Promises to keep

"The promises of the past have left us disenchanted. The result is not what you said, which is why we are worried." Gael, 18, from Chad, speaking at the Children's Forum

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At a press conference at the UN Special Session on Children, New York, USA.

It is one thing to agree to a set of rights for children and young people. It is quite another to make sure they are applied throughout the world.

These pages are about efforts to turn words into actions and actions into results. In particular, they look at what progress has been made since the Convention on the Rights of the Child came into force, in 1989, and at a fresh campaign to assert your rights in the new millennium.

Answer the following question to find out more about children's issues during the 1990s. The correct answer is in the next page.

In the 1990s, deaths among infants and children under five years of age were cut by how many per year:
1 million
3 million