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KidsRights, founded in 2003, is an international nongovernmental organisation that promotes the wellbeing of vulnerable children across the world and advocates for the realisation of their rights. KidsRights strives for a world where all children have access to their rights and are empowered to realise 
the great potential they carry within them. KidsRights sees children as ‘changemakers’ who have the power to move the world and facilitates them in voicing their opinions and in taking action to bring about change. KidsRights supports children by commanding global attention for the realisation of children’s rights and acting as a catalyst to ignite change, together with children and youth. This advocacy is 
supported with research and action. As a matter of fact, KidsRights is the founder of the prestigious International Children's Peace Prize and the organisation behind the annual KidsRights Index. You can read more about KidsRights here. 

Although KidsRights is an international NGO, working with young people and projects all over the world, the KidsRights’ office is in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  
 

KidsRights has three core focus: advocacy, research, and action.  
 
Advocacy: KidsRights do advocacy in order to raise awareness about children’s rights, and ensure children’s rights are put on the agenda of policy makers worldwide. Together with children, we speak out to world leaders, influence policy, and engage a worldwide audience to act for positive change. One of the main activity is the International Children’s Peace Prize (ICPP) is awarded annually to a child who fights courageously for children’s rights. You can read more about the Advocacy Program here.  
 
Research: KidsRights conducts research to provide information on children’s rights. Our research provides a scientific background to our programs to improve international children’s rights. Every year we publish the KidsRights Index and a KidsRights Report. You can read more about the Research Program here.  
 
Action: KidsRights reaches and unites youth all over the world even in the most remote areas. Through quartely preferenda youth gives their views and ideas on the most pressing issues of this time. With this input, we enable them and they inspire each other to come with community based action plans. To directly realize child participation and children’s rights, KidsRights supports the grassroots projects and actions of young changemakers. KidsRights also prove them with toolkits and blended training for them to become active actors of change. You can read more about the Action Program here. 
 

Please feel free to contact us, if you have a question or a remark, or if you would like to donate. You can contact us by phone (+31 20 225 82 25), email (info@kidsrights.org) or mail. Our Post address is: KidsRights Foundation, Postbus 59555, 1040 LB Amsterdam.

The State of Youth aims to empower the youth community (12-24 years) by building a non-political, non-religious digital “state” that transcends borders. On this unique for youth-by-youth platform, founded by KidsRights and connected by Facebook, State of Youth focuses its attention, voice and vision on the key UN Sustainable Development Goals (“issues”). You can read more about the State of Youth here.

The State of Youth is a digital “state” that transcends borders. This way, children from all over the world participate, even those in remote areas.

The State of Youth creates awareness on the Sustainable Development Goals, calls for action on important matters and updates our community about changemakers and their projects. To create a sustainable youth movement there has to be a combination of online and offline action. The Chapters program aims at mobilizing children on the ground in their local communities to take matters into their own hands. You can read more about the State of Youth activities here.

KidsRights is the parent organization behind the State of Youth.

Please feel free to contact us, if you have a question or a remark via email at info@stateofyouthkids.org.

Children are changemakers. KidsRights works with children to create a world in which their rights are guaranteed, and they are enabled to realize their great potential. Together, we contribute to sustainable improvement of children’s rights worldwide. With your donation we help young, local changemakers in developing and executing their own changemaking projects and further upscale the impact of their activities. 
 

The donation supports all activities carried out by KidsRights and the State of Youth. Gifts over $10,000 can be allocated to earmarked projects upon request, for example to a specific country or to a specific child right. Please do contact us via info@kidsrights.org to learn about the different options.

You can donate online. Stay involved as a monthly donor or make a one-off contribution. You can easily arrange your donation by clicking here. 

Donation Contact Information: 
CC Amsterdam: 34192528 
Account number: Giro 8986 (Amsterdam) 
IBAN: NL30INGB0000008986 
BIC: INGBNL2A 

ANBI/RSIN: 8128.22.146

If you have any questions or issues with a donation, please contact us by phone (+31 20 225 82 25) or email (info@kidsrights.org).  
 

This edutainment platform is for kids from 6 to 12 years-old who have the interest and courage to learn how to positively change the world. The free learning portal provides them with age-tailored videos about some important issues they face as young human beings such as mental health, greenhouse gases, sexism, and so much more! They can consolidate their learning by completing diverse activities like flip and match and scrambled words, and by accomplishing challenges. Those challenges are opportunities for them to make a real-life difference in the world!

This website can be used by children from all over the world! Children from all around the world reunite on this platform to join forces in making positive change. The website is designed for children from 6-12 years old. Children older than 12-years-old can join the State of Youth movement by clicking here!

To support and empower their children to reunite with other kids on this platform to join forces in making positive change. The platform is an experience that helps all changemakers in the making to grow their own potential as future actors of change.

Yes. The same email address can be used multiple times. It means that, under the same email address, multiple children can be signed up as long as they have different nicknames/usernames.

Children from all over the world can sign-up on this platform.

For now, there are 7 main themes covered on this platform:  

Children’s rights 
Sustainable Development Goals 
Education 
Environment 
Health 
Diversity and inclusion 
Violence 
From these themes, age-tailored modules are developed into 3 levels.  

Soon, new themes and modules will be added. Stay tuned!  

Please click here to read about our terms and conditions.

If you have any issues or questions, please contact us by email at info@stateofyouthkids.org.

No, they cannot. There is no way for users to communicate amongst themselves.

H&M and KidsRights have a common vision to connect and enable children to drive real change. In that vein, we decided to join forces and collaborate to follow up on the H&M’s Role Models Campaign. H&M wants to support, improve, and contribute to a better future for children and parents alike. They believe that the world needs to embrace the optimistic, collaborative, free-thinking spirit of children. Thus, H&M decided to financially support the creation of this platform.

Every child has rights, and all children have the same rights. These rights are listed in the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Every country in the world, except the United States of America, ratified this convention. The CRC lists all the rights of children such as the right to education, the right to not be discriminated against, and the right to freedom of expression.

Children need to have special rights because they can sometimes be more vulnerable than adults. Children have limited political or social power and are financially dependent on adults. They also cannot protect themselves and are more vulnerable to maltreatment. In addition, actions or inactions of government and adults often impact them the most. Therefore, it is important to have special rules that apply to children in order to create a world in which they can be healthy, learn, play and live up to their talents in all safety. 
 

The Sustainable Development Goals, also known as SDGs, were adopted by all the United Nations Member States in September 2015. In total, there are 17 Sustainable Development Goals. They are an urgent call for action by all countries in a global partnership by 2030.

When a child signs-up for State of Youth Kids, we process the following types of personal data: username (not the real name), age, country, email address their grown-up and other content (e.g., personal data when a picture of an accomplished challenge is uploaded). Read more about our privacy policy. 

We collect and use the data of the Members of State of Youth Kids to process their membership or to give information about our work and (the initiatives in connection with) KidsRights and the State of Youth. It is possible to not receive our general information newsletters by opt-out at any time via a link in the email. Read more about our privacy policy here. 
 

We retain personal data no longer than is necessary for the purpose for which we have collected the personal data, or in correspondence with an applicable statutory retention term. At all times, it is possible to request the removal of personal data. Read more about our privacy policy here.

KidsRights does not sell personal data to third parties. The personal data collected will only be made available to third parties if the consent is provided, if this is necessary for the performance of the agreement with the user, or if we are legally obliged to do so. Read more about our privacy policy here.