International Children's Day

The International Children's Day (ICD) is celebrated in numerous countries, usually (but not always) on 1st June each year.The United Nations General Assembly recommended in 1954 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.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 and is often the day chosen by countries as their own designated day to observe Universal Children's Day. State governments are responsible for passing legislation providing a day and name appropriate for their compliance with the United Nations.

Poverty is a major cause of children becoming separated from the safety and protection of their families. Separated children are often statistically 'invisible' because they are absent from data collected from households, schools, clinics and workplaces. They are living on the streets, in institutions or in forced labour. Over 50 million babies a year are never officially registered at birth.
Every child should have access to Health, Education, Equality, Protection and Love. If you want to help one of the suffering children in the World, contact the Unicef or Red Cross.

adapted from Wikipedia

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