20 November World Children's Rights Day Events
20 November World Children's Rights Day Events
20 November World Children's Rights Day Events
November 20 has been celebrated as "World Children's Rights Day" by the United Nations (UN) since 1989 in order to bring to the agenda the human rights violations faced by children around the world. It is celebrated as. In order to protect and improve the conditions of children struggling to survive, especially in geographies where war and poverty prevail, the United Nations General Assembly signed the "Convention on the Rights of the Child" on 20 November 1989.
Based on the fact that children have different needs and rights than adults, the UN aimed to secure children's rights with this convention and forced the party states to make changes in their domestic laws in accordance with the articles of the convention consisting of 54 articles.
The agreement, signed by a total of 193 countries, is the international document signed by the largest number of countries and entered into force in the shortest time. Established on the principles of accommodating children in safe and healthy conditions, regardless of gender, religion, language, race and social status, the convention includes internationally agreed standards and obligations that cannot be changed. A Committee on the Rights of the Child was also established by the UN to control the regulations and changes to be made by the ratifying states in their domestic laws and to publish these changes every five years.
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