November 20th: Italy celebrates Universal Children’s Day

With Resolution 836(IX) of December 14th 1954, the United Nations General Assembly declared November 20th the Universal Children’s Day, recalling the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on November 20th 1989. With 196 State Parties, the CRC is the most ratified international human rights treaty. As stated in the preamble of the Resolution, the Universal Children’s Day represents a day “of world-wide fraternity and understanding between children and ...