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

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

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.

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

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

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

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