"A great deal has now been written about the patterns of media exploitation as they contribute to a vortex of destruction. Less has been elaborated about the efforts of international governmental organisations ("IGOs") and non-governmental organisations ("NGOs") to intervene so as to maintain a more
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stable and peaceful world order either in anticipation of conflict, during the conflict or in the ordeal following the conflict. This paper focuses, as a background for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") Geneva Conference, in May 2000, on post-conflict patterns that emerge, primarily drawing from four case studies—Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Cambodia." (Introduction)
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"This survey is one of a series prepared for the UNESCO Education for All (EFA) Assessment, under the auspices of the UNESCO Division of Basic Education and the United Kingdom Department of Intern
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ational Development for the International Consultative Forum on Education for All. The EFA objectives are concerned with broad policy goals and targets in the provision of school books and other learning materials, including distribution mechanisms. While this survey also covers the situation in South and Central Asia, the Pacific Islands, the Anglophone Caribbean, and some parts of Central and Eastern Europe, special attention is paid to Africa, “where the book shortage has attracted more external support and generated more documentation over the past decade than any other region.” Part of the synthesis is based on a range of classroom studies commissioned by the UNESCO/ Danida Basic Learning Materials Initiative (119), covering Egypt, Guinea, India, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Samoa, Senegal, and Tanzania. The survey first examines the basic issues and constraints relating to textbook availability and provision, and the role of funding agencies and donors. Thereafter it looks at global trends – in terms of decentralization, liberalization, funding, quality and use, etc. – followed by a survey of regional developments in the areas covered." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 231)
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"The 2000 Yearbook treats two themes, both of which relate to newer features of the media landscape: violence in video and computer games, and pornography on television and on Internet. Some articles in the Yearbook also discuss findings on audience perceptions of violence and sex in the media. The
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choice of these themes has to do with the marked increase in the availability of such content to children and youth via new media technologies. The Yearbook comes with two bibliographies: Research on Pornography and Sex in the Media and Research on Video and Computer Games." (Publisher description)
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"This work is not just another monograph on copyright and neighbouring rights. It represents a fundamental contribution to study of this discipline made, in response to UNESCO’s request, by the eminent specialist on the subject, Professor Delia Lipszyc [...] UNESCO’s programme for the promotion
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of teaching of copyright and neighbouring rights has sought to devise appropriate draft syllabuses, while encouraging the establishment of professorships for the study of this discipline in universities. In collaboration with eminent experts in each region, the proposed syllabuses have already been brought into line with the legal contexts of Latin America, French-speaking Africa, the Arab States, the Asian and Pacific region, English-speaking Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The updated version of this work, the Spanish original of which was published in 1993, is an additional contribution to this endeavour. It responds to the deeply felt concern of universities to see the teaching programmes adopted by them supported by a work which covers the subject in its every aspect, its basis being statute law throughout the world and the experience of its application. Professor Lipszyc’s work represents a remarkable contribution in this respect. It gives the teaching of copyright and neighbouring rights a greater operational dimension in a universal context. Set out as a university manual, it presents, with its clear and searching approach, the many and varied aspects of this important legal discipline as reflected in the different laws throughout the world, the relevant international conventions and current international thinking on the subject, in the light of technological progress in the methods of creation, production and dissemination of works of the mind. It offers appropriate clarification of legal concepts hitherto the province of specialists, and makes them more readily understood. This work is, in short, a precious resource with which students and specialists in copyright and neighbouring rights can be provided, and an invaluable tool in aiding the various parties involved in cultural activity to organize their professional relationships on a sound and equitable basis." (Preface)
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"This yearbook compiles research findings on children and youth and media violence from the perspective of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The thematic focus of this yearbook is on what is being done to combat gratuitous media violence. It presents information on media educ
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ation and children's media participation. Section 1 of the yearbook, "Children's Access to Media and Media Use," presents research on media access and use for children in Europe and worldwide. Section 2, "The Image of the Child in the Media," details how children are presented in news and entertainment media, and in advertising, in various countries. Section 3, "Media Education," provides information on media education programs in Canada, South Africa, Australia, the Nordic countries, the UK, India, and Latin America. Section 4, "Children's Participation in the Media," includes articles describing programs from various countries in which children and youth participate in media production, such as videotapes, television, radio, the Internet, and magazines. Section 5 contains several international declarations and resolutions concerning children and the media. Section 6 provides information on organizations worldwide concerned with children and the media, and a compilation of Internet addresses by and for children." (https://files.eric.ed.gov)
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