The United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, was originally created to provide relief for children in countries devastated by the destruction of World War II. After 1950, UNICEF turned to focus on general programs for the improvement of children's welfare worldwide, and in 1965, it was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for its humanitarian efforts. The organization concentrates on areas in which relatively small expenditures can have a significant impact on the lives of the most disadvantaged children in developing countries, such as the prevention and treatment of disease, child healthcare, malnutrition, illiteracy, and other welfare services.

 

This book features in the following series: Global Organisations, Global Organizations .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Chelsea House Publishers .

Ada Verloren is an attorney who teaches in the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She was previously affiliated with the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame Law School. Verloren has a Ph. D. in law from the University of London, an LL. M. in international human rights law from the University of Notre Dame, and a law degree from the University of South Africa.