Role of ILO, UNESCO, UNICEF and WHO

Your phone charger was probably made by someone who works a long shift. The vaccine you took as a child was probably delivered with help from an international agency. The school you attended teaches a curriculum shaped partly by global ideas about education. Treaties set the standard, but who actually does the daily work of turning human rights into wages, vaccines and classrooms? Four UN bodies do much of it: the International Labour Organization, UNESCO, UNICEF and the World Health Organization.

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The ILO, UNESCO, UNICEF and WHO are the UN-system bodies that turn human rights standards into practice in their own fields: labour, education-science-culture, children, and health.

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