Lesotho: LESOTHO: Launch of children’s report

The United Nations Children’s Fund has launched the 2003 State of the World’s Children Report that focuses on the merits and necessities of child participation in all matters affecting them. The report was launched in Maseru, Lesotho. The report calls on adults ‘to seek out the perspectives and opinions of children and to take their viewpoints seriously, in order to help children and adolescents to develop the ability to participate in the world in a competent, authentic and meaningful way’.