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"We are not the sources of problems; we are the resources that are needed to solve them. We are not expenses; we are investments. We are not just young people, we are people and citizens of this world."
From "A World Fit for Us Message from the Children's Forum, 5-7 May 2002, United Nations Special Session on Children
Children in Fact
There are 2.2 billion children under 18 years old in the world - this is almost one third of the world's population.
Adolescents, age 10-19, represent 18 per cent of the total population. • 1 billion children are deprived of one or more services essential to survival
and development, • 2 million children under age 15 worldwide are living with HIV.
215 million children are engaged in child labour. • 101 million children are not attending primary school. • 51 million children are unregistered at birth.
For more statistics on children, see http://www.childinfo.org/index.html
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