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World Children's Day
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Where it comes from
In 1954 the UN General Assembly recommended that every country hold a Universal Children's Day, a day of friendship and understanding between children. The UN marks it on 20 November, the date on which the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959 and the Convention on the Rights of the…
How it's celebrated
UNICEF runs it as a day of action for children, by children. Children 'take over' roles in media, politics, business and sport for the day, and schools and landmarks light up blue for child rights; the Empire State Building, Petra and Shanghai Tower have all turned blue.
Did you know
Audrey Hepburn, then a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, was in the General Assembly hall when the Convention was adopted without a vote on 20 November 1989.
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