The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations for decades to come. By contrast, the physical, emotional and intellectual impairment that poverty inflicts on children canmean a lifetime of suffering and want - and a legacy of poverty for the next generation.

The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations for decades to come. By contrast, the physical, emotional and intellectual impairment that poverty inflicts on children canmean a lifetime of suffering and want - and a legacy of poverty for the next generation.

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.

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

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

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.