World Children’s Day, also known as Universal Children’s Day, takes place on November 20 th. This was the date in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has paved the way forward when it was adopted in 1948, inspiring more than 80 ...

Human rights are a set of rules that support how all people can be treated equally and with respect. Everyone, everywhere in the world is entitled to human rights. We all have a responsibility to ...

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as a human being below the age of 18 years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.