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Because of the digital divide, an internet game by its very nature will probably be played by children already enjoying the basic human rights of development, survival, and protection. How then, can those who have lived with their human rights validated, even begin to understand what life would be like without those basic necessities? How do you understand the absence of something you've always known?

Our methodology is to approach the situation in a way which will provide information, increase awareness, encourage empathy, and cultivate compassionate action. The match has been design so the rights are illustrated using the same child in different circumstances. Each set shows one child living with the benefit of the right and the same child living in the absence of the right. Care has been taken so the pictures can illustrate the quality of life dissimilarities without being so graphic as to traumatize a young viewer.

Human rights should not be conditional. When we see every child as my friend, my child, or my grandchild, it is the moment we are prompted to act and guarantee unrestricted rights to the whole of humanity.

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