Development assistance to children
Development assistance to children is channelled through the United Nations Children's Fund- UNICEF.
Several UN programs, funds and specialized agencies work with child-related activities. Among these you will find:
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United Nations Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization |
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International Labour Organization |
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World Food Programme |
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World Health Organization |
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United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East |
More on UN and Development assistance to children
- Convention on the Rights of the Child is the core document which sets the agenda for the United Nations work for children. More on the Convention, at DagDok: Rights of the Child.
- DagDok:
- UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund.
- UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- ILO - International Labour Organization.
- WFP- World Food Programme.
- WHO- World Health Organization.
- UNRWA - United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Key UN documents
- UN Charter in Swedish | in English
- UN System Chart
- Yearbook of the United Nations
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Swedish | in English
- Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
- Statue of the International Court of Justice
UN documents and publications in catalogues and databases
- United Nations Digital Library offers UN documents and open access publications, UN voting data and speeches, UN maps, Content in 6+ languages. Replaces the traditional online catalogue UNBISnet.
- UN iLibrary UN publications online covering different topics.
- ODS full-text UN documents published from 1993 onward and scanned documents published between 1946 and 1993 in the official languages of the UN.
- Daily list of documents (ODS). Documents published for the day, with full text links, can be found in the United Nations full text database ODS.
- UNBIS Thesaurus a multilingual database of the controlled vocabulary used to describe UN documents.
- Index to proceedings is an annual bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the major UN organs. The index includes:
- a list of all documents
- a comprehensive subject index
- an index to speeches
- a voting chart of resolutions
- United Nations Documents Index (United Nations Digital Library) References to all documents by subject area are published. A collection of indexes is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld and Law Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
Last modified: 2023-03-31