Building Better Cities with Children and Youth

In 1990, at the World Summit for Children, the international community pledged itself to achieve a number of targets for children, including dramatic reductions in early mortality and malnutrition, and universal access to safe water and adequate sanitation by the year 2000. Similar commitments had been made 15 years earlier, which were meant to have ensured universal access to safe water and adequate sanitation by 1990 - at the first Conference on Human Settlements in 1976 and the Water Conference in 1977.

and Hardoy, J E , D Mitlin , D Satterthwaite (2001), Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World, Earthscan, London .

Only Somalia and the USA have failed to ratify the Convention, making it the most widely accepted international treaty in existence.

Arts. 12, 13, 14, 15 and 31.

also Driskell, David (in collaboration with members of the Growing Up in Cities project ), (2002), Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth: A Manual for Participation, Earthscan (London) and UNESCO (Paris) .