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UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (formally the International Child Development Centre)
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UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (formally known as the International Child Development Centre)

Piazza SS Annunziata, 12
50122 Florence, Italy

Tel: +39-55-20330
Fax: +39-55-244 817
Email: florence@unicef-icdc.it
Website: www.unicef-icdc.org

You will find a complete listing of publications available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format at www.unicef-icdc.org/pdf/

Mehr Khan, Director
E-mail: mkhan@unicef-icdc.it

The Centre is devoted exclusively to exploring ideas and issues that contribute to the implementation of child rights both in industrialized and developing countries.
It does this through action-oriented research, seminars, workshops and information dissemination.

Research focuses on two main areas:
- Child rights,
- Socio-economic monitoring and policy analysis.

Regular staff: 15, complemented by use of consultants, research associates, interns and junior professional officers. Also cooperative arrangements and secondments with UNICEF and other institutions.

Disciplines represented by the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre:
- Capacity-building
- Research
- Information management

 

Cooperating institutions:
- UNICEF Headquarters, National Committees, and Field Offices
- World Bank
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat)
- European University Institute
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
- Council of Europe
- High Commissioner for Human Rights

Last updated: 28 November 1999