November 20, 2015

Sr. Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of the Australian-based Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, greets children in November 2010 in the Makpandu refugee camp in Southern Sudan. She came to Southern Sudan as a member of Solidarity with Southern Sudan, an international network of dozens of religious orders and other organizations. (CNS photo / Paul Jeffrey)

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."

- Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1913

Today is Universal Children's Day, created by the United Nations in 1954:

The Convention, which is the most widely ratified international human rights treaty, sets out a number of children’s rights including the right to life, to health, to education and to play, as well as the right to family life, to be protected from violence, to not be discriminated, and to have their views heard.

On the basis of the Convention and joint effort by all the countries and regions, let us promote and celebrate children’s right on the Universal Children's Day, and continuously build up a living-friendly environment for children in the world through dialogues and actions.

 

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