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Universal Children's Day (20 November 2007)
 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
Slovakia: Romani children denied equal education free from discrimination(15.11.07)
Burma: Children bought and sold by army recruiters(31.10.07)
UNICEF calls for increased efforts to prevent trafficking of children(18.06.07)
Despite progress, girls subjected to violence and discrimination(6.03.07)
Sudan: UN envoy on children in conflict to visit Darfur to address violations(26.01.07)
Commissioner for Human Rights on Universal Children's Day(20.11.06)
Universal Children's Day - Stop violence against children in the workplace!(20.11.06)
Papua New Guinea: Continuing police brutality against children(30.10.06)
UN Secretary-General's study urges action to stop violence against children(12.10.06)
Children pay the price for lack of safe water and sanitation(29.09.06)
Tracking progress on child survival(19.09.06)
Prevention efforts too little, too late; prosecution of traffickers not sole solution(1.09.06)
Children deprived of right to protect themselves against HIV(1.09.06)
Vietnamese and Chinese children share views and concerns on cross border trafficking(29.08.06)
Some of the biggest victims of domestic violence are the smallest(1.08.06)
Selected learning materials
Study
Guide on the Human Rights of Children and Youth (by HREA)
Conversation
about child labour and the right to education with the UN Special Rapporteur
on the Right to Education (15 June 2005)
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
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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