My day, my rights – World Children's Day 2025
Highlights from around the world as children stood up and spoke out for their rights.
World Children’s Day is UNICEF’s annual day of action for children, by children, marking the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In 2025, World Children's Day provided an opportunity to amplify the voices of children. By listening to children we can fulfil their right to self-expression and better understand how their rights are present, absent or being pursued every day.
Explore highlights from UNICEF offices, partners and friends.
My day, my rights
From the moment the sun rises, children wake up to a world shaped by choices they didn't make. But every child, everywhere, also wakes with rights. Including the right to be protected, to learn, and to have their voice heard.
Are children’s rights being fulfilled?
In many places, children’s rights — to learn, to be safe, to be heard, to be healthy — are under pressure. These rights belong to every child and it’s on leaders everywhere to protect them.
UNICEF’s latest global U-Report poll is an opportunity for children and young people to share what is and isn’t working and what leaders need to do better.
Child rights under attack
Child rights are human rights. They are non-negotiable and universal. But in too many places today children’s rights are being denied and even attacked.
Kids take over
Children took over high-visibility roles in media, politics, business, sport and entertainment to shine a spotlight on issues that matter to them and to have their voices heard.
Turn up the volume for child rights
Children and world leaders
Ending child poverty
Championing solutions to end child poverty
On November 20, alongside the G20 Social Summit in South Africa, UNICEF Innocenti launched The State of the World’s Children 2025 report, Ending child poverty: Our shared imperative.
The 2025 Social Summit in South Africa provided an important opportunity to catalyze collective action to tackle child poverty.
Going blue for child rights
Adolescent girls rights
Nepal is home to more than three million adolescent girls who have the potential to lead, innovate and drive change. But many still face barriers that limit their chances.
When we invest in girls – in their education, their health and their voices – the impact is immediate. They gain the freedom to dream, the confidence to make decisions for their own lives and the opportunity to shape their communities.
My day, my right to a healthy planet
The climate crisis is a child rights crisis. Across the world, children are demanding their right to a healthy future and planet.
