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

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.

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

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

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.

Learn all you can about people in other parts of the world. Understanding how people in other countries live and work and play teaches us to respect them and promote peace everywhere.