The Convention on the Rights of the Child turns 20

Pristina, 20 November 2009 – Today is the 20th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The entire world celebrates a historic moment that gave birth to the most important United Nations legal instrument for children. It took the international community a decade to come to an agreement and adopt the CRC on the 20th of November 1989. Two decades after, the treaty has become the most widely accepted human rights instrument in the world. It has inspired changes in laws to better protect children, it has become a framework for different duties that all actors bear to respond to the rights of the child, and it has set ethical and moral guidance building upon core values which are common to the human family.

In a ceremony organised by UNICEF on this occasion, Kjartan Björnsson, EC Liaison Office Chargé d'Affaires a.i. said: 'With the new EU financial instruments, children's rights have become an important political priority. Kosovo has one of the youngest populations in Europe.  More>

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