Universal Children's Day - November 20

November 20, 2012: Universal Children’s Day 2012 with its theme ‘Treasure Our Children’ is celebrated on Tuesday. It was established by the United Nations in 1954 to encourage understanding between children and promote children's welfare around the world. It is held on 20 November, the same day the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959 and signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.
On the occasion of Universal Children’s Day 2012, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has launched a new initiative called Education First. The Initiative aims to raise the political profile of education, strengthen the global movement to achieve quality education and generate additional and sufficient funding through sustained advocacy efforts. Achieving gains in education will have an impact on all the Millennium Development Goals, from lower child and maternal mortality, to better health, higher income and more environmentally-friendly societies.

The children's day all over world celebrated on 20 November and regionally some places celebrated on 20 April and in India on 14 November.