International Children's Day

Published June 1, 2013
Nine-year-old Bacho Tsiklauri attends a lesson at school in the village of Makarta, Georgia. Bacho is the only pupil at the primary school in Makarta, which is located in a remote mountain gorge and has about 30 residents. International Children's Day is marked by many around the world on June 1. — Reuters
Nine-year-old Bacho Tsiklauri attends a lesson at school in the village of Makarta, Georgia. Bacho is the only pupil at the primary school in Makarta, which is located in a remote mountain gorge and has about 30 residents. International Children's Day is marked by many around the world on June 1. — Reuters
Nine-year-old Bacho Tsiklauri listens to his teacher Lia Tsiklauri, 47, during a lesson at school in the village of Makarta. — Reuters
Nine-year-old Bacho Tsiklauri listens to his teacher Lia Tsiklauri, 47, during a lesson at school in the village of Makarta. — Reuters
Visually impaired children enter the waiting room of an airline before boarding a plane in the international airport of La Aurora in Guatemala City — Reuters
Visually impaired children enter the waiting room of an airline before boarding a plane in the international airport of La Aurora in Guatemala City — Reuters
Children from Boeung Kak Lake release birds during International Children's Day in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 1, 2013. — Reuters
Children from Boeung Kak Lake release birds during International Children's Day in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 1, 2013. — Reuters
Children wearing costumes wait to participate in a stage show on International Children's Day organized by the Chinese Foreign Affairs Office at Children's Palace of Dongcheng district in Beijing Saturday June 1, 2013. — AP Photo
Children wearing costumes wait to participate in a stage show on International Children's Day organized by the Chinese Foreign Affairs Office at Children's Palace of Dongcheng district in Beijing Saturday June 1, 2013. — AP Photo
North Korean children, dressed as military service members, ride tricycles behind a toy vehicle designed to look like a mobile rocket launcher during a day of games and a parade to mark the International Children's Day at Mangyongdae Amusement Park on the outskirts of Pyongyang on Saturday, June 1, 2013. — AP Photo
North Korean children, dressed as military service members, ride tricycles behind a toy vehicle designed to look like a mobile rocket launcher during a day of games and a parade to mark the International Children's Day at Mangyongdae Amusement Park on the outskirts of Pyongyang on Saturday, June 1, 2013. — AP Photo
A North Korean girl fires an arrow at a target made to look like a U.S. soldier as children play games to mark International Children's Day at Mangyongdae Amusement Park on the outskirts of Pyongyang on Saturday, June 1, 2013. — AP Photo
A North Korean girl fires an arrow at a target made to look like a U.S. soldier as children play games to mark International Children's Day at Mangyongdae Amusement Park on the outskirts of Pyongyang on Saturday, June 1, 2013. — AP Photo
Internally displaced Somali children eat breakfast at Sayyidka camp in the Howlwadag district, south of Somalia's capital Mogadishu — Reuters
Internally displaced Somali children eat breakfast at Sayyidka camp in the Howlwadag district, south of Somalia's capital Mogadishu — Reuters
Students in traditional costumes dance as they perform a Tibetan opera during a performance to celebrate the InternationalChildren's Day at a primary school in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region.— Reuters
Students in traditional costumes dance as they perform a Tibetan opera during a performance to celebrate the InternationalChildren's Day at a primary school in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region.— Reuters
Children pose for a photo at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in al-Mazraq of the northwestern Yemeni province of Hajja.— Reuters
Children pose for a photo at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in al-Mazraq of the northwestern Yemeni province of Hajja.— Reuters

Children across the globe observe International Children's Day on June 1st, 2013

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