Ann M. Veneman, executive director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), addresses the ceremony marking the Universal Children's Day and the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child at the UN headquarters in New York Nov. 20, 2009. The UN General Assembly on Nov. 20. 1989 adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child for signature. It became the first legally binding international convention to affirm human rights for all children. [Shen Hong/Xinhua] |
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