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20th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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United Nations, New York, 17 November 2009 - UNICEF is launching a special edition of the State of the World's Children to mark the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This year UNICEF's flagship report will focus on the impact the Convention has had on the lives of millions of children and challenges moving forward. 
The Convention is the first legally binding international convention to affirm human rights for all children.  Since 1989, the Convention has achieved near-universal acceptance, having now been ratified by 193 parties. 
UNICEFs Executive Director, Ann Veneman, will launch the report here at its Headquarters in New York, one day before the anniversary, on Thursday at 9:30 a.m. UNICEF Ambassador and actress Lucy Liu and Grace Akallo, a former child soldier, will also be present. 
And on Friday, 20 November, a commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Convention will be held in the Trusteeship Council from 10 a.m. to noon. 
Also to mark the twentieth anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is teaming up with a non-governmental organization to launch a project, in which young Palestine refugee graduates across the Middle East will create the regions first-ever online video yearbook. 
The project will bring together online a community divided and scattered by decades of statelessness and exile, UNRWA says. 
Hundreds of flip cams have already been distributed to tens of thousands of students in UNRWA schools in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. On Thursday, the students will be recording 30-second messages for the yearbook. 

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