Groundbreaking UN television series.

"A Matter of Rights, a video project exploring the right to development, comprises 52 five-minute television features and 12 promotional spots. All themes--poverty alleviation, environmental protection, provision of basic infrastructure, employment and other human rights--are of deep concern to countries throughout the Asia and Pacific region.

"We feel that this project on promoting the right to development is a good example of how the United Nations regional commissions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and donor Governments can work together to promote human rights and development throughout the world", said David Lazarus, Chief of the United Nations Information Services, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

The series was completed after two years of collaboration between ESCAP, Worldview International Foundation and YA*TV (Young Asia Television), with the support of the Government of Norway.

The spots bring to audiences, through public broadcasters and NGOs, images that make it clear why development is a fundamental right to which all human beings are entitled. It interprets the right to development in day-to-day terms. The fundamental message of the series is that access of ordinary citizens to the basics of life, like nutrition and adequate income, is as much a part of human rights as the right to liberty or freedom of speech.