UN recognition of World Cerebral Palsy Day
50 million people with cerebral palsy deserve a place on the global agenda.
Today, World CP Day brings together more than 187 partner organisations and reaches millions of people around the world each year.
But 6 October is not yet formally recognised by the United Nations.
UN recognition of World Cerebral Palsy Day
50 million people with cerebral palsy deserve a place on the global agenda.
Today, World CP Day brings together more than 187 partner organisations and reaches millions of people around the world each year.
But 6 October is not yet formally recognised by the United Nations.
Formal UN recognition would help turn an established global movement into an enduring international platform for attention and action.
Formal UN recognition would help turn an established global movement into an enduring international platform for attention and action.
Why UN recognition matters
Keep cerebral palsy on the international agenda
Build support for better research, services and data
Strengthen inclusion and opportunity
Give greater visibility to the priorities of people with cerebral palsy
Add your support
Explore the changes people want to see
What a day. 💚🌏
Across the world, people came together to ask an important question:
What’s the change you want to see for people with cerebral palsy?
You shared your ideas.
You started conversations.
You tagged people who can make change happen.
Thank you for being part of a global community that is #UniqueAndUnited.
#WorldCPDay
50 million people with cerebral palsy around the world.
That’s 50 million different experiences.
50 million perspectives.
50 million reasons for change. 💚
This World Cerebral Palsy Day, you helped bring some of those voices into the conversation — sharing the changes you want to see and asking others to help make them happen.
#WorldCPDay #UniqueANDUnited
Meet Chad. 💚
Chad’s change is a shift in expectations.
He wants people with cerebral palsy to have the opportunity to discover what they’re capable of — without someone else deciding their limits for them.
Different doesn’t mean less capable.
Different doesn’t mean less ambitious.
Different doesn’t mean we can’t do hard things.
Sometimes, we just have to do them our way.
Chad wants to see more opportunities for people with cerebral palsy to move, compete, create, lead, work, dream and pursue whatever gives them purpose — with the support to find their own path.
Don’t decide our limits for us. Give us the opportunity to find them ourselves.
That’s Chad’s change. What’s yours?
Share it using #UniqueAndUnited and tag a local leader, business or organisation who can help make it happen.
#WorldCPDay
World Cerebral Palsy Day may be one day but changes need to happen everyday.
Over the past few days, people around the world have shared their voices, their experiences and the changes they want to see for people with cerebral palsy.
And this is only the beginning.
Keep asking what could be better. Keep making space for people with cerebral palsy to be heard. Keep speaking up for the changes that matter.
The change doesn’t stop here. 💚
#WorldCPDay #UniqueANDUnited
Meet Diana. 💚
Diana’s change is to see more people with cerebral palsy represented in public policy decision-making, civil society movements and organisations.
For Diana, that means making sure people with cerebral palsy have a voice when decisions are being made that affect their lives — not just in disability policy, but across all areas of society.
She wants policymakers, organisations and institutions, including across the European Union, to recognise that disability rights are everyone’s responsibility.
Because real change happens when people with cerebral palsy are not just represented in the conversation, but are part of shaping the decisions that affect them.
What’s your change?
Share it using #UniqueAndUnited and tag a local leader, business, or organisation who can help make it happen.
#WorldCPDay
50 million people, 50 million reasons for change!
Here are just some of the changes people with cerebral palsy are hoping to see this World Cerebral Palsy Day.
Keep sharing your change and don’t forget to tag @worldcpday and use #UniqueAndUnited to join the global conversation.
#WorldCPDay
Today, people with cerebral palsy around the world are coming together to call for change. 🌏💚
Our change is clear: formal United Nations recognition of 6 October as World Cerebral Palsy Day.
Recognition is more than a date on the calendar. It can help keep cerebral palsy on the global agenda — supporting greater awareness, research, services, inclusion and opportunity.
Now, we need your support.
Add your voice to the call for UN recognition and help make 6 October a formally recognised global day for the 50 million people with cerebral palsy worldwide.
👉 Show your support at via the link in our bio!
#WorldCPDay #UniqueAndUnited
What a day! 💚🌏
We’re celebrating the incredible changes people are calling for this World Cerebral Palsy Day and there’s still time to share yours!
So, what’s your change? 👇
✨ Choose it
📣 Share it
🤝 Tag a leader, business or organisation who can help make it happen
Tag @worldcpday and use #UniqueAndUnited to join people around the world speaking up for change.
Let’s see what we can change together. 💚
#WorldCPDay
