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unicef
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The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund ( UNICEF ; ) is a United Nations program headquartered in New York City that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries . It is one of the members ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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by 1948, acronym from United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund , which was created in 1946 (the name was changed 1953 to United Nations Children's Fund but the acronym endured).
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For World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the UN FAO repeating or arbitrarily modifying Iraq's made-up numbers, see Cockburn and Cockburn, Out of the Ashes, p.
For many years, starting in 1946, they had worked for the International Children's Fund, then for UNICEF, before going to the Center of International Affairs at the United Nations in New York.
For example, a UNICEF field survey in July 1999 found that while the child mortality rate had been allowed to double in the areas of the country under the regime's control, in Kurdistan, where the oil-for-food program was run by the United Nations, child mortality had actually been reduced below pre-Gulf War levels.
A study conducted by UNICEF and Tufts University immediately after the Gulf War found considerable evidence of preexisting malnutrition among Iraqi children as a result of that prior era of neglect.