UNICEF

If you went to a government school, you may remember a drive for polio drops, a mid-day meal, or a poster about washing hands with soap. Behind many such campaigns in India and around the world stands UNICEF. It was born as an emergency fund for hungry European children after the Second World War and is now the UN body that speaks for children everywhere. But is it a court, a charity or a treaty body, and what is its legal character?

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UNICEF, created by the UN General Assembly in December 1946 as an emergency fund for children and made a permanent part of the UN in 1953, is a subsidiary programme of the General Assembly, not a specialised agency; it funds and delivers services for children and promotes the Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989.

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