PIP: The 81st Inter-Parliamentary Union resolution on the rights of the child includes the following: a background summary of the acknowledges importance of the rights of children contained in the UN's declaration of the Rights of the Child; the proclamation of the International Year of the Child; the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; the irreplaceable role of UNICEF and the work of non-governmental organizations in safeguarding the lives and well-being of children throughout the world; and the consistent work of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in improving the well-being of children. The resolution reviews the needs of children; the importance of the family; and the extreme poverty, malnutrition, hunger, illness, maltreatment, environmental pollution, lack of social provisions for physical and mental development, neglect, physical abuse, abduction, drug abuse, exploitation for labor, prostitution, or pornography that pose a grave threat to the world's children. The economic factors of debt divert important funding from child welfare. The implementation of the concrete provisions in the draft Convention on the Rights of the child asks each Parliament and Government to make the necessary changes in national legislation to align it with the provisions of the Convention. The Union strongly urges parliamentarians the world over 1) to propose new legislation in fields such as taxation, social security, labor, housing, health care, working hours, parental leave as well as education and services that will enable parents to ensure that their children enjoy the best possible conditions for their psychological, physical, intellectual, and emotional development and 2) to follow other recommendations. Economic considerations are addressed with recommendations, and special concerns are enumerated.