<Tr> <Th> Date </Th> <Td> September 29--30, 1990 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> UNICEF official site </Td> </Tr> <P> The United Nations World Summit for Children was held in the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on 29--30 September 1990 . The summit had the then - largest - ever gathering of heads of state and government to commit to a set of goals to improve the well - being of children worldwide by the year 2000 . It was the first time a UN conference had set a broad agenda for a wide range of goals in health, education, nutrition and human rights . </P> <P> The main result of the World Summit was the joint signing of a World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children and a Plan of Action comprising a detailed set of child - related human development goals for the year 2000 . The World Summit set the stage for a decade of high level commitment on issues concerning children around the world and it set the stage for a series of UN conferences throughout the 1990s on population, environment, food, human rights, social development and women's rights . </P>

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