UNICEF was established in 1946 in order to

administer the education programmes of the League of NationsCorrect answerYour answerhelp children at risk after the Second World War, regardless of which side their country fought onCorrect answerYour answersupervise the repatriation of prisoners of warCorrect answerYour answerrun the United Nations' famine relief in AsiaCorrect answerYour answer

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UNICEF was set up in the aftermath of the Second World War, when children across Europe and beyond were in immediate danger.
Its brief deliberately made no distinction between the children of victors and of the defeated.
The mandate has been children's welfare ever since, and today it runs the largest humanitarian warehouse in the world.

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The neutrality in the original mandate is the point worth remembering, and it is what the question is testing rather than the date.

Concept: UNICEF's founding and original purpose
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