World's Children's Prize For The Rights of The Child - Laureates and Role Models

Laureates and Role Models

Since the launch of the program in 2000, more than 30 Prize Laureates have been awarded the World’s Children’s Prize. These role models have inspired children all over the world to demand change, and the prize money has helped improve the lives of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable children. The World’s Children’s Prize is open to all schools and humanitarian organizations. It is supported by 553 organizations and departments of education. Many of them implement the program in collaboration with over 50,000 teachers. Through the World’s Children’s Prize, hundreds of millions of people are presented with information on the World’s Children’s Prize program and accounts of rights violations facing children around the world each year.

Millions of children who have had their rights violated participate in the program Among the children who learn about their rights and democracy through the World’s Children’s Prize are millions of children whose rights have been violated. They include former child soldiers, debt slaves, street children, and children who have lost their parents to AIDS, genocide or the tsunami.

Many of these children did not know they had rights before becoming involved with the program. Our magazine, The Globe, and website are both published in several languages and read by children all over the world.

The magazine is even smuggled into dictatorships like Burma, where children learn about their rights and organise their own democratic vote in secrecy.