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Despite enormous progress realized for children since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, the rights of millions of children are being violated every day

• Marking the UN Week, the UN Country Team and the Government of Serbia invited for a special brief on the refugee and migration situation in Serbia.  The Team of UN agencies reaffirmed its commitments to strongly promote and support additional humanitarian, developmental, budgetary, coordination and political support to allow the Government of Serbia to implement its Response Plan as well as the commitments of the recently adopted New York Declaration.

• Serbia today celebrates the 10th anniversary of the entry-into-force of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). The OPCAT is the premiere international legal instrument on the prevention of torture and related negative treatment.

• On the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the United Nations, Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Republic of Serbia, Ms. Irena Vojačkova-Sollorano, the UN Resident Coordinator in Serbia and Ms. Simona Miculescu, the Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UN Office in Belgrade, hosted together with the United Nations Country Team in Serbia a special reception, while pledging their joint efforts to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.