Each year The Caen Memorial association organises a competition to enable students to make a plea for a situation pertaining to human rights. This year a 17 year old from a Toulouse lycee beat off students from 13 other regions to win the prize.
Anne-Laure Tollec chose a subject that affects thousands of children around the world, but of which many of us are ignorant - phantom children. She chose Moussa, a boy from tribal shepherd origins in Mali, whose birth has never been registered and who therefore does not officially exist. This deprives him and many like him around the world of basic human and civil rights. Anne-Laure argued that a UN agency should be set up to help these lost children. Her prize is a trip to the UN headquarters in New York. Well done to her.
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