COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul

Recognition of psychological and social needs
2018. Two girls do their homework outside their tent at the Kawergosk camp for Syrian refugees, to the west of Irbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous region (Iraq) © UNICEF/UNI174576/Romenzi

The international community recognises the need to protect children
1924. Left: «The Geneva Declaration», passed at the V General Assembly of the League of Nations in 1924. Right: photograph of Eglantyne Jebb founder, in 1919, of ‘Save the Children’, in the United Kingdom © SCF/PP1423, Cadbury Research Library

The United Nations creates the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF
1946. Wrapped in blankets and sitting on a pile of her belongings, a displaced girl waits to start her journey home. It is winter 1946, Germany. Photographer not known © UNICEF/HQ46-0006

Spain signs an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children
1954. A boy receives treatment against trachoma (Spain). In 1954 in New York, Spain signed an agreement with UNICEF to attend to the needs of Spanish children © UNICEF ESPAÑA

The «Declaration of Children’s Rights» (1959)
2020. Girls at the door of their school in the village of Guidan-Alou, in the centre of Niger. In Niger, over 50% of children between seven and 16 years old do not attend school © UNICEF/UN0318027/Frank Dejongh

From the «Declaration of Children’s Rights» to the «Convention on Children’s Rights» of 1989
1989. A group of children and teenagers from the United Nations International School meet the then Secretary General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, when the Convention was passed on the 20th November 1989, in New York © UN Photo/Milton Grant

The international community recognises that children are subject to rights
2019. Assiya, 10 years old, beside a heap of metal wreckage that was part of the girls’ school at Bodyalai until a bomb exploded in the district of Kuz Kunar, Nangahar province (Afghanistan) © UNICEF/UN0309012/Kokic

UNICEF organises the ‘I World Summit in Favour of Children’
1990. The UNICEF «goodwill ambassadors», Sir Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullman, Audrey Hepburn and Julio Iglesias, at the World Summit in Favour of Children in 1990, UN Headquarters, New York © UNICEF/Barbour

The «Millennium Declaration» establishes a new global alliance
2016. A girl plays on a swing in the informal settlement of tents for Syrian refugees at Faida, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon © UNICEF/Ramzi Haidar

The Millennium Development Goals and Children’s Rights
2016. Eliza kisses her one-year-old baby, Jal Pouk, in the Mercy Hospital in Juba, Southern Sudan. UNICEF provides treatment which save the lives of millions of children like Jal Pouk every year © UNICEF-2016-Rich

The MDG, an unequal opportunity for children
2016. Desire, two years old, lives in Balaka, Malawi, and is suffering from severe malnutrition. RICH (UNICEF) Lugar © UNICEF/Rich

2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals
2012. Bharati Whagoshkar feeds her 24-day-old baby in her small house in the suburbs of Dharavi, Metropolitan Mumbai (India). To a large extent, the Indian Government draws on the Integrated Child Development Plan to combat infant malnutrition. UNICEF is cooperating with the Indian Government to increase the efficiency of the plan © UNICEF/INDA 2012-001122/Vishwanathan

The «Convention on Children’s Rights» 30 years after its approval
2017. Nachadee Lokwabong, 50 years old, shows his one-week-old son Enoch Rofich for the first time in his home in the district of Amudt de Karamoja (Uganda). «I am happy», says Nachadee looking at his newborn child and stroking his cheek © UNICEF/UN059748/Ose

The focus of Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2011. Shari is 13 years old. She collects rubbish from the tip in the poor neighbourhood of Korogocho (Kenya) to survive and help her ill mother © UNICEF/UKLA 2011-03302/Schermbrucker

Spain and 2030 Agenda in terms of compliance with Children’s Rights
2017. In spite of being one of the top 15 economies on the planet, one in three children in Spain risks. Potograph taken in Madrid © UNICEF/Carolina Sainz

COVID-19, Children’s Rights and 2030 Agenda
2020. A two-year-old girl in her father’s arms waiting for a vitamin A supplement as part of the door to door campaign ‘Nutritional Action Week 2020’ run by UNICEF in Bangladesh. This campaign, which is run by Rohingyas reaches 154,000 children between the ages of six months and five years © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

COVID-19, Derechos de la Infancia y Agenda 2030
2020. Una niña dos años en brazos de su padre esperando que le administren un suplemento de vitamina A como parte de la campaña puerta a puerta de la ‘Semana de Acción Nutricional 2020’ que desarrolla UNICEF en Bangladesh. Esta campaña desarrollada por voluntarios rohinyás llega a 154.000 niños de entre seis meses y cinco años © UNICEF/UNI360602/Lateef

Childhood, Rights and 2030 Agenda
2019. Ibrahim (left, made-up name) aged 14 plays with his brother in his refuge at Kaya, in Burkina Faso. Ibrahim and his 12 siblings share two tents set up near a state school. They were displaced from their home town, 80 km away, due to the danger in the area. The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso was one of the forgotten crises of 2019 and also the fastest-growing © UNICEF/UNI280378/Tremeau

Childhood and adolescence as essential stages of life
1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article Jean-Jacques Rousseau1762. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book ‘Emilie ou de l’education’ Geneva. The picture is from the article 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respeto a la vida natural, la libertad y las diferencias individuales' ('Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Respect for natural life, liberty and individual differences') by Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez in the Portal de la Educomunicación

Unprotected childhood
2017. Mohammed Yasin is one of the Rohingya children refugees in Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh. Like him, millions of children suffer violence and lack of protection © UNICEF/UN0119119/Brown

Recognition of biological needs
2020. Little Najib receives the droplets of the polio vaccine, Uganda. Vaccination has become one of the key tools for saving the lives of millions of boys and girls all over the world © UNI325806/Zahara Abdul