| The State of the World's Children 2000 seeks to fan the
flame that burned so brilliantly a decade ago when world leaders adopted the
Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989 and then confirmed their
commitments for children and adolescents at the 1990 World Summit for Children.
It is a call to leaders in industrialized and developing countries alike to
reaffirm their promises for children. It is a call for vision and leadership
within families and communities, where the respect for the rights of children
and women is first born and nurtured and where the protection of those rights
begins. And it is a call to all people to realize a new dream within a single
generation: a shared vision of children and women - indeed of humankind - freed
from poverty and discrimination, freed from violence and disease. |
