Julie Bishop Quotes

No child should be born to work at the cost of his childhood and freedom..

No civilized society ought to fear for the safety of its children.

If there is any matter upon which civilized countries have agreed ... it is the evil of premature and excessive child labor.

Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold.

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.

I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.

What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?

As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a crime against humanity. It's abuse. It's absolutely criminal and we have to stop it.

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world.

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

One missing child is one too many.

The exploitation of children is both easy and profitable.

I didn't plan that there'd be this awful situation in which our European governments, just to start the story off, breaking the Geneva conventions on the protection on the human rights of refugees.

We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.