“The principle of ‘all children, all rights’ is still much too far from being a reality.”
Kofi Annan, in " The Progress of Nations 2000”
Vital statistics

• Over half-a-biliion children in developing countries are struggling to survive on less than $1 per day.
• About 2 million children in developing countries die every year from a lack of access to safe drinking water and adequate hygiene and sanitation facilities.
• Over 110 million primaty school age children worldwide are not enrolled in school.
• 500,000 children under 15 years of age died from AIDS İn 1999, and 3.8 million died since the beginning of the epidemic.
• 11 million children die each year from largely preventable causes.
• More than 33 million children suffer from vitamin A deficiency, placing them at risk of blindness and death from such common diseases as measles and diarrhoea.
• An estimated 250 million children aged 5 to 14 are working around the world.
• Close to 2 million children have been killed in armed conflicts during the past decade.