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Here are a set of ready to download films about a variety of child rights issues around the world. You can access them by clicking https://www.unicef.ca/en/teachers/article/global-classroom-videos
Global Classroom – Videos
Use these videos to bring the world into your classroom.
For Every Child – Long Version
This 6 minute video provides an overview for Grade 5 – Grade 12 students of UNICEF’s work to protect children’s rights around the world.
Children: The Missing Face of AIDS – 13 minutes.
This video profiles a day in the life of Nyirsabimana, a young Rwandan girl who has been orphaned by AIDS and left to care for her young siblings alone.
Hope in the time of AIDS
“Hope In The Time of AIDS” travels across five African countries to show the remarkable strength and determination of people fighting not only a disease, poverty and a lack of education, but also the media stereotypes of Africa as a hopeless case. You will hear from activists such as Stephen Lewis, UNICEF Canada’s Nigel Fisher and humanitarian (retired general) Roméo Dallaire.
Love (and Babies) in the Time of AIDS: A Journey to India
This documentary follows HIV/AIDS activist Thembi Ngubane, 23, as she travels from her home in Khayelitsha, South Africa to the bustling centre of Bollywood in Mumbai, India. For more information on the film, click here.
Videos For Youth
Freedom from Discrimination (Article 20)
Philippines (Imagine Asia). Directed by John Rocco.
Protection from Neglect (Article 19)
Czech Republic (Kratky Film). Animated by Zdenka Deitchova.
Freedom from Discrimination (Article 2)
Barbados (Independent). Animated by Guy O’Neal.
A Protective Environment (Articles 3, 9))
Scotland (Red Kite Productions Ltd). Animated by Anwyn Beier.Music by Rowland Lee.
Self Expression (Article 13)
Chile (CINEANIMADORES). Animated by Alejandro Rojas Tellez. Sound and Music by Alejandro Lyon.