Current Trends in Perinatal Mortality in Developing Countries: Nigeria as a Case Study
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On November 20, 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child after about a decade of deliberations between major stakeholders, including other United Nations agencies and Heads of Government of member states as well as Non-Governmental organisations (United Nations, 1989). In the World Summit for Children, which held a year later in 1990, world leaders further affirmed the need to promote earliest possible ratification and implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, work for optimal growth and development in childhood, devise methods to eradicate hunger and globally attack poverty among other commitments, irrespective of race, age, colour, language, religion, socio-economic class or other considerations (United Nations, 1990).
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