THE TASK
- Enhancement of children’s health and nutrition is a first duty, and also a task for which solutions are now within reach. The lives of tens of thousands of boys and girls can be saved every day, because the causes of their death are readily preventable. Child are infant mortality is unacceptable high in many parts of the world, but can be lowered dramatically with means that are already known and easily accessible.
- Further attention, care and support should be accorded to disabled children, as well as to other children in very difficult circumstances.
- strengthening the role of women in general and ensuring their equal right will be to the advantage of the world’s children. Girls should be given equal treatment and opportunities from the very beginning.
- At present, over 100 million children are without basic schooling, and two-thirds of them are girls.The provision of basic education and literacy for all are among the most important contributions that can be made to the development of the world’s children.
