1.        To know our national or regional reality.

That means: contacting the national or international bodies which are working on the topic. In each country which has signed up, a government group is working solely on the Convention, its application, its consistency with the national laws. Each country has had to face up to the Convention. It is useful to know what reserves your country has set aside for ratifying the Convention and why.

Furthermore, it can be very worthwhile to contact specialist jurists who are reframing national laws or are members of the body supervising what each country has had to put in place.

This first step is important. It ensures one’s participation in the long term and in the structural changes because the defence of the Rights of the Child is made mainly in the juridical field. We have to be there.

In certain countries the municipalities have all the representatives of the Rights of the Child. We could be there in a systematic way, consistent with a district plan.