UNICEF
United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF is headquartered in New York, but a large part of the activities take part in the regional offices and the country offices supported by national committees.
Activities
UNICEF has its principal focus on long-term programmes for improving the conditions for children in developing countries. This includes
- health
- basic education
- food
- sanitation
- water supply.
Emergency situations
UNICEF also takes part in emergency and reconstruction aid. Operations in conflict and civil war areas have intensified the cooperation with a number of UN, non-governmental organizations and national governments.
Opinion-building
An important part of the work is opinion-building. UNICEF is financed almost exclusively by voluntary contributions from the UN member states and from private donors.
More on UNICEF
Convention on the Rights of the Child | Barnkonventionen
As part of opinion-building and to provide inform about conditions for the world's children, UNICEF publishes a vast amount of information material, reports and books, some of which is directed to children.
The UNICEF website provides background information, news, statistics, full text documents and reports:
- The Executive Board of UNICEF submits an annual report to the ECOSOC in the documentary series Economic and Social Council Official Records. Supplement No. 14. It provides a summary of UNICEF's programme and activities with references to relevant documents and reports.
- UNICEF and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- UNICEF data and statistics
- UNICEF data and the Sustainable Goals (SDGs)
Publications and reports
UNICEF publications and reports:
- The State of the World's Children, an annual report with comprehensive analysis of global trends affecting children.
- UNICEF Annual Report.
- Humanitarian Action for Children highlights the situation of children and women across countries.
UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1965.
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
FN-dokument och -publikationer i kataloger och databaser
- United Nations Digital Library. FN-bibliotekens katalog över FN-dokument och open access-publikationer, röstningsresultat och tal.
- UN iLibrary FN-publikationer online från olika ämnesområden.
- ODS (Official Document System) är en fulltextdatabas med FN-dokument publicerade sedan 1993, samt digitaliserade dokument publicerade mellan 1946 och 1993.
- Daily list of documents. Dokument publicerade för dagen, med länkar till fulltext, finns i FNs fulltextdatabas ODS.
- UNBIS Thesaurus Ämnesordlista som används för att beskriva FN-dokument.
- Index to proceedings en årlig bibliografisk guide till FNs huvudorgans dokumentationen som består av två delar:
- Första delen innehåller en lista över alla möten samt ett ämnesregister. Där finns även en lista på samtliga dokument som utgått från huvudorganet under den aktuella sessionen.
- Andra delen är ett register över samtliga tal, där man kan söka på land, talare och ämne.
- United Nations Documents Index (United Nations Digital Library). Ämnessökningar kan göras i 'Subject Index' och ger referenser till alla dokument. Äldre årgångar finns i Dag Hammarskjöld och Juridiska bibliotekets FN-samling.