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ARTICLE · 14 SEPTEMBER 2021

One Sunny Day

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The 9/11 Commission Report starts: "Tuesday 11 September 2001 dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States." And it was just like that.

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Wendy Watson
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The 9/11 Commission Report starts: "Tuesday 11 September 2001 dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States." And it was just like that. As I stepped out of my hotel on 34th Street, things were looking good – I had arrived the day before, in time to prepare for the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS), the so-called 'Children's Summit'.

I was working for Save the Children, one of many international NGOs that were attending the UNGASS to lobby the world's governments. The Summit was due to debate progress on implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. My role was to coordinate the launch of a report into children's lives around the world; it was a devastating read of failed promises from those governments and of children not being afforded their basic rights.

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