Bosnia and Herzegovina elected to UNICEF Executive Board 2016-2018.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has been elected a member of the UNICEF Executive Board for the period 2016-2018 at a session of the UN - Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) held in New York on April 8, 2015, reports the BH News Agency Patria.

UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Fund, and its primary task is to care for the well-being of children and youth. The Fund is financed entirely by voluntary contributions from governments, foundations, and private donors. UNICEF's work is managed by the Executive Board, composed of 36 members with a three-year term.

Through its Permanent Mission to the UN in New York, Bosnia and Herzegovina continues the trend of notable engagement at the United Nations headquarters in the field of human rights protection, for which it has long been recognized, both in its main bodies and its functional bodies and commissions.

This year, Bosnia and Herzegovina is a member of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women "UN WOMEN", the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and the UN Committee on Conferences, and from January 1, 2016, the list expands with membership in the UNICEF Executive Board.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has also submitted its candidacy for membership in ECOSOC (for the period 2017-2019), which is the main UN body for economic and social development issues, and is actively preparing for the elections that will be held in June 2016 in New York.

Through this, Bosnia and Herzegovina confirms its full readiness to actively participate in the discussion and decision-making on all global issues, from issues of peace and security through the UN Security Council, through human rights issues through the UN Human Rights Council, issues of maintaining and building peace through the UN Peacebuilding Commission, to issues of global economic development through ECOSOC.