Paris.- "We have made remarkable progress since then, but we must continue because much remains to be done," the UNESCO official said at the headquarters of the agency in Paris, where a commemoration ceremony took place, which French President Emmanuel Macron attended.
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According to Azoulay, greater global commitment is needed to overcome challenges such as the large number of children who receive no schooling or suffer violence and poverty, even in the wealthiest countries.
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At least one in six children in the world does not go to school, while others drop out in adolescence, she noted.
The UNESCO director-general described the Convention as a great text, which commits nations and leads them to speak, within their diversity of languages, the same language, that of the protection of children.
The historic document adopted on November 20, 1989, entered into force on September 7, 1990, and only the United States has not ratified it. (PL)
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