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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Antje von Ungern-Sternberg

Content type:
Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
June 2019

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 08 December 2023

Subject(s):
Economic, social, and cultural rights — Children, rights

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, is a subsidiary organ of the UN General Assembly entrusted with the protection of the child (Children, International Protection). In 1946, the United Nations General Assembly established the ‘United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund’ designed to help children in post-war Europe suffering from famine and disease (United Nations, General Assembly). In 1953, the fund was assigned its permanent mandate and its current name. UNICEF, whose annual resources amount to more than US$6 billion (2017), is based in...
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