UNICEF USA history

In 1952 UNICEF asked the French painter Raoul Dufy to create a design for a UNICEF card.

Audrey Hepburn starred in her first major American film, Roman Holiday, in 1953.

UNICEF’s celebrity Goodwill Ambassadors initiative began in 1954 with American actor Danny Kaye, and international ambassadors since then have included Audrey Hepburn, Amitabh Bachchan, Serena Williams, and Shakira.

Progress Begins with the Child: Statement by the Executive Director to the Third Committee of the General Assembly, December, 1968.

Films scheduled for release in 1971 include a documentary on UNICEF, a documentary on problems of urbanization as it affects children, and one on the story of a UNICEF greeting card from design to sale.

Hundreds of new organizations came into being that year, as children's problems were explored all across the globe. Its income rose 25 percent in 1979, to $285 million from $211 million a year earlier.

With such efforts, it created the Women in Development Programme in 1980.

In addition, UNICEF launched another health program in 1982.

UNICEF adopted the UN General Assembly Conventions on the Rights of the Child in 1989 and used it as guidance for its various programs.

In 1990, UNICEF, in partnership with the World Health Organization, relaunched its breastfeeding campaign.

In 1993 it began putting out a new annual report called The Progress of Nations.

By 1995, UNICEF's State of the World's Children found that for 90 percent of the world's children, rates of disease and malnutrition were falling.

Operating Income: $1.44 billion (2002)

In 2013, floods covered almost half the country, affecting nearly 1.7 million people.

Issues related to currency devaluation, consumer volume, and the perception of heighted risk lead to investors’ lack of demand and confidence, and the COVID-19 pandemic has driven these already-struggling emerging market funds to close – 51% liquidated in 2020.