Tag: children’s rights

How is everybody doing this Sunday? I had a really awful week, the kind when you just wish it was over already. The weekend helped a little, I have to add, but tomorrow is work again… In the meantime, the heatwave that has affected all Europe this week has just reached Hungary with its record high maximums expected for the middle of next week. For the time being, I am still enjoying the hot weather, but you might ask me about it on Wednesday again. Now, let’s see some interesting posts from this week. Assembly: States ‘ignore’ nearly 11,000 European…

un-library: In 1954, the General Assembly recommended that all member states institute a Universal Children’s Day to promote the welfare of all children and advocate for understanding and solidarity between all children. 20 November marks the anniversary of the adoption of the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child and 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. Further Resources UNICEF’s annual State of the World’s Children report UNICEF’s Voices of Youth platform for young activitists United Nations CyberSchoolbus for teaching and learning Above image is credited to Sophia Paris and was retrieved from unmultimedia.org/photo

united-nations: This weekend, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined other diplomats at DiploMatch, a soccer match organized by Play31, which aimed to use the unifying power of football to bring together people who have been torn apart by war. Play31’s vision is a world in which all children are free to play, as stipulated in Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The goal of the DiploMatch was to raise enough money to finance a community tournament in Sierra Leone. Photos credit: UNDP and Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict