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“I think he is an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer.”
“The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.”
“In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.”
“Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.”
“And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.”
“Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.”
“It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.”
“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.”
“Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.”
“I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.”
“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.”
“Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.”
“UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.”
“By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.”
“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.”
“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.”
“And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.”
“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.”
“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.”
“New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.”