UNICEF funding threatened in U.S.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- UNICEF UNICEF (y  `nĭsĕf'), the United Nations Children's Fund, an affiliated agency of the United Nations. , the United Nations' best known agency, is facing a funding threat. The threat is led by the u.s. based Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, a conservative religious organization that successfully caused the White House to withhold $34 million from the U.N. Population Fund in 2000 by claiming the fund was complicit com·plic·it adj. Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime; having complicity: newspapers complicit with the propaganda arm of a dictatorship. in China's forced abortion policy. The Institute launched its attack on UNICEF in a document, The United Nations Children's Fund United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), an affiliated agency of the United Nations. It was established in 1946 as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. : Women or Children First?. The document claims the agency is being taken over by radical feminists led by executive director Carol Bellamy. The Institute concludes in its report that "it will be necessary for donors, both individuals and nations to demand changes at UNICEF. Donor nations, most especially the United States, must take a closer look at how their money is being spent by UNICEF." Last year UNICEF received $282 million from the U.S. government and private donors. "UNICEF has moved beyond such simple and universally acceptable, programs like the provision of iodized salt iodized salt contains 200 mg potassium iodate per kg of salt. and immunizations," by providing educational materials about sex in UNICEF-supported programs around the world and by placing a greater emphasis on the education of girls, who are least likely to go to school. Bellamy; who was appointed for her second five-year term in 2000 is more insistent in promoting children's and women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and , arguing that without healthy, educated women, children will continue to suffer helplessly in the poorest nations. UNICEF has continued to engage in inoculations and feeding of children. Bellamy, along with the World Bank and other private aid agencies, argue that without improvement in women's lives, birth rates will continue to rise, children will not attend school, child disease will persist and younger and younger children will be vulnerable to a myriad of abuses, including slave labour and HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. infection through forced sex and prostitution. |
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