Jean Silvestro

An Artist Who Transforms Rock and Metal into Resistance.

A former executive and world traveler, he gave it all up to use music as a call to action. With sharp lyrics and heavy riffs, its purpose is clear: to upset world leaders and large corporations, demanding that children's rights be an absolute priority.

"Art Should Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable"

Human rights are universal, that is, all 8.1 billion human beings living on Earth were born with these rights, and no one can take them away from them.

195 Countries, 195 Songs and 1 Message

Protect the Children!

If One Child Suffers, We All Fail

Human rights are everything a human being should have or be able to do to survive, thrive, and reach their full potential. All rights are equally important and are connected to each other.

Children and adolescents have all human rights, not because they are "the future",but because they are human beings. Today.

Convention on the Rights of the Child

In 1989, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world's children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – an international agreement on childhood.

It became the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history and helped transform the lives of children around the world.

But still, not every child gets to enjoy a full childhood. Many childhoods are interrupted.

It is up to our generation to demand that government, business and community leaders follow through on their commitments and take action for children’s rights now, once and for all. They must commit to ensuring that every child has all their rights.

For every child, every right!

SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)

Child welfare

UNICEF’s commitment to data for children is guided by the fact that the SDGs impact every aspect of a child’s life. The work is structured around 5 overarching areas of well-being for every child, which are based on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

This human rights-based approach pursues a vision of realizing the rights of all children, especially the most disadvantaged, and responds to the call to “leave no child behind” so that the rights of all children, everywhere, are fulfilled.

SDG indicators related to children

The 2030 Agenda includes 17 Global Goals addressing the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. Attached to the Goals are 169 concrete targets measured by 232 specific indicators.

To map and monitor how ambitious and realistic countries’ targets are, UNICEF has created quantifiable country-level benchmarks for child-related indicators for which data are available to measure and monitor child rights on a common scale.

A country’s performance can be averaged across the 45 child-related SDG indicators, grouping results into five areas of child well-being to provide an overall assessment of how children are doing. Countries are assessed using global and national targets. The analysis provides valuable insights into both historical progress—recognizing the results delivered by countries in the recent past—and how much additional effort may be needed to achieve the child-related SDG targets. This approach provides a framework for assessing ambition as well as the scale of action needed to achieve it.

“Our future depends on your decisions today... Let us build a world where prosperity is shared equitably and where every individual can thrive.”