Origins and Achievements
The year UNICEF was founded
When was 1946?
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Which document, adopted in 1989, is the most widely ratified treaty on children's rights?
Step people can take against viral diseases/infections such as polio-- UNICEF led a campaign to give these to nearly half the world's children.
What are vaccines?
Approximate number of children worldwide that are out of school.
What is 250 million?
Life essential resource that nearly 2 billion people worldwide lack access to
What is clean drinking water?
Program made by the United Nations for the International Children's Emergency Fund.
What is UNICEF?
The right to education, health, and protection.
What are children's rights?
One of the diseases UNICEF helped to nearly eradicate through vaccination campaigns.
What is polio, measles, or smallpox?
UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) that UNICEF works to achieve.
What is SDG 4 -- Quality Education?
1/3 of all deaths in the world are due to this ailment-- currently ~132K children (under the age of 5) in Gaza suffer from this
What is malnutrition/malnourishment?
Global prize that UNICEF won in 1965.
UNICEF campaigned against this practice that harms millions of young girls worldwide-- typically under the age of 18.
What is child marriage?
UNICEF led a campaign to prevent mother-to-child transmission of this virus.
What is HIV?
Name one barrier that prevents girls from accessing education.
What is child marriage, poverty, or lack of sanitation facilities?
The average amount of water that an individual uses daily.
What is 100 gallons?
UNICEF was created after this event, which created a need for emergency food and healthcare.
What was UNICEF's original purpose?
What is WWII?
One in ten children globally are forced into ____ _____.
What is child labor?
Life-saving supplement UNICEF distributed to prevent blindness and strengthen immunity in children.
What is Vitamin A?
UNICEF program that provides schooling to children in conflict and disaster zones.
What is UNICEF's "Education in Emergencies" program?
Leading cause for water scarcity today.
What is climate change?
Approximately the number of countries that UNICEF works with.
What is 190+?
This article in the Convention states every child has the right to life, survival, and development
What is Article 6?
Program UNICEF worked with to track and improve global immunization coverage.
What is the The Expanded Program on Immunization?
UNICEF helps supply _____ with these essential learning materials.
What are schools?
Term for when children are too short for their age due to chronic malnutrition.
What is stunting?