A Review of the Most Accessed Documents on the Child Rights Resource Centre in 2025

Save the Children’s Child Rights Resource Centre is your one-stop e-library for trusted, comprehensive, and up-to-date insights on our work for children. Open to everyone, it offers thousands of quality assured resources—free of charge—all in one easy-to-access platform. It’s a go to hub for child rights programming, used across the Save the Children movement, by partners, and by the wider public committed to creating a better world for children. 

In this article, we spotlight the most viewed documents and top searches of 2025, giving you a window into what people are most curious about and the issues shaping global conversations on child rights. By the end, you’ll know whether you’re keeping pace with what’s trending—or if it’s time to join the movement and dive in! 

TOP 5 VIEWED 2025 DOCUMENTS 

From the wealth of knowledge shared in 2025, we’ve highlighted five standout publications—powerful resources that are inspiring change and shaping the future of child rights. This list is for the top 5 most viewed documents published on the Resource Centre in 2025: 

1. Born Into the Climate Crisis 2: An Unprecedented Life: Protecting Children’s Rights in A Changing Climate: 

This follow‑up report to the 2021 Born into the Climate Crisis publication provides updated insights developed with climate scientists from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. It presents new data showing that children born in 2020 face unprecedented lifetime exposure to six major climate extremes—heatwaves, crop failures, droughts, river floods, tropical cyclones, and wildfires. The report is a valuable resource for understanding how climate change affects children’s rights and informing adaptation efforts. A child‑friendly version is also available for younger audiences.

2. Save The Children Humanitarian Plan 2025: Local Action, Global Impact: 

This is an annual report published at the beginning of each year to outline Save the Children’s priorities in support of children’s rights in humanitarian contexts. It looks at the key challenges that children will face in the year ahead and highlights our planned humanitarian programme and advocacy response, as well as the financial requirements to deliver this. This is a great resource for humanitarian practitioners and partners.

3. Crossing Lines: Realities of Migrant Children at EU External Borders: 

This report, produced by Save the Children, examines the lived realities of migrant children—particularly unaccompanied and separated minors—arriving at key EU external borders, including Greece, Italy, Spain (Canary Islands), Finland, and Poland. Drawing on interviews with practitioners, civil society reports, academic literature, and participatory research with children on the move, the study exposes the alarming consequences of securitised migration policies. This research is a timely call to ensure that Europe’s approach to migration prioritises the best interests of the child in all circumstances, including at borders. 

4. Global Learning Agenda on Adolescent Contraception Access and Choice 2025: 

This Learning Agenda was coordinated by Save the Children/USAID’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the World Health Organization (WHO) Human Reproduction Programme. This Learning Agenda aims to unite youth, researchers, donors, implementers, and national governments behind a set of prioritized research questions that address key evidence gaps to most effectively advance adolescents’ choice of when and if to use contraception and support access to high quality contraceptive services. 

5. Partnering with Children to Change the World: Save the Children’s Global Strategy 2025-2027: 

Our 2025–27 Global Strategy is about tackling the root causes of child rights violations, working with children and partners, so that all children have a healthy start in life, safely go to school and learn, live free from violence, and grow up in resilient families. Our strategy highlights our plan towards our Ambition for Children 2030 and our key areas of focus.

Our top 5 2025 most viewed documents showcase what Save the Children was focusing on in 2025 and the years ahead. Each one looks at a different issue, but together they give a full picture of the key challenges children faced in 2025—like climate change, emergencies, migration, and access to health services. They also guide how we planned our work and made decisions, helping us stay aligned on what matters most for children around the world.

TOP 5 ALL-TIME FAVOURITE DOCUMENTS

Here are the standout, all‑time favourites from our Resource Centre—the most‑viewed documents since we launched the Resource Centre. These are documents published since the start of the resource centre and were top on the list of the mostly viewed in 2025: 

1. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC): 

This is the 4-page summarised children’s version of the Convention on the Rights of the Child which explains who children are, all their rights, and the responsibilities of governments. This document is great in explaining to children of all ages their rights and the responsibilities of their governments towards child rights. It’s therefore useful to all practitioners working with children. 

2. EiE Classroom/Teacher Observation Checklist: 

This checklist is used to assess whether the teacher is implementing set criteria required during teaching sessions. This is a great tool for Save the Children staff, including program managers and monitoring and evaluation teams, when conducting classroom/teacher observations.

3. The Rights and Responsibilities of Children:

This is another child friendly document, which outlines children’s rights in a creative and summarised way. Published by Save the Children, this document is easy to read (self-read) with creative illustrations done by a child. Share this widely with your children:

4. Definitions of Child Abuse and Possible Indicators of Harm: 

This brief covers the four main areas of abuse: physical, sexual, emotional and neglect. Each of these areas includes lists of possible behavioural and physical indicators known to be associated with that type of abuse. This brief is important when educating staff and the public on child abuse.

5. Stopp! Min kropp! Lek och Prat för Barn i Förskoleålder: Stop! My Body! Play and talk for preschoolers: 

This material aims to support conversations and games about the body and consent. Talking to young children about the body and boundaries helps children become aware of the value of the body and how they say or show yes and no. This document is one among many documents we have on the Resource Centre in their original languages.

These five all-time favourites and most viewed documents show that people—both inside and outside Save the Children—are looking for easy to understand, trustworthy information about children’s rights and how to keep children safe. Together, these resources give children, parents, teachers, and staff the guidance they need to understand children’s rights, support good teaching, and recognise when a child may be at risk. 

They work well as a set: some explain children’s rights in a child friendly way, others help adults create safer learning environments, and some offer practical tips for spotting and preventing harm. All of them support Save the Children’s mission to protect children and ensure their voices are heard. 

 

TOP SEARCHES

What were the top 3 searches in 2025 leading to our platform? 

1. What is child abuse – 1,147 clicks 

2. Child Abuse – 953 clicks 

3. Child Protection policy – 788 clicks 

Our users are mainly searching for information on child abuse and child protection materials with these making the top 3 searches. Our top 5 active users in 2025, came from United States, China, Singapore, United Kingdom and Sweden. The US, China and UK had the highest number of new users with the US and UK users having the most engaged sessions.  

Join the movement to promote children’s rights. Explore the Resource Centre, share these vital materials, and use them to strengthen your work, your programmes, and your influence. With growing global demand for trusted child rights information, your engagement matters more than ever. Dive into the top resources, stay informed, and help create safer, brighter futures for children everywhere. 

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