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UNICEF
UNESCO
ILO and IMO
WHO
History
• UNICEF was created by the United
Nations General Assembly to provide
emergency food and healthcare to
children in countries that had been
devastated by World War II
• In 1953 UNICEF became a permanent
part of the United Nations System
Location
• Headquarter: New York City
• 8 regional offices and country offices
worldwide, and UNICEF's supply
facility and research center are
located in Copenhagen, Denmark
and Florence, Italy
Focus areas
• 1. Child survival and development.
2. Basic education and gender
equality.
3. HIV/AIDS and children
4. Child protection (from violence,
exploitation and abuse)
5. Policy advocacy and partnerships
(for children's rights)
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 UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL,
SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL
ORGANIZATION

• UNESCO has 193 Member States and 7 Associate

Member States. 
• It is governed by the General Conference -
establishes the Organization's goals and
priorities every two years and sets the budget.  
• the Executive Board - meets twice a year to follow
programme implementation.
• The Secretariat, headed by the Director-General,
implements the decisions of these two bodies.
• UNESCO has its headquarters in Paris. It is
housed in an outstanding, Modernist building
inaugurated in 1958 and recently renovated. It
has more than 50 fields offices around the world.
UNESCO’s Programme and Budget for
2010-2011 
2010-2011
• To translate the policy directions and
focus provided by the Medium-Term
Strategy for 2008-2013 into concrete
thematic and policy-style approaches
for the 5 Programme Sectors of
UNESCO (Education, Natural Sciences,
Social and Human Sciences, Culture,
Communication and Information).
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Main Themes
– Gender equality
– Youth
– Least developed countries
– Culture of peace
– Dialogue among civilizations
– Public-private partnership
– Globalization
As a specialized agency of the UN system,
UNESCO contributes to the building of peace,
the alleviation of poverty, sustainable
development and intercultural dialogue
through education, the sciences, culture,
communication and information
The overarching objectives
• Attaining quality Education for All
• Mobilizing scientific knowledge and
science policy for sustainable
development;
• Addressing emerging ethical challenges
• Promoting cultural diversity and
intercultural dialogue 
• Building inclusive knowledge societies
through information and communication
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The International Labour
organization
HISTORY
• Established in 1919
• 1944 - Declaration of Philadelphia - the
aims and objectives of the ILO;
• 1946 - the 1st specialized agency of the
UN
• 1969 - the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1998 - the Declaration on Fundamental
Principles and Rights at Work.
AIMS AND GOALS
4 strategic objectives:
- Promote and realize standards and
fundamental principles and rights at
work
- Create greater opportunities for women
and men to decent employment and
income
- Enhance the coverage and effectiveness
of social protection for all
- Strengthen tripartism and social
dialogue
MEMBERS
• Today the ILO comprises 183 MSs;
• Any state admitted to membership of
the UN may become a Member of the
ILO;
• The General Conference of the ILO
may admit members to the
Organization by a vote of 2/3 of the
delegates attending the session,
including 2/3 of the government
delegates present and voting.
STRUCTURE
3 main bodies:
• International labour Conference
(2+1+1)
• Governing body (28+14+14)
• International Labour Office (Geneva)

• All of which comprise governments',

employers' and workers'
representatives.
ACTIVITIES
• creation of the system of
international labour standards = over
180 ILO Conventions and 190
Recommendations covering all
aspects of the world of work;
• supervisory system helps to ensure
that countries implement the
conventions they ratify;
The ILO seeks to address issues like:

• forced labour, including child labour,

• freedom of association,
• all kinds of discrimination,
• wages and other conditions of
employment,
• social protection,
• international migration,
• health and safety, etc.
The International Maritime
Organization
INTRO
• established by means of Geneva
Convention adopted on 17 March 1948
which entered into force in 1958;
• First meeting of the IMO in 1959;
• Until 1982 it was called the Inter-
Governmental Maritime Consultative
Organization (IMCO).
• HQ in London, UK;
OVERALL AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

“safe, secure and efficient

shipping on clean oceans”
• improve the safety and security of
international shipping;
• to prevent marine pollution from
ships;
STRUCTURE
• Assembly, Council, Secretariat
• 5 Committees:
• the Maritime Safety Com.;
• the Marine Environment Protection
Com.;
• the Legal Committee;
• the Technical Co-operation
Committee
• the Facilitation Committee
• MEMBERSHIP
• IMO has 169 MSs + 3 Associate MSs.
• (79) NGOs in consultative status
• (61) IGOs with observer status
• Budget 2011- £30,860,300
• Contributions to the budget depend
on the tonnage of the merchant fleet
of MSs.
ACTIVITIES
• Int. Convention on Safety of Life at Sea
(SOLAS)
• Convention on Int. Regulations for Preventing
Collisions at Sea (COLREG)
• Int. Convention on Maritime Search and
Rescue
• Int. Convention for the Prevention of Pollution
from Ships (MARPOL)
• Int. Ship and Port Facility Code
• Int. Convention on Oil Pollution
Preparedness, Response and Co-operation
(OPRC)
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• WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for
health within the United Nations system.
• It is responsible for:
- providing leadership on global health matters,
- shaping the health research agenda,
- setting norms and standards,
- articulating evidence-based policy options,
- providing technical support to countries and monitoring and
assessing health trends.
• Established on 7 April 1948, with headquarters in
Geneva, the agency inherited the mandate and
resources of the Health Organization (agency of the
League of Nations).
• In the 21st century, health is a shared
responsibility, involving equitable access to
essential care and collective defence against
transnational threats.
Constitution and history
• The WHO's constitution states that its objective
"is the attainment by all people of the highest
possible level of health.“ The WHO is one of the
agencies of the United Nations, its constitution
formally coming into force on the first
World Health Day, (7 April 1948, ratified by the
26th members).
• Jawaharlal Nehru had given an opinion to start
WHO. Prior to this its operations, as well as the
remaining activities of the
League of Nations Health Organization, were
under the control of an Interim Commission
following an International Health Conference in
the summer of 1946. The transfer was authorized
by a Resolution of the General Assembly
Activities
• The WHO supports the development and distribution of safe and
effective vaccines, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and drugs.
• It develops and promotes the use of evidence-based tools, norms
and standards to support Members to inform health policy
options. It publishes a World Health Report including an expert
assessment of a specific global health topic.
• It has published tools for monitoring the capacity of national
health systems and health workforces to meet population health
needs, and endorsed the world's first official HIV/AIDS Toolkit for
Zimbabwe, making it an international standard.
• WHO conducts health research in communicable diseases, non-
communicable conditions and injuries.
• WHO has worked on:
- Global Initiative for Emergency
- Essential Surgical Care
- the Guidelines for Essential Trauma Care focussed on access and
quality.
- Safe Surgery Saves Lives addresses the safety of surgical care.
The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist is in current use worldwide in
the effort to improve safety in surgical patients.
Structure
• Members of the UN may become members by accepting its Constitution.
• Others may be admitted as members (application approved by a simple
majority vote of the WHA (-World Health Assembly ).
• Territories are not responsible for the conduct of their international
relations may be admitted as Associate Members upon application made
on their behalf by the Member/other authority responsible for their
international relations.
• 193 Members of WHO are grouped according to regional distribution.
• WHO Members appoint delegations to the WHA, decision-making body).
• All UN members are eligible for WHO membership, “Other countries may
be admitted as members (application approved by a simple majority vote
of the WHA).”
• The WHA meets in May/year. In addition to appointing the Director-General
every 5 years, it considers the financial policies and reviews and approves
the proposed programme budget.
• The WHA elects 34 members to the Executive Board for 3-year terms. The
functions are: to carry out the decisions and policies of the WHA, to advise
it, to facilitate its work in general.
• The WHO is financed by contributions from members and donors.
• The WHO's work has involved increasing collaboration with cca. 80
partnerships ("official or working relations") with:
• NGOs, the pharmaceutical industry,
• Foundations as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation.
Staffing
• The WHO shares a core of common
personnel policy with other agencies.
• The WHO has recently banned the
recruitment of cigarette smokers, to
promote the principle of a tobacco-free
work environment.
• The WHO successfully rallied 168
countries to sign the Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control in 2003.
• On 28 August 2005, the National People’s
Congress of China signed the Convention.
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