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

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.

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

A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights.

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

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.

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