family.
2. Thealbinomanwithhishand
amputated
This is an oil painting completed
recently in Edinburgh to
publicise a novel I wrote in
2011. The novel on the subject
of people with albinism is
called Children of the Moon,
the proceeds of which are
being sent to the NGO ‘Under
the Same Sun’ in Tanzania.
3. Image of Sara and I on our
retirement in Tanzania
At our UNICEF staff farewell
party in Tanzania, after 36 years
combined service.
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Infiltrators
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The Fifth Estate
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Jane Grigson: Good Things 9 March – 2 April 2015
An exploration of the life, work and influence of Jane Grigson, one of the UK’s most
highly regarded food writers, told through extracts from her research notes, articles
and books, and through a series of recorded interviews with those to whom she was
close. This exhibition is created in partnership with the BBC Radio 4 food programme
on the occasion of the Oxford Literary Festival and presents material from the Jane
Grigson Collection contained in the special collections library at Oxford Brookes.
Fine Art (BA Hons) Degree Show School of Arts | 16 May – 22 May 2015
A selection of work from this year’s final degree show by Oxford Brookes University’s
Fine Art (BA HONS) degree students.
School of Architecture End of Year Show School of Architecture | 30 May – 10 June 2015
An exhibition of undergraduate and postgraduate architecture students showcasing
their work from the year.
A Modern Magna Carta A local schools participation project | 22 June – 24 July 2015
What rights matter to young people and how best could they be communicated? What
would a Magna Carta designed by a school pupil in 2015 look like? Come and find out
in this exhibition where pupils from across the city present re-imagined Magna Cartas
for the 21st Century, designed and created by them following a year-long engagement
project run by Oxford Brookes University.
Antarctica: Fragile Wilderness* 3 August – 4 September 2015 *Curator’s choice
The Antarctic is the Planet’s last wilderness, parts of which are melting at an alarming
rate. This exhibition employs moving and static images, sound and text to present a
multi-layered reflection of the artists’ journey to Antarctica, informed by subjective,
scientific and historic observations.
The Glass Tank is a multi-disciplinary exhibition space located on
the ground floor of the Abercrombie extension on the Headington
Campus. It showcases the research activity and creative work of
our students and staff, and selected exhibitions that are relevant to
the community at Oxford Brookes.
Opening times: Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm
Admission: Free and open to all
www.brookes.ac.uk/glass-tank
Glass Tank Oxford Human Rights Festival