The 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....
The 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...
The 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 being...
The 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...
Unicef 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...
March 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...
James 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,...
In 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...
Albinism–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 prevalence of...