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The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on November 20, 1989, is a powerful addition to the international human rights framework. While great progress has been made on children’s rights over the past 20 years, much work remains to be done. With the chief goal of engaging the academic and professional community in discussion on what needs to be done to bring child rights issues to the forefront of national and international agendas, the Graduate Program in International Affairs and UNICEF, will host a three-part film series dedicated to the issue of children’s rights. Each event will feature a documentary film focusing on a range of global child’s rights, a presentation by the film director, followed by Q&A. Behind Closed Eyes–Dreams of a Kite Thousands of children all over the world are being killed, injured, and orphaned by landmines and unexploded ordnance discarded or fired by combatants. In Cambodia, one of the worst affected countries, children account for about half of all landmine casualties. Dreams of a Kite features 13-year-old Nhom who lost his leg. He is also an orphan who, in order to build a future for himself, must leave his younger brother and aunt to get an education in an orphanage in the big city. Fitted with a new prosthetic leg, Nhom feels shame about his handicap and struggles with being away from his family. He becomes friends with another young amputee (25 minutes).
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