Global Child

Osaka Declaration
Declaration of the International Conference on Human Rights Education in the Asia-Pacific Region. Supporting the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004) which promotes Human Rights education all around the world.

Facts that motivate ToLoveChildren's goal: to create a sustainable educational environment for children in the developing world: 12 million children under the age of five die every year, mostly of easily preventable causes. (That is an average of one million children a month, or 33,333 children everyday)

One in five children in the United States of America live in poverty.

130 million children in developing countries are not in primary school. The majority of these children are girl children.

160 million children are severely or moderately malnourished.

1.4 billion people lack access to safe water-1.7 billion lack adequate sanitation. (children make up this figure)

Some nation-states (including the United States, Texas) are moving increasingly toward punitive systems of juvenile justice.

Many children languish in orphanages and denied health care and education.

250 million children are engaged in some form of labor.

300,000 children serve as child solders last year. Many are maimed and many more have been forced to maim others.

Aids have inflicted millions of children. (World Health Organization)

2 million girls annually are faced with traditional sexual mutilation.

(UNICEF, 1999)

Source: UNICEF

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