According to Bellamy, such odds are completely unacceptable in a world where almost every nation has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Convention states that all children have the right to basic health and education, as well as protection from the ravages of war, hazardous labour and sexual exploitation. To improve the prospects of the six billionth child, a broad swath of interventions are needed. Close the widening gap between rich and poor. Today, the richest one fifth of humanity has 82 times the income of the poorest fifth - and consumes 86 per cent of the world's resources.
Poverty disproportionately victimises children and women.
Debt relief and debt cancellation for the world's poorest nations are among the priority steps that urgently need to be taken. Address the growing peril of armed conflicts. These conflicts have increasingly targeted children and women, degraded societies, brutally harmed innocents and displaced families. As many as 300,000 children have been pressed into military service. All nations should approve raising the age of military recruitment to 18.