UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF supports governments and civil society in some 155 countries to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international standards. UNICEF’s rule of law work includes support to child rights legislative reform; justice for children; disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of children associated with armed forces and armed groups; monitoring and reporting of grave violations against children as per Security Council resolution 1612; and protection against abuse, exploitation and violence including trafficking and sexual and gender-based violence.
UNICEF supports the inclusion of child rights provisions in constitutions, the development of children’s codes and the review of relevant national laws to bring them in line with international standards. There are currently over 20 national constitutions with provisions dedicated to the protection of the rights of the child, including in Timor-Leste, Iraq, South Africa and Brazil. By the end of December 2008, 92 countries had prohibited violence against children by law including Cambodia, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Moldova and Uzbekistan. UNICEF also supports the establishment of independent human rights institutions for children in several countries.
UNICEF supports the establishment of juvenile justice systems that foster the harmonious reintegration of children in their communities in more than 120 countries and promotes diversion from judicial proceedings and alternatives to deprivation of liberty for children in conflict with the law. This includes mediation, community service or life skills programmes in numerous countries including Afghanistan, Brazil, Albania, Serbia, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Montenegro, the Philippines or Zambia.
UNICEF also supports the establishment of child-sensitive procedures for child victims and witnesses of crime in police stations and courts, including in Timor-Leste, Myanmar, Azerbaijan, Sudan, Cambodia, El Salvador, Papua New Guinea, Albania and Mozambique. Special units for victims, including legal assistance and counseling, were recently established in courts in Kenya, Morocco and Malawi.
Introduction to UNICEF
The UN operates a host of other economic and social programs. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) addresses the needs of children worldwide. The International Labor Organization (ILO) advocates for workers’ rights. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) helps countries improve education and literacy, promotes ethics in science, and works to preserve cultural diversity. The United Nations Population Fund promotes family planning, safe pregnancies and childbirths, and reproductive health in developing countries, and it helps countries formulate population policies. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime helps countries fight illicit drugs, crime, and terrorism. The UN has an organization, commission, or specialized agency to address nearly every social issue on the global agenda.” (1)
Unicef (the United Nations Children’s Fund) (in the Human Development Area)
In this context, Unicef (the United Nations Children’s Fund) means: is the lead agency of the United Nations, which deals with solving problems for the survival, protection and development of children. The purpose of UNICEF is to provide children with basic needs, capacity building, as well as providing a more fully realization of the potential of children. Having began since 1994, UNICEF carries out its activities on children’s rights in Uzbekistan.
Functions of the UN: Economic and Social Development Other Economic and Social Programs
UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund, abbreviated as UNICEF, is a United Nations (UN) agency that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. Headquartered in New York City, UNICEF works in 190 countries through country programs and national committees
Among other things, UNICEF advocates for measures to give children the best start in life, for girls’ education and for all children to be well-nourished and immunised against common childhood diseases.
UNICEF
Embracing mainstream international law, this section on unicef explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.
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See Also
- International Organization
- Foreign Relations
- Organization
- United Nations
- United Nations System
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Further Reading
- The entry “unicef” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press
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Further Information
UNICEF website
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
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Notes and References
- Information about UNICEF in the Encarta Online Encyclopedia
Guide to UNICEF
Hierarchical Display of Unicef
International Organisations > United Nations > UN programmes and funds
Social Questions > Demography and population > Composition of the population > Distribution by age > Child
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Concept of Unicef
See the dictionary definition of Unicef.
Characteristics of Unicef
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Translation of Unicef
Thesaurus of Unicef
International Organisations > United Nations > UN programmes and funds > Unicef
Social Questions > Demography and population > Composition of the population > Distribution by age > Child > Unicef
See also
- United Nations Children’s Fund
- United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
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