In honor of United Nations day, Oct. 23, there was a seminar in the Law school about the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Gloria Dogan, communications liaison of UNICEF and Jane Barru, vice president of the UN, were speakers at this seminar. They explained many advances for children that the Convention on the Rights of the Child is responsible for.

Some of these improvements are related to health. Thirty years ago one in four children in the world died before they were five, now only one in 10 die. In 1980 only 10 percent of the children in the world were immunized against the six most deadly diseases, now 75 percent of the children are.

The overall principle of this convention is that what is done in a country should be done in the best interest of its children. Also the Convention gives a voice to children who aren’t always heard.

This includes standing up for them in terms of health, discrimination, abuse and standards of living.

The message of this seminar was how important the Convention on the Rights of the Child was for the children of the world. Because of this Convention millions of children will live healthier lives.