Every child has a right to grow, to develop, and to achieve their full potential as human beings.
But what many people don t know is that today, virtually every child in the world lives in a country that has accepted legal responsibility for the realization of children s rights by ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Convention on the Rights of the Child and other human rights instruments, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, makes the welfare of women and children a matter of international law. These human rights instruments also recognize that the realization of women s and children s rights is a fundamental condition for sustained improvements in human development. And the right to adequate nutrition more particularly to food, health and care, as the Convention on the Rights of the Child puts it - is a cornerstone in building towards such sustained improvements. Because good nutrition is so inextricably linked with the economic well being of communities, realizing women s and children s right to food, health and care is a rapid, effective way of achieving progress towards the realization of all rights.