In today's world, to be born female is to be born high risk. Every girl grows up under the threat of violence,

The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.

Be it in the West or the developing world, we are confronting grave problems in the violation of children's rights. We want to put a face on this crisis, rather than just have people feel sorry for the little children.

Millions of children throughout the world are being bought and sold like chattel and used as sex slaves,

I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.