WESTERN BUREAU:
UNITED NATIONS Children's Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador, philanthropist and actor Danny Glover has issued a mandate to the public and private sectors to do more to protect the rights of children across the Diaspora.
Addressing several of the Caribbean's leading philanthropic agencies at the second annual Conference on Caribbean Philan-thropy, in Montego Bay, St. James, last week, Glover said nation builders were giving little more than lip service to the rights of children.
CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE
"I have been travelling with UNICEF for six years as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme and I have been struck by something disturbing," he said. "Everywhere I have gone, from Ethiopia to Brazil and the Caribbean, I have heard people say that children are our future and we must do everything possible to nurture and protect them. But at the same time, what I have seen through my travels is that the reality of children's lives does not reflect that consensus."
Glover claimed that, despite the global commitment to a world fit for children, the children of today are not thriving as they should.
