Advocate for Children’s Rights 

2024 Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child

A Century of Children’s Rights is worth a celebration! Since the 1924 Geneva Declaration, substantial progress has been made with regard to the well-being and protection of children, notably in the health and education sectors. Yet, it’s profoundly troubling that in 2024, these advances are eclipsed by the violence affecting children — a child dies every five minutes according to United Nations statistics, — and by emerging challenges such as digitization and the climate crisis.

It is high time to update the “Geneva Declaration” and mobilize collective consciousness around a renewed commitment to children’s rights: the 2024 Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child.

 

2024 Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child

Already Committed

« Je crois que nous devrions revendiquer certains droits pour les enfants et œuvrer pour leur reconnaissance universelle »

EGLANTYNE JEBB

2024 Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child

Stand up for Children's Rights!

Every signature counts, yours more than any other.
If you do not sign the Declaration, it is as if you have chosen not to make your voice heard.

Explore the list
of signatories

Dignitaries

  • Virginia Gamba - Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
  • Ton Liefaard - Professor, UNICEF Chair in Children's Rights, Leiden University
  • Renate Winter - Former Chair, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
  • Jo Becker - Children's Rights Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch
  • Ann Skelton - Chair, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
  • Yanghee Lee - Former Chair, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
  • Amihan V. Abueva - Regional Executive Director, Child Rights Coalition Asia

Prominent endorsers

  • Marta Gil Gonzalez - Deputy Head of Programme Access to Justice for Children, Terre des hommes - Lausanne Fondation
  • Anne Mitaru - International Director - Advocacy, Brand and Communications, SOS Children's Villages International
  • Jaejun Park - Policy advisor to the Minister of Health and welfare of the Republic of Korea, Ministry of Health and Welfare of the Republic of Korea
  • Erinda Ballanca - Ombudswoman, People's Advocate of Albania
  • Juliet Harris - Director, Together (Scottish Alliance for Children's Rights)
  • Hans Kumar Sharma - Professor of Law, ICFAI University, Jaipur, India
  • Bharti Ali - Child Rights Defender

Organizations

  • Bullyid Indonesia
  • Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights
  • Iranian Association of Women’s Studies
  • Ministerio Público Tutelar City of Buenos Aires
  • ENOC (European Network of Ombudspersons for Children)
  • Ombudsman fir Kanner a Jugendlecher
  • Hub na nÓg
  • European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP)
  • Africa Unite
  • Children’s Commissioner for England

All signatories

  • Anny Nathaly Roa Pabón - Educadora popular y profesional de apoyo en incidencia, Fundación CECUCOL-centro cultural comunitario las colinas
  • Khadija Ali - Parent, Welfare of children youth Kenya
  • John Tobin - Professor and Francine V McNiff Chair in International Human Rights Law, Melbourne Law School
  • Shiran Reichenberg - Dr. and Adv., Executive Director of the Clinical Legal Education Center and Clinical teacher in the Youth at-risk Legal clinic, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
  • Letícia Carvalho Silva - Alana Institute
  • Youngkey Hwang - Executive Chairman, ChildFund Korea
  • Ema Meçaj - Youth activist & advocate for children rights

Enfants

  • Aldis, 15 years, Iceland
  • Alex, 17 years, Armenia
  • Alla, 17 years, Armenia
  • Alvin, 11 years, Kenya
  • Anna, 17 years, Armenia
  • Annette, 13 years, Kenya
  • Arina, 17 years, Armenia
  • Arpi, 17 years, Armenia
  • Bakhita, 12 years, Kenya
  • Ben Berisha, 7 years, Kosovo
  • Benjamin, 12 years, Kenya
  • Bifon, 12 years, Kenya
  • Blessing, 12 years, Kenya
  • Bobana, 17 years, Montenegro
  • Brilliant, 12 years, Kenya
  • Bruno, 15 years, Switzerland
  • Cecilia, 14 years, Switzerland
  • Celestine, 13 years, Kenya
  • Charline, 16 years, Switzerland
  • Cicilia, 15 years, Kenya
  • Clarice, 12 years, Kenya

From a Visionary’s Inspiration to Global Action

Celebrating 100 Years of the Children's Rights Declaration

The spirit of Geneva, imbued with values of humanism and social justice, continues to inspire today, urging us all to celebrate a century of children’s rights.

« Il n’y a clairement aucune impossibilité intrinsèque à sauver les enfants du monde.
Ce n’est impossible que si nous le décidons, par notre refus de le tenter. »

EGLANTYNE JEBB

2024 Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child

Stand up for Children's Rights!

Every signature counts, yours more than any other.
If you do not sign the Declaration, it is as if you have chosen not to make your voice heard.

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