Special Event on World Children's Day 2017

High-profile supporters including:

António Guterres, United Nations Secretary General

Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director

Isabela Moner, 16-year-old star of Transformers: The Last Knight and Nickelodeon

Chloe x Halle, singers, songwriters and musicians

Dafne Keen, 12-year-old star of Logan

Zari, star of the local Afghan version of Sesame Street, and Sherrie Westin, Executive Vice President of Global Impact, Sesame Workshop

Jaden Michael, 14-year-old African-American star of Wonderstruck and activist

Basel Al Rashdan and Nanse Mohand Ghanan, 12 and 11-year-old Syrian refugee children living in Canada and USA, respectively

Emmanuel Elisha Ford, 16-year-old Guyanese-American disabilities activist
Fatoumata Cisse, 13-year-old NYC Junior Ambassador and climate activist

Lathitha Beyile, 13-year-old South African activist.

Despite tremendous progress over the past decades, according to the latest data: 385 million children live in extreme poverty; 264 million children and youth are out of school; 5.6 million children under the age of five died last year from preventable causes. On November 20 – the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child – children around the world will raise their voices in solidarity with the world’s most disadvantaged and vulnerable children.