Carol Bellamy
Educator
1942-01-14
Carol Bellamy is an American public servant and nonprofit executive who served as Executive Director of UNICEF from 1995 to 2005. She was also the first woman elected president of the New York City Council.
Books by Carol Bellamy
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Realizing the Rights of the Child
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The State of the World's Children 2001
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Quotes by Carol Bellamy
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In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
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UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.
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Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.
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For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
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In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
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Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.
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Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.
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