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“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”

Child rights and human rights explained

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UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. UNICEF has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families.

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UNICEF is created by resolution 57(I) of the United Nations General Assembly on 11 December 1946 to provide supplies and assistance to children after World War II. Originally known as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF starts as a temporary relief fund of the United Nations. As such, it is entitled to use the UN logo.

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Riace global village, where about 3.000 refugees reside in an almost abandoned village. Riace is a seaside village in a depopulated and economically deprived area in the south of Italy.

Domenico Lucano has been Mayor of Riace since 2004. It is his intuition that has radically changed the village.

Mr. Lucano’s idea came to him in response to two phenomena: first, the increasing number of migrants arriving on Italian shores; and second, the dramatic depopulation of his village in the past decades. By the 1990’s, only a couple of hundred inhabitants remained in Riace, and their average age could lead one to expect that the village might soon be completely abandoned. In the arrival of the migrants, Mr. Lucano saw an opportunity to rejuvenate and revive his village. 

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