 | Plan of Action for the Survival, Protection and Development of Children (United Nations) |
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The Convention on the Rights of the Child | |
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Child health |
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Food and nutrition |
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Role of women, maternal health and family
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Role of the family |
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Basic education and literacy |
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Children in especially difficult circumstances |
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Protection of children during armed conflicts |
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Children and the environment |
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Alleviation of poverty and revitalization of economic
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7. Within the context of these overall goals, there are promising opportunities for eradicating or virtually eliminating age-old diseases that have afflicted tens of millions of children for centuries and for improving the quality of life of generations to come. Achievement of these goals would also contribute to lowering population growth, as sustained decline in child death rates towards the level at which parents become confident that their first children will survive is, with some time lag, followed by even greater reduction in child births. To seize these opportunities the Declaration of the World Summit for Children calls for specific actions in the following areas:
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