CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -With the pandemic expanding rapidly across a region that contains a quarter of the world’s population, UNICEF’s Lives Upended report describes the disastrous immediate and longer-term consequences that the virus and the measures to curb it have had on 600 million children and the services they depend on.

Detailed explanation-2: -The organisation began its work in India in 1949 with three staff members and established an office in Delhi three years later. Currently, it advocates for the rights of India’s children in 16 states.

Detailed explanation-3: -UNICEF India relies on the support and donations from businesses and individuals to sustain and expand health, nutrition, water and sanitation, education and child protection programmes for all girls and boys in India. Support us today to help every child survive and thrive!

Detailed explanation-4: -UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

Detailed explanation-5: -The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was created in 1946 to bring emergency food and health care to children and mothers in countries devastated by World War II. In 1950, UNICEF’s mandate was extended to address long-term needs of children and women in developing countries worldwide.