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Children speak out as CRC turns 20
11 Nov 2009 10:27:00 GMT
Source: World Vision - International
World Vision Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia Regional Communications
Website: http://meero.worldvision.org/docs/CRC_Turns_20_screen_FINAL.pdf
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Children and adults worldwide are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) this month (November).

Yet across the Balkans, Caucasus, Central Asia and Middle East, the rights of children are still far from being fulfilled.

In this inspiring slideshow, 20 children share how they understand their rights and what they would like to be doing when they are 20. View the slideshow at the website link above.

[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]

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