International Children's Day / Dia Mundial da Criança

International Children's Day flag

The International Children's Day (ICD) is celebrated in numerous countries, usually (but not always) on June 1 each year.

The origin of the International Children's Day reaches 1925 year. Two important events took place on June 1st in 1925 - the World Conference for the Wellbeing of Children in Geneva; in the same time the Chinese consul-general in San Francisco gathered a number of Chinese orphans to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. After the conference, governments around the world designated a day as Children's Day to draw attention to children's issues. Many countries chose June 1.

Since December 14, 1954, United Nations and UNESCO observes 20 November as the Universal Children's Day "to be observed as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children. It recommended that the Day was to be observed also as a day of activity devoted to promoting the ideals and objectives of the Charter and the welfare of the children of the world."

Portugal, China, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Russia, Belarus are countries where the Children's Day is celebrated on June 1.