Crossword clues for unicef
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- Danny Kaye was its first celebrity goodwill ambassador
- World Toilet Day org
- World relief group
- Trick-or-treat org
- Trick-or-treat charity
- Relief org. for kids
- Peace Prize-winning relief org
- Peace Prize winner right after MLK
- Org. with a "Trick-or-Treat" donation box
- Org. supported by trick-or-treaters
- Org. helping young refugees
- Noted trick-or-treat beneficiary
- Nobel-winning relief org. for kids
- Nobel-winning org
- Nobel Peace Prize recipient: 1965
- Kid's charity associated with Halloween
- International Day of the Girl Child org
- Humanitarian org. since 1946
- Humanitarian org. focused on the young
- Global relief org. for kids
- Children's charity associated with Halloween
- Charity whose name appears on the Barcelona football club's jerseys
- Charitable organization for which Selena Gomez is a Goodwill Ambassador: Abbr
- 1965 Peace Prize winner
- 1965 Nobel Peace Prize winner (organization dedicated to the world's kids)
- 1965 Nobel Peace Prize winner
- "Progress for Children" org
- "For every child" rights group
- '65 Peace Prize recipient
- Kid-helping org.
- 1965 Peace Prize recipient
- Social welfare org.
- Org. that won the 1965 Nobel Peace Prize
- Trick-or-treater's cause
- International humanitarian grp.
- Social welfare grp. with a Peace Prize
- An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries
- Agcy. promoting children's well-being
- Children's worldwide org.
- Intl. org. for young ones
- Org. created in 1946
- Charitable acronym
- Halloween beneficiary
- Worldwide relief org
- Halloween charity
- World aid org
- Social welfare org
- Children's welfare org
- 1965 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
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- Org. with "Trick-or-Treat" donation boxes
- Kid-helping org
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- Intl. relief agency since 1946
- Int'l relief org. for kids
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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).
Wikipedia
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 of the United Nations Development Group and its Executive Committee.
UNICEF was created by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II. Maurice Pate, American humanitarian and businessman, co-founded the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) with Herbert Hoover in 1947. Pate served as its first executive director from 1947 until his death in 1965. In 1953, UNICEF became a permanent part of the United Nations System and its name was shortened from the original United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund but it has continued to be known by the popular acronym based on this previous title.
UNICEF relies on contributions from governments and private donors, UNICEF's total income for 2008 was $3,372,540,239. Governments contribute two thirds of the organization's resources; private groups and some 6 million individuals contribute the rest through the National Committees. It is estimated that 91.8% of their revenue is distributed to Program Services. UNICEF's programs emphasize developing community-level services to promote the health and well-being of children. UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 and the Prince of Asturias Award of Concord in 2006.
Most of UNICEF's work is in the field, with staff in over 190 countries and territories. More than 200 country offices carry out UNICEF's mission through a program developed with host governments. Seven regional offices provide technical assistance to country offices as needed.
Overall management and administration of the organization takes place at its headquarters in New York. UNICEF's Supply Division is based in Copenhagen and serves as the primary point of distribution for such essential items as vaccines, antiretroviral medicines for children and mothers with HIV, nutritional supplements, emergency shelters, family reunification, educational supplies, among others. A 36-member Executive Board establishes policies, approves programs and oversees administrative and financial plans. The Executive Board is made up of government representatives who are elected by the United Nations Economic and Social Council, usually for three-year terms.
Recent executive directors of UNICEF include Carol Bellamy (1995–2005), a former head of the Peace Corps, and Ann Veneman (2005-2010), a former United States Secretary of Agriculture whose mandate included increasing the organization's focus on the Millennium Development Goals. Since 2010, the current Executive Director of UNICEF has been Anthony Lake, a former US National Security Advisor.
UNICEF is an intergovernmental organization (IGO) and is accountable to those governments. UNICEF’s salary and benefits package is based on the United Nations Common System.
Usage examples of "unicef".
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.