The United Nations International Children Emergency’s Fund (UNICEF) was initially created in the aftermath of World War II, as part of a post-war initiative to protect children against poverty, disease and famine. Decades later, it serves as one of the world’s most successful and active child welfare agencies, with operations in a multitude of member states. Most of its work, however, focuses on developing countries, where it aims to provide all children with equal rights, opportunities and liberties, even when faced with conflicts and long-lasting humanitarian crises.

UNICEF is a specialized agency of the Economic and Social Council, and uses the funding it collects from financial organizations and member states to combat the main issues plaguing children in regions like Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. It supplies food and water to regions where starvation and dehydration are eminent, promotes important fields like education and sanitation, all the while responding to natural disasters and violations of children’s rights. Vaccination programmes also comprise some of their activities in countries prone to outbreaks and epidemics.

JMUN 2025 has decided to focus on two humanitarian emergencies that pose a significant threat to children. Both malnutrition and child migration come with important consequences, restricting the rights to physical protection, health care, food, shelter and freedom from fear that all minors should rightfully possess. Hence, it is of utmost importance that delegates work to create solutions to these issues, focusing not only on resolving them in the short term, but on crafting measures that will be able to tackle them in the long term as well.