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Universal Children's Day
20 November
The General Assembly recommended in 1954
(resolution 836(IX)) that all countries institute a Universal Children's Day, to be
observed as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children and of
activity promoting the welfare of the world's children. It suggested to governments that
the Day be observed on the date which each considers appropriate. The date of 20 November
marks the day in which the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in
1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989.
Source:
United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Library
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