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

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

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more education and information, using schools and other sites; more protection for girls, orphaned children and young women;and more partnerships with people with HIV and AIDS.

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.

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

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