About 65 world leaders and delegates from more than 150 nations this week will take part in the U.N. General Assembly Special Session on Children in New York City, the Washington Times reports. The event, which will begin Wednesday and run through Friday, was orginally scheduled to take place Sept. 18, 2001, but it was postponed following the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon (Washington Times, 5/6). While HIV/AIDS was only a "blip on the world agenda" at the 1990 childr...read more [4]
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