20 November 2009 - a good day for children

20 November is a good day to think about children. Universal Children's Day, which promotes worldwide efforts for the welfare of children, is celebrated each year on this day.

20 November is also the day on which the UN General Assembly made its first statement on children's rights in 1959. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child opened for signature on 20 November thirty years later.

UNICEF(link), the UN organisation dedicated to improving children's lives, notes that despite the immense progress that has been made (link to http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/), much remains to be done.

Every six seconds a child dies of hunger. An estimated 1 billion children lack services essential to their survival and development. Poverty still keeps children out of school and the number of deaths of children aged under five remains unacceptably high.

Let’s make 20 November 2009 a good day for children.

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