Practice

Featured International Field Program
  • IFP Brazil, Rio de Janerio: Human Rights and Media
    The Rio summer program, in close collaboration with Pontifica
    Universidade Catolica and Viva Rio, one of the leading NGOs in the city,
    offers the possibility of studying the human rights and media in
    practice.

    Human Rights Themes Include:

    • Children's rights
    • Human Security
    • Street Children
    • Women's human rights
    • HIV harm reduction and human rights,
    • violence and public safety
    • youth media development

    Media Practices include:

    • digital and visual inclusion projects
    • documentary film production, photojournalism
    • web design and building web content
    • human rights education curriculum
    • community journalism and radio
    • youth media projects
    Lavinia Ion
    The program will place students with various NGOs to conduct research,and to design and implement media projects. Potential internship organizations include:
    Promundo: Youth and Children
    Sao Martinho: Street Children
    CRIAR: Community Radio
    Viva Favela: Community Journalism, Visual Inclusion, Photojournalism, Human Rights
    Observatorio de FaVELA: Photography/Youth Media
    Viva Rio: Peace Campaigns, Human Rights, Public Safety, Human Security
    Solar Meninos de Luz: Youth Media/Photography
    Comitê para Democratizaçao da Informática (CDI): Digital Inclusion/Youth Media
    Cinema Nossa: Youth Media/Film Production
    Spetaculo: Youth Media
    Morrinho: Youth Media
    Center for Human Rights at Catholic Univ: Human Rights Research
    The internships are complemented with site visits to community-based human rights organizations, presentations by human rights and media scholars, and exhibitions/film screenings. The course is designed to introduce a wide range of initiatives to present a holistic experience of human rights and media practice.
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