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Universal Children's Day (20 November 2003)
 20 November is celebrated as the international day for children. The United Nations General Assembly recommended in 1954 (resolution 836 (IX)) that all countries institute a Universal Children's Day, to be observed as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children and of activity promoting the welfare of the world's children. The date of 20 November marks the day on which the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989.
News
Council of Europe appeals for urgent action to prohibit corporal punishment in the family (19.11.2003)
Pakistan: Children let down by justice system (23.10.2003)
New study shows one billion children suffer effects of poverty (23.10.2003)
123 million children will not see a classroom this year (17.9.2003)
Sierra Leone: Peace process falters for child soldiers (23.7.2003)
International Children's Rights Day 2002: Let's put ourselves in a child's place (20.11.2002)
Indonesia: UN Special Rapporteur issues report on the right to education (7.11.2002)
UNICEF urges demobilization and reintegration of child soldiers (30.10.2002)
Education and action to stop child labor in the chocolate industry (24.10.2002)
USA: Indecent and internationally illegal, the execution of child offenders (25.9.2002)
Selected learning materials
Children's Rights Here and Now (Amnesty International-USA)
Fields of Hope: Educational Activities on Child Labor. Teacher's Guide
"How to Protect Human Rights?" Lesson Plan: Children's Rights in the UN System of Human Rights Protection (Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Poland)
Lesson plan on refugee children (UNHCR)
Raising Children With Roots, Rights & Responsibilities: Celebrating the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (USA)
Teaching for Human Rights: Pre-school and Grades 1-4
Teaching for Human Rights: Grades 5-10
Our Book of Child Rights (Pakistan)
Useful links
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
ILO Web site on Child Labour
Human Rights Watch World Report 2002-Children's Rights
Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)-Child Labour
International treaties on children's rights:
- Text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Simplified version of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
- ILO Convention (No. 138) concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment
- ILO Convention (No. 182) concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
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