World children's day 2025

Public observance in honor of children

Children's Day is a commemorative date celebrated annually in honour of children, whose date of observance varies by country. In 1925, International Children's Day was first proclaimed in Geneva during the World Conference on Child Welfare.

Since 1950, it is celebrated on 1 June in many countries, which follow the suggestion from Women's International Democratic Federation.^[1]World Children's Day is celebrated on 20 November to commemorate the issuance of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child by the UN General Assembly on 20 November 1959, along with the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on that date in 1989.^[2] In some countries, it is Children's Week and not Children's Day.

History

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Origins

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Children's Day began on the second Sunday of June in 1857 by Reverend Dr. Charles Leonard, pastor of the Universalist Church of the Redeemer in Chelsea, Massachusetts: Leonard held a special service dedicated to, and for the children.

Leonard named the day Rose Day

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