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Special Session in numbers
The following table presents an overview of participation
at the Special Session and at the Children's Forum. It also
presents key data on several events that took place before
and during the Session.
Some significant results, such as the number of pledges received
by the Say Yes campaign and the number of treaties and other
legal instruments signed and/or ratified around the time of
the Session, are also included.
PARTICIPATION
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Total number of participants
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Around 7,000
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…of Children
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Children participating in the Children’s Forum and
the Special Session*
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More than 600
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Children participating in the Children’s Forum, 5-7
May 2002
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404 children between 7 and 18 years old – including
162 boys and 242 girls – from 154 countries
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Children attending the Children’s Forum as part of
official Government delegations
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264, from 142 governments
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Children attending the Children’s Forum as part of
NGO delegations
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140 from 106 NGO delegations
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Number of children formally addressing the General
Assembly during the Special Session
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2
For the first time in history children spoke at the
GA on behalf of children
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…of NGOs
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NGO participants
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1,732 (including 248 children)
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NGOs represented
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699, from 117 countries
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NGOs from developing countries
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314
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NGOs from industrialized countries
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385
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NGO speakers addressing GA Plenary and Ad Hoc Committee
of the Whole
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15
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…of Governments
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Official delegates
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3,355
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Summit-level participants**
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69
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Heads of State and/or Government
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43
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UN Member States speaking at General Assembly Plenary
debates
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187, out of 189 Member States
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First Spouses
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50
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Parliamentarians
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250, from 75 countries
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Governments participating in the five intergenerational
dialogue sessions
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44 including 7 Heads of State and/or Government plus
4 heads of UN agencies
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…of Others
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
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5
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (2001), Kim Dae-Jung
(2000)***, Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (1996)
Nelson Mandela (1993), and Rigoberta Menchú Tum (1992).
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United Nations entities represented at Director level
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10
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UNICEF ambassadors
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9
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Media coverage
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More than 1,200 journalists, including over 50 young
journalists
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Volunteers (UNICEF staff and others)
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Almost 200
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SIGNIFICANT RESULTS
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‘Say Yes for Children’ pledges presented by Nelson
Mandela to the President of the UN General Assembly,
Dr. Han Seung-Soo
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94,875,927
This set a Guinness World Record for the largest ever
international pledge campaign
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Countries taking treaty action around theSpecial Session****
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24
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Countries signing the Convention on the Rights of the
Child around the Special Session****
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1
The addition of Somalia’s signature means that all UN
Member States have now signed the Convention on the
Rights of the Child
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EVENTS/PROCESSES
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Supporting
events
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122 Total
43 – Organized by governments/United Nations/other
international organizations
79 – Organized by NGOs
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Regional
and thematic NGO caucuses
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36
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Child and
Youth Opinion Poll interviews held worldwide, in lead-up to SSC
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Almost 40,000
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Languages Children’s Forum conducted in
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3 – English, French, Spanish
During plenary sessions there was simultaneous
interpretation, and during other sessions ‘whisper’ translations
were available several other languages, including Arabic,
Bangla (Bengali), Chinese, Portuguese and Vietnamese
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* This number includes Children’s Forum
participants, children from government and NGO delegations that attended the
Special Session only and youth journalists.
** Summit level participants include Heads
of State and Government, Crown Princes, Vice-Presidents and Deputy Prime Ministers.
*** H.E. Mr. Dae-Jung participated in the gala ‘Celebration
of Leadership’ on 9 May 2002, via video feed.
**** Actions taken from 1 to 17 May 2002 on five key treaties
put up for signature and ratification as follows: the Convention
on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Optional Protocol to
the CRC on the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography, the Optional Protocol to the CRC on the involvement
of children in armed conflict, the Amendment to article 43.2
of the CRC, and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing
the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.
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