The Head of UNICEF (Who is a Former Republican Official Nominated by Donald Trump) Warns Against Cutting Aid to Central America Mark Leon Goldberg April 3, 2019The head of UNICEF, Henrietta Fore, is a former Republican official. She served in George W. Bush's administration as a top official at USAID, the State Department and even ran the US Mint for several years in the early 2000s. She was nominated to the position...
The White House Seeks to Eliminate Funding for UNICEF Mark Leon Goldberg March 12, 2019The budget request released by the White House this week includes massive cuts to international affairs spending, including deep cuts to the State Department and USAID. But also included in the Trump administration's chopping block: UNICEF, the UN agency that ...
UN Releases Alarming Data on Lack of Breastfeeding Worldwide Joanne Lu July 31, 2018The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are continuing to push for legal restrictions on how infant formula and breast-milk substitutes are marketed, after they found that an estimated 78 million newborns are not bei...
New Analysis: 1 in 12 Children Face “Bleaker Prospects” Than Their Parents. Here’s Why Joanne Lu December 6, 2017The future doesn’t look so bright for 180 million children. Despite major improvements in child well-being around the world over the last 20 years, a recent UNICEF analysis found that children in 37 countries face “bleaker prospects” than their parents in esc...
This new data on children who are migrants and refugees will shock you Mark Leon Goldberg September 7, 2016Unicef revealed some shocking new data on the number of children around the world who have been dislocated. The report, called Uprooted: The Growing Crisis for Refugee and Migrant Children finds that some 50 million children around the world are displaced, inc...
Infographic of the Day: A Shocking Statistic About the Toll of War on Syrian Children Mark Leon Goldberg March 15, 2016March 15 is the five year anniversary of the uprising that lead to the Syrian civil war. To commemorate the day, UNICEF released a brutal report about the consequences of the war on Syria's children. And the report contained a deeply disturbing statistic: one ...
James P. Grant Saved Millions upon Millions of Children Around the World. So Why Isn’t He a Household Name? Mark Leon Goldberg November 18, 2015James P. Grant is not a household name. But he most certainly should be. Grant lead UNICEF from 1979 until his death in 1995, and as Nick Kristof once wrote he “probably saved more lives than were destroyed by Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined.” He was a pow...
“Trick or Treat for UNICEF” Turns 65 Mark Leon Goldberg October 30, 2015In 1950 a school librarian in Philadelphia named Mary Emma Alison, her husband Clive and their two children started a Halloween tradition that lives on to this day. Here is the official origin story, as told by UNICEF: In late 1949, Mrs. Allison took her thre...
This Woman With Albinism Was Attacked for Her Body Parts Mark Leon Goldberg May 6, 2015Albinism--the medical condition that results in the lack of pigment in the skin--is particularly prevalent in Tanzania, affecting one in 1,400 people. For comparison, in western countries, about one in 20,000 people live with albinism.This uniquely high pr...
