| Date |
Event |
| 1923 |
The drafting of the Declaration on
the Rights of the Child by the League of Nations |
| September 26th 1924 |
The adoption by the League of Nations
of the Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child |
| December 19th 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 20th 1989 |
The Convention on the Rights of the
Child was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. November 29th
is also now, officially, the International Rights of the Child Day |
| September 2nd 1990 |
The Convention becomes part of International
Law |
| April 19th 1991 |
The government of United Kingdom
became a signatory to the Convention |
| August 29th 1991 |
The government of People’s Republic
of China became a signatory to the Convention |
| December 16th 1991 |
The ratification of the Convention
by the government of United Kingdom received at the United Nations |
| March 2nd 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 |