Brief Description

Established on December 11, 1946, to respond to the millions of displaced and refugee children deprived of shelter, fuel and food in the aftermath of World War II, UNICEF (originally abbreviation of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, now called UN Children's Fund) works in 191 countries on these strategic priorities:

  • Focus area 1: Young child survival and development: nutrition, health, water and sanitation, and emergencies
  • Focus area 2: Basic education and gender equality:
  • Focus area 3: HIV/AIDS and children
  • Focus area 4: Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse
  • Focus area 5: Policy advocacy and partnerships for children’s rights

URL: http://www.unicef.org

UNICEF is on YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr and Scribd,

Parties

The approach to partnerships is explained in two documents:

Corporate Partners are listed at http://www.unicef.org/corporate_partners/index_24525.html

Civil Society Partnerships are listed at http://www.unicef.org/about/partnerships/index.html

Objective

UNICEF’s mission is to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF is guided in doing this by the provisions and principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was adopted and opened for signature on November 1989 (http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm#art54).

Whereas the Convention on the Rights of the Child vests a wide range of duties with the state parties, its Articles 4, 22.2 and 28.3 mention the framework of international co-operation as an option in cases where the resources available to the state parties would not be sufficient to undertake the measures for the implementation of the rights recognized in the Convention.

Time Window

Started: 1946
Ends: