Universal Children's Day 2015

20 November

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It suggested to governments that the Day be observed on the date which each considers appropriate. The date of 20 November marks the day on 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 Universal Children's Day

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