Convention

Convention
Preamble

Convention on the Rights of the Child
Some Important facts and dates

*Date*	*Event*
1923	The drafting of the Declaration on the Rights of the Child by the League of Nations
September 26^th 1924	The adoption by the League of Nations of the Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child
December 19^th 1948	United Nations General Assembly approved the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1978	The drafting of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the government of Poland
1979	United Nations set up a review committee on the draft and declared 1979 to be the International Year of the Child
November 20^th 1989	The Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. November 20^th is declared as Universal Children's Day.
September 2^nd 1990	The Convention becomes part of International Law
April 19^th 1991	The government of United Kingdom became a signatory to the Convention
August 29^th 1991	The government of People’s Republic of China became a signatory to the Convention
December 16^th 1991	The ratification of the Convention by the government of United Kingdom received at the United Nations
March 2^nd 1992	The ratification of the Convention by the People’s Republic of China received at the United Nations
September 1994	The United Kingdom extended the ratification of the Convention to Hong Kong
September 1997	So far over 190 nations of the world have signed the Convention making it the most supported Convention in human history