As artificial intelligence reshapes platforms at extraordinary speed, are children’s rights keeping pace with the rapid shifts in their own digital world?

At APFSD 2026, children and regional leaders unite to close the 88% SDG progress gap. Explore how child-centred innovation and direct negotiation are shaping a resilient future for communities across the Asia-Pacific.

From Participation to Partnership: At APFSD 2026, child leaders from World VIsion programmes in 13 countries are moving beyond symbolic roles, inviting regional leaders into a shared co-design process and proposing "Innovation Labs" to bridge the gap between policy and the lived realities of their communities.

• From Participation to Partnership: Child leaders from 13 countries at APFSD 2026 are moving beyond symbolic roles, inviting regional leaders into a shared co-design process and proposing "Innovation Labs" to bridge the gap between policy and the lived realities of their communities.

Fatim et toute sa famille ont fui les violences armées à Torou dans le cercle de Bankass. Installée à Koro, avec ses six enfants dont 4 garçons et deux filles, doit s’adapter au rythme de la ville. A Koro, elle pile le mil, fait la lessive, vend du gravier pour subvenir aux besoins de sa famille. Son mari qui a 65 souffre d’hypertension et est dans une autre ville pour ses soins médicaux. Son premier garçon est actuellement sur un site d’orpaillage artisanal.

Five key risks likely to shape children’s wellbeing in 2026 and the urgency and bold action needed to change the current trajectory.

Haiti’s crisis has entered a new and dangerous phase. Child vulnerability is accelerating faster than traditional humanitarian responses can adapt.

Juma Ignatius, Senior Policy Advisor, Climate Action and Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster Management, brings our attention to the recent Mozambique floods that are often framed as natural disasters, but in reality, it is a story of global inequality, climate inaction and decades of neglect paid for by children who did nothing to cause the crisis. As emergency aid is repeated and preparedness is ignored, based on the negotiations within the UNFCCC spaces, Juma argues that without a shift to Disaster Risk Reduction, Anticipatory Action and climate-resilient development, disasters will continue to steal childhoods.

World Vision Ghana joined the Ghana Health Service and partners at Social Welfare Park to mark World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Day 2026, reaffirming national commitment to eliminating neglected tropical diseases through collaboration, stronger financing, and community-focused health interventions.