The International Children’s Peace Prize

Young changemakers are moving the world

What happens when a child decides not to stay quiet? Then an idea can grow into a global movement.

The International Children’s Peace Prize gives a stage to young changemakers who are standing up for children’s rights. Children and youth who show with courage, creativity and perseverance that age is no limit to change the world for the better.

For more than twenty years, KidsRights has been amplifying their voices. Because when the world listens to young people, change moves.

The world’s most important youth prize

The International Children’s Peace Prize exemplifies KidsRights’ belief that the children who make a difference in the world should be recognized, awarded and motivated in their incredible effort to improve children’s rights. For the past 20 years, the International Children’s Peace Prize has provided a global platform to the winner to amplify their message and exponentially scale their impact. The winner’s remarkable story and message reaches millions of people every year and has an enormous impact on advancing the rights of children. The winners show us that a child really can move the world, as the International Children’s Peace Prize statuette, the ‘Nkosi’, expresses.

KidsRights launched the International Children’s Peace Prize in 2005 in the capital of Rome during the Wold Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev. Since then, the International Children’s Peace Prize has been awarded annually by a Nobel Peace Laureate. Over the years the International Children’s Peace Prize, grew in stature and is now acknoledged as world’s most important youth award.