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World Children's Day 2020: Date, Significance, History and Quotes

World Children's Day 2020: Children are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow. They are the most promising, potent, and ...

World Children's Day 2020: Children are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow. They are the most promising, potent, and motivating population and can change the future of mankind.


Children are the most vulnerable in the population in many countries. Thus, to spread awareness about improving children's welfare and to reduce atrocities and abuses against children's World Children's day is observed every year.

Universal Children's Day is observed on November 20 every year. Countries across the world celebrate children's day on different dates. In India Children's day is observed on November 14, every year. The day marks the birth anniversary of the first Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
World Children's Day 2020: Date, Significance, History and Quotes
World Children's Day 2020

"The children of today will make the India of tomorrow. The way we bring them up will determine the future of the country," said India's first Prime Minister.

Thus, teaching the values of life, discipline and culture can make them grow as responsible citizens of tomorrow, with harmonious development of personality.

World Children's Day 2020: Costs of the pandemic:

World Children's Day offers each of us an inspiration to build a better world for children. According to un.org, "This year, the COVID-19 crisis has resulted in a child rights crisis. The costs of the pandemic for children are immediate and, if unaddressed, may last a lifetime."

"Hundreds of millions of students are currently affected by school closures due to #COVID19. On Friday's #WorldChildrensDay, @UNICEF is urging countries to ensure all children can continue to learn," the UN said on social media.

WORLD CHILDREN'S DAY 2020: QUOTES


  • "Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow. Only through right education can a better order of society be built up." - Jawaharlal Nehru
  • "A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires." - Paulo Coelho
  • "The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith." - Billy Graham
  • "The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence." - Denis Waitley
  • "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have for instance." - Franklin P. Jones
  • "Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man." - Rabindranath Tagore
  • "Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

World Children's Day 2020: History

World Children's Day was first established in 1954 as Universal Children's Day to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide and improving children's welfare.

November 20th is an important date because on the same date in 1959 the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and in 1989 the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Therefore, since 1990, World Children's Day also marks the anniversary of the date that the UN General Assembly adopted both the Declaration and the Convention on children's rights.


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