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International Organisations
  • United Nations
  • The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat. It is mandated to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realisation, by all people, of all rights established in the Charter of the United Nations and in international human rights laws and treaties.
  • One of its bodies is the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). It is a body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State parties. It also monitors implementation of two optional protocols to the Convention, on involvement of children in armed conflict and on sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
  • UNICEF (originally: United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, now: United Nations Children's Fund) was established on 11 December 1946 by the United Nations to meet the emergency needs of children in post-war Europe and China. It is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. It has the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality. UNICEF upholds the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  • The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC) works to strengthen the capacity of UNICEF and its cooperating institutions to respond to the evolving needs of children and to develop a new global ethic for children. It promotes the effective implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in both developing and industrialized countries, thereby reaffirming the universality of children’s rights and of UNICEF’s mandate.
  • The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is a specialised United Nations agency, mainly dealing with Education, Social and Natural Science, Culture and Communication. The goal of UNESCO’s early childhood programme, is to assist Member States to expand access, improve quality and ensure equity at the earliest stages of a child’s learning path.
  • The World Health Organisation (WHO) has a Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development (CAH), which is responsible for interventions concerning health, growth and development outcomes for the group from birth to 19 years.
  • The World Bank has an Early Childhood Development Programme. The site is a knowledge source designed to assist policy makers, program managers, and practitioners in their efforts to promote the healthy growth and integral development of young children.

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