"On April 23, 1999, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights passed a resolution deploring the "continuing violations of the rights of children, in particular through the lack of conformity of the existing legal framework with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, through conscription of children into forced labor programs, through their military and sexual exploitation and through discrimination against children belonging to ethnic and religious minority groups." There is little reason to believe that the situation has changed since then. According to UNICEF, out of the 1.3 million children born in Myanmar every year, 92,500 die before their first birthday and 1:3 children under 5 are malnourished and almost half of all children get no education. While national laws to protect children are in place, little is done to enforce them, and exploitative and dangerous forms of child labor had been widely reported, including work on infrastructure development projects, in military support operations, as child soldiers, and in the sex industry. The military government continues to prioritize strengthening the military over improving the education system and there are dramatic differences between the quality of education received by civilian children and the children of the military..."