Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.

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.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'

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

...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity.

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.