November 9, 1999

November 9, 1999

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Host Jerome McDonnell talks with Jeffrey Winters, professor of Political Economy at Northwestern University about the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Then, As the Convention on the Rights of the Child nears its 10th Anniversary, hundreds of thousands of children around the world still suffer from abuse and desertion. In the second segment of the six part series, World for Children, BBC’s Nigel Rensch travels to Rio de Janeiro where hundreds of children are abandoned each year, and left to struggle alone on the city streets