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UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.
Carol Bellamy
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The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
Carol Bellamy
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In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
Carol Bellamy
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I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war.
Carol Bellamy
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It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
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Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
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Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.
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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.
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The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
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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.
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Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.
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By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
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And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
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Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.
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