United Nations Children's Fund

United Nations Children's Fund (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.

United Nations Children's Fund

Embracing mainstream international law, this section on united nations children's fund 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 “united nations children's fund” 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

See Also

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)