Andrée Ruffo has dedicated her life to the world’s children. She has trained in the arts, education (including adult education) and the law, in which field she has both practised and served on the bench. The founder of the International Bureau for Children’s Rights (IBCR) and a sponsor of Magicians without Borders has advocated over the past three decades on behalf of children in need of protection. A much-sought-out international speaker, she has also written and published nine books and over fifty specialized articles, and contributed to a significant number of other works. Andrée Ruffo, a poet and a painter, continues to speak with courage and integrity of the indifference and lack of responsibility demonstrated by adults who claim for themselves the right to promise a better world to children, who unceasingly experience betrayal at their hands.