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'Progress' on child poverty
More than 300 million children are made to work and over 6m die from preventable causes
The UN children's agency has hailed tremendous progress since the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted nearly 25 years ago.
However, Unicef said more than 300 million children are still made to work and over 6m die from preventable causes.
On the plus side, the agency said 90m children who would have died before their fifth birthday if child mortality rates stayed at their 1990 level are alive today.
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