Cartoon Network joins PAHO, UNICEF to educate kids about preventing Zika (2)

4 October, 2020

Dear CHIFA members

This is a huge gain as so many “children’s cartoons” minimise the results of violence with characters who “kill” each other, fall down and rise up again. Apart from the images of violence this feeds into a concept of death divorced from reality.

Dr Joan van Niekerk

CHIFA Profile: Joan van Niekerk is a Child Protection Consultant (serve several NGOs) in South Africa. Professional interests: Child Rights, child protection, including prevention and response.

Email address: joanvn AT iafrica.com