A panel discussion on "The role of Parliament in fulfilling the Convention of the Rights of the Child" was held on Tuesday, 30 March. Ms Shope- Sithole and Ms M Wenger attended the meeting. The panelists were Ms Mart Santos Pais, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on violence against children, Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn, former Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Secretary- General on the sale of children, child prostitution and pornography, Dr Syada Greiss, Member of Parliament for Egypt and Ms Nanu Adhikari, Youth Representative from Nepal. The moderator for the panel was Dr. Pusadee Tamthai, Member of Parliament, Thailand. The panel discussion marked the twentieth anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The convention was adopted by the United Nations in 1989 and came into force in 1990. The convention was the most comprehensive legal instrument for the protection of the rights of the child and was ratified more quickly and widely than any other human rights instrument. The panel discussed the convention's impact on the lives of children in the 20 years since its adoption and the critical role parliaments and their members can play through their law-making, budgeting enforcement and representative roles in order to ensure the full implementation of the convention.