MARIT STINUS-CABUGON
THIRTY years have passed since the world’s nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Impressive gains have been made since then. For instance, mortality among children below five years has been brought down from 12.5 million to about 5.3 million (2018). Of course, 5.3 million is still a number which is hard to comprehend — it means that more than 14,000 young children die every day, mostly from preventable diseases.