Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.