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By Evelyn Seubert

September 11, 2001. The first seeds of courage, cooperation and creativity that would become the International Youth Media Summit (IYMS) were planted that day in the ashes of terror and hatred. And many more seeds were planted that same week when Aileen Marshall from Scotland and Evelyn Seubert from the USA met for the first time. The horrible events of 9/11, fresh in their minds, brought special urgency to their mission: to create media collaborations across cultures, bringing young people together to have a voice in the future. More>>>>>

Jul

24

Dear CIFEJ members

Call for proposals to host the next General Assembly in 2009. The candidate must be prepared to host a 5 days meeting, offering technical facilities, a choice of venue for lectures, conferences, workshops, screenings, local transportation and coordination committee that will take care of hotel reservation and other technicalities. The deadline is the 24th August 2008. Please send entries to info@cifej.com

Call for proposals for the Permanent Head Office. We need a final decision for the next General Assembly. Please send entries to info@cifej.com

Next Board Meeting will be held in Belgrade, during the 3rd International Youth Media Summit, 24th and 25th of August.

Jul

13

o3one galery

In June 2006. the delegates from 26 countries (among which was MEC from Serbia) founded in Los Angeles a world movement “International Youth Media Summit” with the objective to use the creative energy of young people as means of battle against seven global problems: violence, racism, poverty, environment, health, women’s rights and youth empowerment! Today, the movement consists of organizations from more than forty countries. This exhibition is one part of the 3rd International Youth Media Summit which is being held in Belgrade at the same time, and it will show photos and multimedia material created by young people from all around the World.

MORE about o3one gallery >>>> 

Jun

30

Presiden of Serbia

Republic of Serbia
Secretary General of
The President of Serbia
Office of the President

Belgrade, June 16th 2008.

Dear Mr. Rajcevic,

Regarding your letter in which you notified us that the 3rd World Summit of Media for Youth will be held in Belgrade from 19th to 28th of August 2008. and invited His Excellency Boris Tadic, the President of Serbia to support the event, we wish to inform you that the President of Serbia supports this Summit, because of the importance of education of youth and their cooperation with young people from other countries.

We wish you much success in your work

Jun

28

Global Warming
By: Saki Fujiwara, Japan

We had a record high temperature (over 40 C degrees) this summer. Many people, particularly elder people and children suffered heat exhaustion form abnormal weather. Also, we had to wait autumn leaves one month later than usual.

1. How has this issue affected you personally?
I could not put up with high temperature.

2. On this issue, what are the changes you think need to be made?
a) in your country?
I think that the abnormal weather could be improved if everybody aware global warming and try to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. For example, we should reduce the need for the air-conditioning which is a major factor of global warming. Government should control the greenhouse gas emissions, too. MORE>>>>>>>>>>

Jun

28

In developed countries, they have succeeded to put women’s rights in the equal position as men in few decades. Therefore, many women in the world have a job not just copying data or preparing tea for men but doing pretty difficult and important works.
However, there still is prejudice against women working like men do. It is surely difficult to get used to women working for people who only saw their fathers working in their childhood. But on the other hand, time can do much for the problem. In a few years, those prejudices would decrease as it did in these a few years, and those —– men or women —– who have abilities, would be required in the company. Women of course, have to do much to make this change smoother. MORE>>>>>>>>>>

Jun

28

Women’s rights is something that has been, fortunately, dealt with within the United States. It seems to the average immigrant that the USA has freedoms beyond any other country. However, I would greatly disagree. Women have been degraded, prosecuted, and dehumanized since the dawn of time even within the freedom of our state.
At the California Institute of Technology, female professors are far below those of men. Throughout the school, the faculty is 10% women. Ten years ago it was only 4% women. Even though there is an increase within the past years, it is too conservative for the school which has been labeled ‘sexist’ by many feminism groups. And CalTech’s side of the story? They deny that they purposefully try and maintain a low percentage of women within the school however, having spoken to a female CalTech graduate, her side of the story is that women are made to seem incompetent, irrelevant, and down-right stupid compared to men. Their expected to fail and therefore must deem themselves far above average to maintain status within the school.
In the United States about 16% of all sexual assaults are reported. However, the US’s assault rate is four times higher than that of Germany and twenty times greater than that of Japan. Now, does that mean that women within the US feel safer in reporting the attacks and that is why the statistics are so high? Or, are assaults higher in the US? In a country where one in five women are sexually abused in their college years, how have we allowed it to get so bad? My answer to this is ‘ignorance’. We have grown to believe that we do not need to know what or why anything is occurring throughout the world because we believe that others can solve our problems, not ourselves. Organizations that help rape victims (RAINN or SafeHorizon) should make their message more widely heard. It is hard for me to understand when we care more about the next new cell phone or Ipod, than about gender issues that are destroying the nation. MORE>>>>>>>>>>>>

Jun

28

    Poverty: is something that affects all communities because when there is poverty there are lots of problems that come along with them; such as malnutrition and worst of all death.
Poverty affects my personality because it is something that then makes me grateful for what I do have. But then I feel bad that I can’t help all of them.
I think that some of the changes about poverty that should be made within my country are that people and our government shouldn’t just let it pass on by as if nothing is wrong.
Around the world the biggest change that I think should be made is that big dominate countries shouldn’t ignore the problems going on in 3rd world countries.
I think that our young nation can guarantee a change in poverty because now we are seeing the big effect that poverty is having in both our communities and our planet.
Within the next decade I think that we will have made the movement towards improving poverty because by that time everyone in the world would have gotten the message.
I am willing to do anything that will improve our wonderful nation and world. I would like to give future generations a better place to live without having to worry about things such as poverty, racism, violence, ECT.
I would say that poverty is just like a virus we never know when we are next, but the worst part of it all is that no one is really immune.
I have joined many youth organizations which teach kids to take up extra curricular activities instead of taking up drugs or gangs.

Erick Fuentes-Casas, student-diplomat, USA

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This is ME

June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

CIFEJ, through its Kids For Kids movement, his proud to announce a partnership with the directors of the Spanish cinema school for young filmmakers, Orson the Kid, on another groundbreaking project called:

this is me

on the rights of the child

 

A feature film written, designed, interpreted, directed and edited by 100 children and adolescents from Europe, Latin and North America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. An original project conceived, developed, produced and directed by the film school for children and youth ORSON the KID.

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May

29

How many times have you heard on the news that somebody got beat up in brought day light with a lot witnesses? Sure you have, we all have. A lot of people every day are victims senseless violence. And almost all the time, there are witnesses. Why doesn’t any of them do anything to help the victim? This is why.

If you were on a street full of people and suddenly a man started beating another man or a girl and everybody turned and saw what was happening, would you call the police? No, probably not. Nor would any of them. But, if you were alone on the street and saw the same event, you would have probably called 911. Why? Because it’s in human nature to expect that somebody else would call the police, that somebody else would help. The problem is, everybody expects that so nobody does anything. The fact is, it’s much more probable that, the bigger the crowd is, the less are the chances that anybody will help. In the end, somebody calls the police, but usually, it’s too late.

In conclusion, people should try to be more self-aware and considered and should learn that they should be the ones to make a change. They should always help because if they don’t, it could cause somebody their life. 

Summit, Belgrade 2008

VIOLENCE

Isidora Pejović, Media Education Centre


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