Obstacles remain to Children's rights.

• Position: UN Reported: News on the United Nations System at Work - Brief Article

The United Nations CHILDREN'S Fund (UNICEF) on 13 September released The State of the World's Children 2002 report, in which it identified conflict, HIV/AIDS and poverty as the main obstacles in protecting children's rights. Although significant progress has been made, many goals of the 1990 World Summit for Children have not been met. From 1990 to 2000, for instance, 2 million children were killed, 6 million injured or disabled, and 12 million left homeless because of armed conflicts. On 24 September, a UN expert panel opened a...