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

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.

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

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.

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.