Which organizations would most likely work directly to reduce child mortality rates? Check all that apply.
a) IFRC
b) Doctors Without Borders
c) Economic and Social Council
d) WHO
e) UNICEF
Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF) is an international medical and humanitarian organization that helps the victims of natural or human disasters and armed conflicts, without discrimination of race, sex, religion, philosophy or politics. This organization received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund is an agency of the United Nations (UN) based in New York that provides humanitarian and development assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. He is one of the members and the executive committee of the United Nations Development Group.
World Health Organization or WHO is the organism of the United Nations (UN) specialized in managing policies of prevention, promotion and intervention in health worldwide. Initially it was organized by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that prompted the drafting of the first statutes of WHO. The first meeting of WHO took place in Geneva in 1948. The 196 Member States of WHO govern the Organization through the World Health Assembly. The Assembly is composed of representatives of all the Member States of WHO. In 2009, the institution was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
The International Federation (IFRC) is a humanitarian organization founded in 1919 in Paris after the First World War (World War I). The need to create an organization that brings together the different national Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in cooperation and assistance was observed.
