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A Life Like Mine

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Find out how children live around the world - now in paperback

Introduction

"There are millions of children, leading different lives, all over the world. You speak different languages, look different, and face all manner of challenges every day. However, although you live thousands of miles apart, in many respects your needs and hopes are alike.

It is for this reason that the Convention on the Rights of the Child has been drawn up and accepted by almost every country of the world. It promises essential rights to every one of the world's children. Each child, boys and girls equally, has a right to education, health care, food, shelter, play and protection - and much more.

A Life Like Mine records the courage, energy, joy and optimism of children from all over the world. Some of the children in this book enjoy every privilege in their lives, others have been deprived of some of their basic rights. I hope you enjoy meeting them and that you discover the similarities between their lives and your own.

You are special. You deserve protection and support as you grow to adulthood. You are part of the present, but all of the future."

Jemima Khan UNICEF UK Special Representative

All over the world, children are leading their lives in completely different and fascinating ways. Faced with many different hurdles, they all have one thing in common: a passion for life. Together DK and UNICEF combine their inspirational forces to give a remarkable insight into their lives.

• Share the courage, energy, joy, dignity and above all optimism of the children of our world
• Over 300 specially-commissioned photographs help you to enter into the life of each individual child
• Based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, it introduces you to children who have unique and uplifting stories to tell.

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