DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD (No. 2)

Motion Text

That this House commemorates 16 June 2009 as the Day of the African Child; notes with concern that across the globe, 9.2 million children die before the age of five each year; supports the Save the Children global child survival campaign which aims to ensure that the global community achieves Millennium Development Goal 4; and calls on the G8 leaders assembling in Italy to declare that no low-income country in Africa or elsewhere with a credible plan to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality should fail to achieve these objectives for a lack of donor resources.