Nearly 300 million children in these three countries are living in conditions where their most basic rights are violated – through violence, under education and malnutrition, for example. There is tremendous potential and a demonstrable need for media and communications to contribute to the protection of child rights. The research finds that a wide range of factors currently inhibit media in the three countries samples – India, Brazil and Kenya – from playing a more substantive role in promoting awareness of child rights, as well as in helping children realize their rights and in holding government accountable. - See more at: http://www.internews.eu/News/Protecting-Child-Rights-the-missing-media-link/#sthash.jFYydbrZ.dpuf