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

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.

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

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

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.

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