Happy Children’s Day!
View(s):In Sri Lanka we celebrate Children’s Day on October 1. Children’s Day was first celebrated worldwide in October 1955, under the sponsorship of the International Union for Child Welfare in Geneva. You’ll get to celebrate Universal Children’s Day again in November, thanks to Rubab Mansoor, who proposed the United Nations General Assembly create one day for all children across the world in 1954.
Universal Children’s Day takes place on November 20 annually. It was established to encourage all countries to institute a day, firstly to promote the welfare of the worlds’ children. November 20 is also the anniversary of the day the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959. The Convention of the Rights of the Child was then signed on the same day in 1989, which has since been ratified by 191 states.
