Great Moments in UNICEF History: The 60th Anniversary Video
What began as a temporary experiment 60 years ago has grown to become the world's leading agency for children. Today, UNICEF is active in over 190 countries, uniting people and partners to make the world a better place for future generations. Sixty years is but a blink of an eye in the course of history, but in that brief span of time the world has become a different place for children entirely. With the Millennium Development Goals as our guide, UNICEF will continue to evolve and respond to the challenges children face in a complex yet wondrous world. UNICEF was never meant to be here today, in the first decade of the 21st century. Yet today, a world without UNICEF is unimaginable. UNICEF was brought to life in December 1946 by unanimous vote at the first session of the UN General Assembly. The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, as it was then known, was to provide short-term relief to children in post-World War II Europe. Then as now, UNICEF was funded entirely by voluntary contributions - and once the immediate post-war needs of Europe's children had been seen to, many thought UNICEF should cease to exist.
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