The honorees were recognized Friday for their efforts to highlight migration, identity and diversity issues at a United Nations-backed ceremony.
The winners were selected by an international jury out of more than 150 videos from 36 countries.
In the 9-12 age category, a group of 12 Palestinian children were honored for their animated film, "Warda," which examines how young people perceive the wall between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
Youngmin Kim from the Republic of Korea, in the 13-17 age category, was celebrated for her clay-animated video narrating the challenges of a young girl of Korean and Uzbek descent.
Veronica Owusu Kyei, Yanira Incio Noe and Zouine Chaimaa -- from Ghana, Peru and Morocco, respectively -- were recognized for their film, "Something to Exchange: A Dialogue Between Old and New Migrants," in the 18-25 age group. Their piece challenges misperceptions of immigrant communities in Italy, organizers said.
The award-winning videos will be shown at festivals and events around the world next year.
"Despite the increased efforts of the international community, including civil society, in promoting sound, equitable, humane and lawful conditions of migration, the human rights of migrants often remain out of sight,"
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in a statement.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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