Children’s Week is a national celebration of children’s rights, talents and citizenship held on the fourth Wednesday of October in Australia to coincide with Universal Children’s Day. Each year the theme of Children’s Week highlights a particular Children’s Right.

The theme for 2022 is based on Article ?27: You have the right to food, clothing, a safe place to live and to have your basic needs met. You should not be disadvantaged so that you can’t do many of the things other kids can do.

More information about resources and activities relating to Children’s Week 2022 will be added to this page closer to the date.

To find out more about the issues behind this year’s theme, and the impacts of not meeting our Article 27 obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, see:

• Factsheet on Child & Family Poverty in Australia (Source: Anti-Poverty Week)
• ABC RN Big Ideas, Alleviating Child Poverty
• Video from Dr Sharon Bessell at the Crawford School of Policy, ANU.

UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

ARTICLE 12

ARTICLE 15

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Children and young people learn and grow when they can choose their own friends, set up or join groups, come together to have their say, and have adults who help them to connect safely.

We’ve created the Children’s Rights Activity to to invite children and young people to tell us about ways they connect with others, and why this is important to them . Download the Children’s Rights Activity .