The United Nations Children’s Fund is the UN agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. UNICEF works in partnership with a broad coalition of UN agencies, governments, NGOs, and local grassroots organisations “to help build a world where the rights of every child are realised”. UNICEF’s work is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

UNICEF’s educational programmes are dedicated to making sure that all children can enjoy their right to a quality education. It runs a number of programmes specifically designed to further education in children’s rights (and human rights) internationally, regionally and at national level.

Voices of Youth is a child-friendly UNICEF website, providing information about questions related to children’s life at a global level, and interactive games to promote children’s rights. The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre develops and produces research on the situation of children internationally, in the belief that awareness and understanding of children’s rights improves children’s situation everywhere in the world.

UNICEF has developed a Child Rights’ Education toolkit – ‘Rooting Child Rights in Early Childhood Education, Primary and Secondary Schools⁴’ – based on the same principles of human rights education applied to Children’s Rights.

⁴ The toolkit is available here (anglais uniquement)