Photo courtesy of UNICEF Today is World Children’s Day Children are the heartbeat of every nation, the promise of tomorrow and the carriers of dreams yet to be fulfilled. In Sri Lanka, as in the rest of the world, they represent both joy and responsibility. World Children’s Day is commemorated on November 20, the date on which the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1989, which is ratified by 196 countries and remains the most widely embraced human rights treaty in history. The UK signed it in 1991 while the US, despite…
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