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UNESCO supports ‘Together for Peace Media Awards’
The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) presented this year’s ‘Together for Peace Media Awards’ (T4P Media Awards) at the 7th ABU Media Summit on Climate Action and Disaster Prevention, which was graciously hosted by the Government of the Republic of Maldives from 9 through 10 May 2023
The 2nd ABU Together4Peace Media Awards, granted this year in the categories of ‘TV’, ‘Radio’ and ‘Digital’, highlight innovative media content in areas of commitment shared by ABU and UNESCO:
1) Transformative education through media, cultural, and community activities
2) Living ethically and sustainability on a shared planet
3) Living well with super diversity, including overcoming hate speech, discrimination, and oppression in all its forms
ABU constitutes the largest broadcasting union in the world, its membership roster boasting 70 public broadcasters collectively reaching audiences in the millions throughout Asia and the Pacific.
UNESCO and ABU established the ‘Together for Peace Media Awards’ (T4P Media Awards) as a joint undertaking to foster global awareness of UNESCO’s fundamental peace mandate. Today UNESCO promotes a concept of ‘positive peace’, whereby public and independent journalism and civic media literacy can play a central role in building peace in the minds of men and women locally, regionally, and globally, and in a world of ever burgeoning ‘super diversity’.
In a celebratory message, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information Dr Tawfik Jelassi stated:
Peace means more than the absence of conflict. Positive Peace requires the presence of justice, universal access to knowledge and information, and freedom of media professionals to exercise their job.
The Republic of Maldives, a UN ‘Small Island Developing State’ with ground surfaces no higher than 3 meters above sea level, is at great and evermore unpredictable disaster risk, with a precipitous rise in the global sea level attributed primarily to climate change.
UNESCO representatives from the Bangkok and Jakarta Multisectoral Regional Offices joined a panel discussion addressing climate journalism, with a focus on media capacity development and media and information literacy, including discussion of the importance of vigorously combating climate disinformation.
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Full list of winners and finalists:
Transformative Education, Digital:
- Thank you, Miss Deng! Malanhua Children’s Choir Sings at Beijing Winter Olympic Games | CMG-CCTV, China
- Downgrading of Giant Pandas and “New Move” of Protection Area| SRTS-China
- Land of the Extinct: how does the local city collapse? | KBS Korea (WINNER)
Transformative Education, Radio:
- Zhang Jiaxin: The man who shepherds seniors into the digital universe / CGTN, China
- Carpenter girls | Gilan Radio, IRIB Radio Department for Provinces, Iran (WINNER)
- 2 minutes to save the Earth / Traffic Broadcasting Network / Korea
Transformative Education, TV:
- Seeing touch – I saw the world| KBS, Korea
- Afghanistan’s loud mute voices |RT, Russia
- The School That Tried to End Racism | ABC, Australia (WINNER)
Living Well with Superdiversity, Digital:
- Sea of Sound | CMG-CRI, China
- Multicultural Society in Bangkok | Thai PBS, Thailand
- How Berlin became a hub for trans people | DW, Germany (WINNER)
- The Muralist | Voice of America, USA
Living Well with Superdiversity, Radio:
- Enlightened by Music: 44 Visually Impaired Children and Their World Journey / CMG-CRI, China (WINNER)
- LANGHOLZFELD / Radio Romania, Romania (WINNER)
- Sistas Let’s Talk / ABC, Australia
Living Well with Superdiversity, TV:
- Watch Me! – A Decade of Deaf-defying Dance |KBS, Korea (WINNER)
- You jump, I will catch you| MTVA, Hungary
- The Show with the Elephant: Diversity | WDR, Germany
Ethical & Sustainable Relationship with Nature , Digital
- We and the earth | CMG-CRI, China
- Finding Australia’s Favourite | ABC, Australia (special commendation)
- Planet A – Can Brazil save the Amazon this time? | DW, Germany (WINNER)
Ethical & Sustainable Relationship with Nature , Radio:
- Chief Shen and His Zoo / CMG-CNR, China (WINNER)
- The scariest sound/ Ghasem Lotfie/Individual Producer/Iran (special commendation)
- Going Home / Sichuan TV and Radio, China
Ethical & Sustainable Relationship with Nature , TV:
- China: Nature’s Ancient Kingdom ep02 Central: A Balancing Act | CMG-CCTV, China
- The Recycling Myth | a & o buero filmproduktion, Germany (special commendation)
- How is climate change affecting young Africans today? | The 77 Percent Show | DW, Germany (WINNER)
