World Children’s Day 2025
World Children’s Day is an important day to remember and acknowledge.
Each of us, regardless of age, want young people to live safely with the freedom to be themselves regardless of their race, religion, culture and abilities.

Just because you are young doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be taken seriously, respected and listened to!
The theme for World Children’s Day this year is:

my day my rights

Do you know there is a Convention on the Rights of the Child and that Australia has ratified it?

Is there a copy of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the walls in your school, libraries, community centres, hospitals, sporting clubs….?

To understand what young lives are like and how their rights are present, missing, or pursued every day, it is so important to listen to children and take what they have to say seriously.

World Children’s Day is UNICEF’s global day of action for children, by children, marking the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Around the world, children are standing up and talking about their lives, their hopes, and their rights.

From the moment the sun rises, children wake up to a world shaped by choices they didn't make. But all children, everywhere, also wake up with rights every day, Including the right to be protected, to learn, and to have their voices heard.

The world has changed much since the original Convention on the Rights of the Child was declared, and while still relevant and ratified, the 2024 Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child now accompanies the original Convention addressing important matters of our ever-changing world. More information about this is in the November News item.

In the section on Children’s Rights you will see that there are many different posters, aiming to make clear that all children are equal. Respecting differences, the language, presentation, ages, abilities and cultures of young people looking at them,

For more information about these rights go to Children’s Rights page.