Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ "Save the Children" is celebrating on November 14 the 20th anniversary of "Save the Children Mongolia" program and the 25th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The program manifests the highlights of its twenty years of progressive and enduring commitments for changing the lives of children.

The marking of this anniversary will attract 250 representatives of state and international organizations, diplomatic missions and civil society. Mongolia joined the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990. The Convention was enacted on November 20 of 1989 and has been serving as pillar document declaring all rights of children to society, politics, economy and culture. The parties to this convention should observe duties to reflect the principles of the document to their national legislations, policies and activities.

Save the Children, established in 1919, is the world’s first independent organization on Children’s Rights, actions" spheres of which are defined in the UN Convention. Save the Children Mongolia started its activities in 1994 and has been working in three main lines--child protection, governance of children’s rights and education. The organization supports state and community organizations for protecting children from any forms of violence and coercion, aims to facilitate mechanisms of comprehensive involvement of children in development and implementation of local policies, and works towards ensuring children’s access to qualified pre-school and general education without discrimination of age, sex, nationality and developmental states through cooperating with parents and the public. Bringing new achievements in the global vision towards children and making progressive changes to children’s lives is the main objective of Save the Children. The organization will present today its implementation in Mongolia of such objective.

Key speeches will be delivered at the celebration by the representative of the Government of Mongolia, Senior Commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission J.Byambadorj, chairman of the National Authority for Children I.Narantuya, secretary-general of the Red Cross Mongolia N.Bolormaa, executive director of Save the Children Japan Kunio Senta and the director of the Mongolia Program Mitsuaki Toyoda.