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4 unusual facts about International Save the Children Union


Declaration of the Rights of the Child

These ideas were adopted by the International Save the Children Union, in Geneva, on 23 February 1923 and endorsed by the League of Nations General Assembly on 26 November 1924 as the World Child Welfare Charter.

The SCIU merged into the International Union of Child Welfare by 1946, and this group pressed the newly formed United Nations to continue to work for war-scarred children and for adoption of the World Child Welfare Charter.

International Save the Children Union

Its papers and those of its predecessor bodies were deposited in the archives of the Canton of Geneva.

UISE

International Save the Children Union, also known as L’Union Internationale de Secours aux Enfants (UISE), a former international humanitarian organization which functioned between 1920 and 1986



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