UNICEF provided a platform so children can express their views on the issues being debated and decisions made at the G8.
Scottish First Minister, Jack McConnell, today joined young people from both the northern and southern hemispheres to hear their views and receive recommendations on what they think the G8 leaders need to do make child poverty history.
The State of the World's Children 2004 focuses on girls' education and its relationship to all other development goals and to the promise of Education For All.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a grant of $750 million, and Norway committed $290 million, to support the work of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI).