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.
From Carol Bellamy
Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
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.
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.
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.
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.
Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.
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