The Movement will then take the message of the Special Session to the world, and hold leaders accountable for the agreements they have made. What we demand of our leaders, we also demand of ourselves. The Global Movement for Children calls on everyone, everywhere, to do as much as possible, in their own time and their own way, for children. Join the Movement, and make a difference. Our Rallying Call In every child who comes into the world, the hopes and dreams of the human race are born anew.
Children are the bearers of our common future - a future that is in our hands as never before.
For the world has the knowledge, the resources and the legal imperatives to give every child the best possible start in life, in a family environment that offers the love, the care and the nurturing that children need to grow, to learn - and to develop to the fullest. The entire community of nations acknowledged as much when they embraced the Convention on the Rights of the Child - and vowed, a decade ago, to fulfil the goals of the World Summit for Children. These obligations must be met, not only by governments, but by all of us. That is why we, as citizens of every nation and members of families, communities, and civil society organizations of every kind, hereby resolve to help mobilize a Global Movement for Children - an unstoppable crusade to end, at long last, the poverty, ill health, violence and discrimination that have needlessly blighted and destroyed so many young lives. Our determination is rooted in the knowledge that in furthering the best interests of children, the most effective actions must come from within the context of our own lives and hearts, and from listening to children and young people themselves.