International Save the Children Union

The intention was to create 'a powerful international organisation, which would extend its ramifications to the remotest corner of the globe'.

It brought together organisations from various countries that were initially working to tackle child suffering around Europe after World War I.

In 1923, it agreed, and then lobbied for, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child which was adopted by the League of Nations in the following year.

In 1946, it merged with the International Association for the Promotion of Child Welfare (founded 1921 in Brussels) to form the International Union for Child Welfare (French: Union internationale de protection de l'enfance).

In 1986, the General Council of the International Union for Child Welfare voted to disband the organisation, allegedly for reasons of financial mismanagement.