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

In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.

While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.

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.

Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make.

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

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