UNBC: Children's Rights Lecture
Thursday, Jan 24, 7:00 pm
6-213 (Canfor Theatre)
If you attend this lecture post a comment including the following:
- The names and titles of the speakers.
- A brief summary of each speakers' message outlining their main points.
- The purpose of the lecture, eg. a call to action or informational.
- What was the most interesting thing you took away form the lecture.
- What in your thinking on this topic was either changed, reinforced or confirmed.
- How this lecture ties into the themes and topics we have been examining in Social Studies 11.
- What advice would you give to the speakers regarding their presentation or their message.
10 comments:
I have it written out and everything so i'll hand it in block b, thanks
CM
This lecture held at UNBC on Thursday , Jan 24 at 7:00 pm was in thesis of Children and their Rights.
That evening there were seven speakers. The main speaker was the director for Infrastructure & Development, NCCAH, and BC Initiatives for Aboriginal Health- Sandra Griffin. She introduced the remaining speakers and explained a World Fit for Children by 2012. Frank Frederick, Barb Everett, and Chief Dominic Frederick welcomed the audience with and opening prayer, opening song, and a welcoming to the territory.
Representing UNBC was Dr. James Randall who reviewed his personal views on the privileges and thankfulness many of us should have on a decent income and a happy lifestyle, because we are fortunate to have it.
Next was speaker Paula Gallo representing UNICEF who spoke continuously about conventional rights of a child and enhancing the understanding of a child's fundamental capabilities, including the public and young people's views. She spoke highly of UNICEF and their 2012 goals for children.
Presentations took place, first by the Childrens Rights Senator Landon Pearson. She spoke of her great impact on young people and the importance of childrens voices and what they want. Also the encouragement and participation of kids to express and make choices.
Lastly was a presentation by a woman named Margo Greenwood. She contributed to the health and well being of Aboriginal children speaking for Indigenious Children around the World. She shared her grandmother Mary's Story and the understanding (indigenious) perspective of childrens rights.
In closing was a closing prayer from Frank Frederick and closing song from Barb Everett.
The purpose of this lecture was to explain to the public that children deserve their rights just as much as anyone else. It put forth the general principles for young human beings such as Poverty, Health, and Education. This lecture concluded in the development of Progress for Children.
The most interesting thing that I took away from this meeting was the effect that the smallest actions can have on a young child. These speakers are kind enough to take action and work at making childrens lives globally a safe and caring environment by providing, promoting, and protecting them from things such as a healthy lifestyle, quality education and HIV/AIDS.
On this topic of protecting Childrens Rights I left with a totally different persepective from when I entered the room. I left with the knowledge that adults are a VERY important role model and example for small kids of any age. Adults are the ones they look to for guidance and they cant do it on their own. If everyone contributes we can make a young child that is suffering turn around into a collected young adult. These kids are the future generations of adults and together poeple can make a difference in their lives progressively.
In Socials 11 we have talked about children having to go off to war at a young age and give up their lives for their country, as well as working in factories and in poor living conditions. This leacture ties into the hardships that small people must go through in certain parts of the world. This lecture stated that we are working on child progress and a child has a right to stay home and be a kid instead of shipped off to endure terrible conditions.
Finally the advice I would give to the speakers and how they partrayed the message of a world fit for children would be to keep on going. The presentations had a strong impact on most audience members and together we can make a difference.
When I took the presentation, I was shocked with how much one person can make a difference, whether it is the parents who are taking part to model the kids of the future or the youth standing up for thier own rights and opinions in what they believe in. I found it very interesting how 1/2 of the world' population is under the age of 25 and that deaths under the age of five are decreasing showing that we are making a difference, but it's gonna take alot more to make sure that children get the rights that they deserve. Overall I thought that the presentation was really good but I found that they didn't list as many facts as I might want to hear and also I felt that some of the things that they were actually talking about had little to do with the subject itself. My favourite speaker was: hildrens Rights Senator,Landon Pearson who really showed how she made it her life dedication to fight for children's life in hope for a better future. I really thought it was cool to meet her and listen to her speech. The other Speaker that interested me was Margi Greenwood who talked about "Mary's Story." Which I thought was very interesting. Children's rights have been making progress over the years but there still needs to be a big change before we can say we suceeded in our goal for a bright future for us and our children. I think the presentation was more focused to talk to an older audience then my age group but i certainally enjoyed myself and had the chance to be a part in standing up for something that I believe in. I think is is very important to give a child they rights they deserve. Anyway I liked the UNICEF presentation and I even got a free bag out of it! lol. So all and all I was glad that I got to be a part of this presentation and all I can say for them to work on is to try to stay more on topic, some of the things they were talking about might have been neet to know but really didn't have alot to do with what we were talking about. Overall a pretty good presentation on human rights.
p.s. I really liked the opening and ending songs.
Alex K.
The master of ceremonies was the director of Infrastructure and development,Nccah and BC Initiatived for aboriginal health, which was Sandra Griffin. She brought up the other speakers and talked about a world fit for children. Then an opening prayer was done by Elder Frank Fredrick. Following the prayer was an opening song done by Barb Everett. A welcome to the Territory was done by Chief Dominic Fredrick. Dr. James Randall the welcomed us to UNBC, he was a provost at UNBC. He talked about how fortunate we are to live our lifestyles compared to others. Paula gallo the manager of education for development, UNICEF, talked about some chilldrens rights and how children have a voice that should be listened to. There were then presentations by Senator Landon Pearson,She said to involve the child in decisions about them. To talk with them rather about them, because it produces better results. Also, that since there are almost half of the worlds population that are 25, they need to be more involved. The last presentation was done by Margo Greenwood about Indiginous choldren around the world. She told a story about her grandmother. For the end there was a song fron Barb Everett.
This lecture was suppose to show that children have just as many rights as the next person although it didn't really go into much detail about the rights. They were trying to get young people to be involved by telling us to make groups for people that can't play base ball and such, but the didn't really give us any areas where we should focus on. They told us more details on their job descriptions than the actual programs or the production of this program. I would have liked to have some more details on what situations that kids in other countries are going through and how is it being solved. They also mentioned how you should talk with the kids rather about them, when in my personal opinion thats what they did for the lecture. I really didn't see how it contributed to making youg people get involved. The most interesting thing I took away from it was that almost half of the worlds population was under the age of 25, and that deaths of children under the age of five are decreasing. In socials we learn about young children living in poverty, having to go to war at a young age, or being abandoned and starving. Also that many get HIV/AIDS. I realized many of the topics that we covered in socials popped up in this lecture. This is what held my attention. It was good over alll i guess, I just thought that even though they gave you a bunch of books and brochures on the topics they still should have gave a basic idea of some situations or rights surrounding what they were talking about. My perspective when I went in there, didn't change dramatically when I came out. I knew about the poverty and health issues, since I learned about them in socials, and I felt sympathy for the people, and the only thing that differed was that it made me sypathize for them more.
CC
block A
to start the lecture off was the Master of ceremonies Sandra Griffin, director, infrastructure & development, NCCAH & BC inatiatives for Aboriginal Health. Mrs.Griffin introduced the other speakers through out the ceremonie.
First she introduced Elder Frank Frederrick, Lhedli T'enneh who is also a chief. Chief Frank said both the opening prayer and the closing prayer.
Mrs.Griffin the introuced Barb Everett who sang the opening and closing song. Her song was about gathering and welcoming all the different communities into one.
Followed by Dr. James Randall, Provost. He started off by welcoming us to UNBC. His main point was to strived for better, for the younger population and not take anything away from them.
Up came Paula Gallo, Manger Education for developement. She talked about how UNICEF can help, even if you do the slightest bit, its the biggest thing for a child in a 3rd world country.
Senator Landon Pearson then stood up and talked about A canada fir for childern in a world fit for childern.it was about getting childern involved. She really strived on making Civil and political rights known to everybody and how we should respect them. Young people have the right to vote. YOUR VOTE DOES COUNT.Childern also have rights just like adults do: adults have to respect their rights of freedom of speech, privacy ext...She also strived on a childs idea is always important.
To end the final lecture of the speech part stood Margo Greenwood. Her main topic was Indigenous childern around the world. She has fought for childern for 25 years.She told story about her Grandma and her: Marys story.Childern have the right to life, survival and developement. The Indigenous perspective is: Unique language, Unique systems of knowledge and how unique the cultures are. Margo wants the best interest for a child.
Chief frank did another prayer and Barb Everett sang the closing song
The purpose of the lecture was to make people aware of childerns rights and what mainy childern go throught just to survive one day.It put for the general principles for young poeple such as Health, poverty and education.i found the most interesting thing i took away from this lecture was how hard those ladies worked to make childerns rights better. they spent there whole lives trying to make others better, that takes alot of time outta someones life. they put there life on hold, so maybe a child could live one more day, so maybe they could take one child out of poverty.This topic when i first walked in i thought it was going to be really boring and wouldn;t really move me, but when i walked out i realised that young childern really look up and learn from someone older then them. Childern learn from exsperence and everyone needs to learn to be a postive role model so they fallow by example.I totally wasn;t aware that someone could commit 25 years of there life to helping childern and still want to do more.the lecture tied into some of our themes in socails like Geography and Enviorment. It showed how people are living in poverty all because of where they were born, and the litercay rate is very low in 3rd world countries. it also tied in with one of our war topics, and how childern have to fend for there familes at a young age, like going to war. working ext...
I would tell the speakers that they should try an make a little more of an impact, by adding pictures of what they have seen. Just hearing the words doesn;t have the same effect of actually seeing what goes on in other parts of the world.. it makes peopel more aware of whats really happening.An i really didn;t get the point of telling " Mary's story" because it had nothing to do with childern :S.. so i might tell them to leave that out. The over all lecture was good thou
M.L
B.3
To start the lecture a prayer was led by one of the elders of the Lhedli T'enneh tribe, that was followed by a song, sung by Barb Everett. There were two major presentations done.
The first of these was done by former Senator Landon Pearson. Senetor Pearson is a child's advocate. She founded the Canadian coalition for the Rights of Children. She has become known as the Children's Senator. During her speech she highlighted the fact that society does not believe you become a constructive citizen until you are 'of age'. She also gave a message on how to create change:
1)Decide on what issues matter most
2)Take action because you feel strongly about this issue.
3)Decide what aspect is most important
4)Become educated on the issue
5)Get involved with an organization or campaign
After listening to her speech she made me realize our generation is and will be the single greatest agent of change.
The second section of the lecture was done by Margo Greenwood. Margo is an Indigenous scholar and has been working with children for over 20 years. She has worked with UNICEF and has served on the National First Nations Head Start program.
Unfortunatly, her entire 15 minute segment was lost to me. I am still confused on what issues she was trying to raise. She kept reffering to some article, which just added to the confusion. This section was a low point in my eyes.
After speaking with Senator Pearson during the reception, she solidified in my mind that I have to do something. I can't sit back and pretend someone else will do it. How I can do something I am not sure. But mark my words I will.
Thanks you Mr. Lewis for a great semester.
Z.W Blk 2
Canada's Rights Blog: A Canada fit for children in a world fit for children
The presentation began with a prayer and a traditional Carrier song, performed by Barb Everett. The evening was sponsored by UNICEF Canada. The lectures revolved around the conventional rights of the child, to bring awareness, to the problems of, in this case of the Aboriginal children's rights and their political and civil liberties.
The opening remarks were introduced by Paula Gallo, Manager Education for Development, UNICEF.
The presentations involved Children's Rights: A Canada fit for children in a world fit for children, spoken by Landon Pearson.
Worthy of our attention, Indigenous children around the world, spoken by Margo Greenwood. The closing song of goodbye was again performed by Barb Everett.
Senator Pearson , the Children's Senator, spoke mainly of the importance of the voice of young people, which should never be underestimated. Half the world's population is under 25. There are more adolescents than ever before, 85% in developing countries. They are the epicentre for change. Her message is about children with children. She spoke of the 'deeper' issues- the civil and political rights of children. She spoke importantly of how our little decisions count, we are all a part of a fabric. A child's right to be heard is intrical. We must never forget who we are, our ideas are important, and our actions can make a difference in this large adolescent age. The more we know about an issue, the more effective. Young people are the change agents. When we met at the reception, Senator Pearson was excited to learn I was on of the those agents of change she's trying to send the message across to.
Margo Greenwood is the undertaker for research of indigenous people.She spoke from an indigenous perspective. Their spirituality, connections to the land, unique languages, unique systems of knowledge, unique cultures and the importance of preserving their environment, land and future. She spoke of the importance of provisions for indigenous children. The goal should not be to assimilate but to integrate into culture with their unique individuality. Their simple survival is critical. If these children live in poverty, they are deserving of education and not of child abuse, labour, and violence. If there is joy in families, there is light in children. When you heal a child, you heal a family, when you heal a family you heal a community, when you heal a community you heal a nation. What can we do?
The presentation was spoken with passion and quick understanding, but didn't focus on the realities of children. However, we can never appreciate a story unless we've lived it. It was rather sentimental. It focused on people coming together to become a united voice, instead more or less where Canada stands and the future of the children statistically.
I still believe that the situation in many developing countries has improved, but can be deemed irreversible unless the governments don't change within first. That is the real issue that needs focus.
Roxane D.
Block 2
I went to the UNBC to listen to the free lecture about the children's right over the world.
The whole presentation was about 2hours.
The lecture started with a traditional song from the students of UNBC. There were two main speaker,Sandra and Margo.
Both two woman showed a passion towards the children's right.
I was really shocked and surprised that truely our age of generation is in a big role of 'CHANGE'.
More than half percent of opulation was under the age of
'25'. I felt sorry that I haven't done or attempted to do anything for those children in poor countires. They talked about how we could make change. I Could join any non-organization groups and apply for various volunteer programs which would profit both me and them since i can learn lots from them too. One of the speaker, Margo, has been fighting for children's rights and has worked with UNICEF. She seemed really passionate about her work and she told her story about her granma,Mary's story. She spoke of the importance of provisions for indigenous children.
However, I didn't really get the point out of the second speaker because she just kept reffering to the articles and kinda repeating the samething.
I think the purpose of the lecture was to make people aware of poor children in 3rd countries and try to give their rights about education.....etc.
They listed some NGOs, volunteering programs but didn't really talk about how we could join them or how that works.
Overall, It was good speech and I learned a lot !
J.L
Bl.B
Before i write my summary, the lecture made me to think serious about children with poverty and hunger. Besides, i was really surprised that so many children live in hardship in third countries. Actually, I never thought about these children seriously. This lecture made me to decide that I should do something for their rights and future.
It was at UNBC on last Friday. Seven members of UNICEF came to UNBC and lectured about Childrens' Right. The lecture was about 1hr and 30min long.The lecture was started by opening prayer and after that Sandra Griffin who is director of Infrastructure and development, NCCAH & BC Initiatived for aboriginal health
introduced other members.
They introduced about UNICEF breifly and what they are working for.One of speaker, Paula Gallo who is manager of education for development, spoke about better rights of children and enhancing the understanding of childrens' basic abilities. The next speaker was Senator Landon Pearson talked about 'A canada fir for childern in a world fit for childern'. She showed lots of enthusiasm about childrens' right. The last speaker was Margo Greenwood who told us about Mary's story and she told that this story was about her grandmother. However i was not sure about her topic so i was confused about her lecture.
Children's rights have been developing in these years. However, I believe that there should be a big change for a better living conditions and future for children and society. The lecture was ended by closing prayer as the beginning.
During the lecture, i was a little bit disappointed that there were still a bunch of books which they gave to us, but still i thought that what if there were more pictures then it was more easy to understand. Also i believe that the speakers did not tell us about how they work and what they will do detail. However, i enjoyed and there were still many things i learend from lecture.
Brian K
Blk A
The lecture about childrens rights was held at UNBC on thursday January 24th.
This lecture was all about Childrens rights and i learned alot of interesting facts such as the US and samalia remain the only countrys who have not ratified the rights of a child, The rights of a child still have very little real power, UNICEF across Canada is trying to rais awearness,of the world population 1.2 billion are under the age of 25
At the begining of the lecture it begain with an opening prayer led by one of the Lhedi Tenneh tribe members then that was followed up by a song that was song by Barb Everett. Then the former senetor Landon Peorsons had a speech, senetor Peorsons is a child advocut. Then Paula Gallo representing UNICEF had a long speach . she talked about 5 ways to make a change and many other things.
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