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Every 20 November, the world celebrates the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by celebrating World Children's Day.

Children and young people headline global and local events on World Children’s Day, demanding urgent action on COVID-19 and climate change

A mother helps her daughter with online studies while schools are shut during COVID-19 in India.

Landmark intergenerational poll shows young people are 50% more likely than older generations to believe the world is becoming a better place – yet impatient for action on mounting crises

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, younger generation also more likely to trust scientists and embrace international cooperation, according to a UNICEF-Gallup international survey of more than 21,000 children and adults released for World Children’s Day

9-month-old Danilo laughs as his brothers shower him with kisses inside their home in Guatemala. Danilo, who has Congenital Zika Syndrome and microcephaly, gets the love, attention, care and support he needs from family, neighbours and community.

Nearly 240 million children with disabilities around the world, UNICEF’s most comprehensive statistical analysis finds

New report from UNICEF exposes the depth of deprivation experienced by the 1 in 10 children with disabilities worldwide across several indicators of well-being, including health, education and protection.

StrongerMindStrongerYou-Jeremy Lin's poster

UNICEF USA Announces NBA Champion Jeremy Lin as Newest Ambassador

[TREATED PHOTO] Belmopan, Belize. June 2021. Baby and her mother during routine check up with the pediatrician.

Flagship Report

The State of the World's Children 2021

On My Mind: Promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health.

(PDF, 10,87 MB)

[TREATED PHOTO] Belmopan, Belize. June 2021. Baby and her mother during routine check up with the pediatrician.

Flagship Report

The State of the World's Children 2021 Executive Summary

ON MY MIND - Promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health

(PDF, 4,37 MB)

Nayla, 7, a student at in primary school, asks her teacher a question during class at the local village hall in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia.

First day of school 'indefinitely postponed' for 140 million first-time students around the world – UNICEF

At least eight million of these young learners have been waiting for over a year.

A girl protects herself from the heavy rains by wearing a raincoat as she returns home from a shelter after the passage of Hurricane Iota in Nicaragua, in Bilwi, on November 16, 2020.

One billion children at ‘extremely high risk’ of the impacts of the climate crisis - UNICEF

Children in the Central African Republic, Chad, and Nigeria are among the most at risk of climate change, according to UNICEF’s first child-focused climate risk index

A girl protects herself from the heavy rains by wearing a raincoat as she returns home from a shelter after the passage of Hurricane Iota in Nicaragua, in Bilwi, on November 16, 2020.

The Climate Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis

Introducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index

(PDF, 11,91 MB) (PDF, 4,82 MB)

Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the occasion of World Breastfeeding Week