The World's Children Click on any image below for a larger JPEG image. A Japanese boy paints a homemade tree in Tokyo. Two Ethiopian children absorbed in each other's beads. A boy plays with his pet parrot in Santarem in the Amazon region of Brazil.
Boys play on a slide in Guatemala.
An Afghan refugee boy plays with makeshift toys Pakistan. A child of a homeless family holds her doll on the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Two school boys enjoy reading in Bhutan. Mill ions of children die every year from malnutrition and disease or become victims of slavery, torture and sexual exploitation. It is the United Nations that, in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, has provided a standard, a benchmark against which the behaviour of nations can be tenaciously and perpetually measured and improved.