I want children to have the childhood that I haven't had. I want them to have the life I never had," says Parham Aslani, a 15-year-old refugee from Iran.
Parham is one of 12 children who flew to Geneva last week to tell the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child how the lives of children in the UK can be improved.
The Get Ready for Geneva project, launched last year by the Children's Rights Alliance for England, carried out an investigation into children's rights in the UK. The project, which used online surveys and focus groups to find out children's views on human rights, selected 12 representatives via a competition in which they had to submit an essay or diary entry on human rights.
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