Vanessa Redgrave visited Sussex today. She gave a fascinating, and moving, 40 minute talk covering her early wartime memories to her role as an international ambassador for UNICEF. She became involved in UNICEF following the end of the first Gulf War, and her work with UNICEF has taken her to many of the most deprived and war-damaged countries of the world.
Central to UNICEF's work is the Convention on the Rights of the Child [pdf], the most universally accepted human rights instrument in history. Only two member states of the UN have failed to ratify it: Somalia, and the United States.