UNICEF

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</div><div><h1 class="h1" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 50px; margin: 0px 0px 9px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One billion children at ‘extremely high risk’ of the impacts of the climate crisis - UNICEF</h1><h3 class="sub-title center" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Children in the Central African Republic, Chad, and Nigeria are among the most at risk of climate change, according to UNICEF’s first child-focused climate risk index.</h3></div><div>=</div></div><div>=
<div>omg [booktv wacko on schools sexualize kids?]</div><div>
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</div><div>Tuesday, people walking by UNICEF's headquarters in Manhattan were met with a strange sight: A group of protesters accusing the venerable United Nations children's welfare organization of harboring a shadowy pedophile agenda. They held professionally printed signs reading "UNICEF Sexualizing Children" and "Shame on UNICEF" while Sharon Slater, the head of a group called Family Watch International, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/familywatch/videos/1915927391751417/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">accused the organization</a> of "a hidden agenda that nobody knows about: to sexualize children."One could be forgiven for dismissing these protesters as raving wingnuts spouting an outlandish conspiracy theory. Peter Montgomery, <a href="https://www.pfaw.org/spokespeople/peter-montgomery/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a senior fellow at People for the American Way</a>, says it's more complicated than that.<div id="TeadsNative" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I don’t think people should take them lightly or laugh them off, as if they’re some fringe group," he told Salon. "Sharon Slater is very active at the UN, in partnership with other religious right groups that are active internationally.“They’re happily working with the world’s most oppressive regimes to protect ‘traditional family values’ around gender and sexuality and family," he added, pointing out <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/anti-gay-activism-trumps-religious-freedom-at-un-family-event/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">that Family Watch International has partnered with repressive nations</a> like Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran to hold events at the United Nations.Tuesday's protest was being held to denounce UNICEF's support for comprehensive sex education, as part of Family Watch International's larger war against sex ed around the world. The campaign even has a website, <a href="https://www.comprehensivesexualityeducation.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">StopCSE.org</a>, which uses lurid language to scare parents away from sex education programs that include information about consent, safety and diversity."Most CSE programs promote acceptance of diverse sexual identities and orientations and have an almost obsessive focus on sexual pleasure," the site says, "instructing children and youth at the earliest ages on how to obtain sexual pleasure in a variety of ways.""UNICEF believes that children should have access to accurate, factual, age-appropriate information about relationships as they transition to adulthood," Najwa Mekki, the media chief at UNICEF, told Salon. "This can help them make informed decisions about relationships and sexuality and navigate a world where gender-based violence, gender inequality, early and unintended pregnancies, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections pose serious risks to their health and well-being."If anyone in this conflict is obsessed with the issue of sexual pleasure, it might not be UNICEF. The materials Family Watch International provides to build its case against comprehensive sex education are centered on the idea that it's outrageous for educators to mention, in any way or at any time, that pleasure plays an important role in human sexuality. <a href="https://www.comprehensivesexualityeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/FWI-EVALUATION-of-Regional-Module-for-Teacher-Training-on-CSE-for-East-Southern-Africa-1.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">One Family Watch International pamphlet denounces</a> a teacher's guide for noting that "sexual fantasy is normal and also that one does not have to act upon sexual fantasies," and for describing a healthy sexual encounter as one where "both enjoy it."Refusing to mention pleasure in sex education seems like refusing to mention sound in a music theory class, but Salon turned to Debra Hauser, the president of <a href="https://www.advocatesforyouth.org/index.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Advocates for Youth</a> — a group Family Watch International repeatedly demonizes — for a more in-depth response.The pamphlet also denounces the course because it "normalizes oral and anal sex." Examples of this include the teaching guide stating that young people "need accurate health information about all forms of sexual intercourse — vaginal, oral, and anal."Hauser agreed that "it's obvious" to young people "that people have sex beyond just reproduction," and that young people "can sense it" if adults are disingenuous about this. “If you’re not telling the full truth to young people, you can alienate them in a way that they won’t hear anything else," she said, explaining why the courses her group promotes answer kids' questions about orgasm, masturbation and sexual practices beyond penis-in-vagina-to-make-a-baby intercourse. Hauser also noted that if the concern is safety, then it's of paramount importance that adults don't pretend that sexual pleasure is irrelevant to sex education. It's impossible, she argued, to teach kids about sexual consent without talking about what they want and explaining that sexual activity should be pleasurable."The research is incredibly clear," Hauser said. "The provision of sex education doesn’t hasten the onset of sexual activity, [and] doesn’t increase the amount of sexual activity young people have."Slater has spent years peddling the bizarre notion that kids will develop no interest in sex if adults never tell them that sex feels good. In 2016, for instance, <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sharon-slater-sex-ed-is-planned-parenthood-plot-to-make-money-off-hiv-treatments-condoms/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">she argued that Planned Parenthood was orchestrating</a> "an intentional, targeted effort to get to your children and change the way they think about sexuality, to encourage them to engage in sexual activity" because it's "a business that makes money off ... condoms, abortions, contraception, STD treatment, HIV treatment."In fact, <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2012/sex-education-linked-delay-first-sex" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">sex education is linked to a delay in first intercourse with young people</a>, probably because, contrary to Slater's relentless propaganda, teens are interested in sex even without their gym coach telling them what a condom is.The anti-UNICEF campaign also has heavy overtones of homophobia. That's no surprise for Family Watch International, which was declared <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/family-watch-international" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center</a> because of Slater's history of supporting activists and politicians around the world who work to criminalize homosexuality. She argues that the threat of imprisonment will encourage LGBT people to "get therapy for unwanted same-sex attraction."Slater may be a nutcase and a conspiracy theorist, but unfortunately she's one with a lot of pull. <a href="https://www.politicalresearch.org/profiles-on-the-right-sharon-slater/#sthash.zAqUpfeF.oyncdOL2.dpbs" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">She's tight with Pastor Martin Ssempa of Uganda</a>, the fundamentalist Christian behind that nation's "kill the gays" bill, passed in 2009. In 2016, <a href="https://www.politicalresearch.org/2016/11/14/international-backlash-the-religious-right-at-the-un/#sthash.QyqVOj9K.1o5TJh1b.dpbs" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Slater organized a group of 22 lobbyists</a> to exert pressure on the UN's Commission on the Status of Women, where they argued for removing language about sexual rights and sexual orientation. And Donald Trump appointed Slater's close associate, Austin Ruse, as <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-names-c-fam-heritage-to-us-delegation-to-un-commission-on-status-of-women/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">part of a delegation to the 2017 commission meeting.</a>At least one of Slater's stranger conspiracy theories has taken hold among American conservatives. Along with Ruse, she has been the primary driver behind <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/planned-parenthood-did-not-teach-girl-scouts-how-to-lead-happy-sex-lives-while-living-with-hiv/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the rumor that the Girl Scouts work with Planned Parenthood</a> to recruit girls to have sex with each other and become lesbians. This ludicrous urban legend has spread like wildfire, rearing its head on social media every year during the Girl Scout cookie drive, causing the organization no end of headaches.Slater initially expressed interest in speaking with Salon about her views, but then her team stopped replying to emails.“They view the culture war as global," Montgomery said of Family Watch International and their partner groups, such as <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/c-fam/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ruse's C-Fam</a>. "This campaign against UNICEF is part of their broader campaign against comprehensive sex ed, LGBT equality, and reproductive health and rights."He suggested that one reason the Family Watch International campaign has gone global is because, "in the United States, they’ve largely lost the battle of public opinion," especially on the subject of LGBT rights. By creating relationships with reactionary leaders all over the world — including Russian President Vladimir Putin — the group hopes "to give credibility to these traditionalist religious values, I think in hopes that it will eventually come back and help them in the United States." These days, unfortunately, it has an ally in the White House. Amanda Marcotte is a politics writer for Salon. =https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/18/headlines/un_agency_for_palestinians_appeals_for_funds_as_us_slashes_contributionsomgMeanwhile, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees made an urgent appeal for funds Wednesday, after the Trump administration canceled $65 million in annual contributions to the agency, known as UNRWA. In Gaza, residents say they could soon starve unless international donors step up to fill the funding gap left by President Trump.
Fathiya Abed al-Jawad: “We will be lost. It will be a catastrophe. People will be stealing from each other. We will live in a catastrophe. We will suffer to provide food and wheat. People will kill each other.”
Naim Hamad: “What should I do? Should I go sell one of my kids or sell my kidney? What should I do? Should I go and steal or work as a spy? I need cooking oil, yogurt, eggs and bread.”------  
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF</a>

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/ˈjuːnᵻsɛf/</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key" class="mw-redirect">EW-ni-sef</a>)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#cite_note-1">[1]</a> is a United Nations program headquartered in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> that provides long-term <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitarianism" title="Humanitarianism">humanitarian</a> and developmental assistance to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child" title="Child">children</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother" title="Mother">mothers</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country" title="Developing country">developing countries</a>. It is one of the members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Development_Group" title="United Nations Development Group">United Nations Development Group</a> and its Executive Committee.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#cite_note-2">[2]</a>

UNICEF was created by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">United Nations General Assembly</a> on December 11, 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Pate" title="Maurice Pate">Maurice Pate</a>, American humanitarian and businessman, co-founded the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" title="Herbert Hoover">Herbert Hoover</a> in 1947. Pate served as its first executive director from 1947 until his death in 1965.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#cite_note-3">[3]</a> In 1953, UNICEF became a permanent part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_System" title="United Nations System">United Nations System</a> and its name was shortened from the original United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund but it has continued to be known by the popular <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and_initialism" title="Acronym and initialism" class="mw-redirect">acronym</a> based on this previous title.

UNICEF relies on contributions from governments and private donors, UNICEF's total income for 2008 was $3,372,540,239.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#cite_note-unicef-4">[4]</a>

Governments contribute two thirds of the organization's resources;

private groups and some 6 million individuals contribute the rest

through the National Committees. It is estimated that 91.8% of their

revenue is distributed to Program Services.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#cite_note-5">[5]</a>

UNICEF's programs emphasize developing community-level services to

promote the health and well-being of children. UNICEF was awarded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize">Nobel Peace Prize</a> in 1965 and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Asturias_Awards" title="Prince of Asturias Awards" class="mw-redirect">Prince of Asturias Award</a> of Concord in 2006.

Most of UNICEF's work is in the field, with staff in over 190

countries and territories. More than 200 country offices carry out

UNICEF's mission through a program developed with host governments.

Seventeen regional offices provide technical assistance to country

offices as needed.

Overall management and administration of the organization takes place

at its headquarters in New York. UNICEF's Supply Division is based in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen" title="Copenhagen">Copenhagen</a> and serves as the primary point of distribution for such essential items as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccines" title="Vaccines" class="mw-redirect">vaccines</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiretroviral_drug" title="Antiretroviral drug" class="mw-redirect">antiretroviral medicines</a> for children and mothers with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV" title="HIV">HIV</a>, nutritional supplements, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_shelter" title="Emergency shelter">emergency shelters</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Tracing_and_Reunification" title="Family Tracing and Reunification">family reunification</a>,

educational supplies, among others. A 36-member Executive Board

establishes policies, approves programs and oversees administrative and

financial plans. The Executive Board is made up of government

representatives who are elected by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Economic_and_Social_Council" title="United Nations Economic and Social Council">United Nations Economic and Social Council</a>, usually for three-year terms.
Recent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_director" title="Executive director">executive directors</a> of UNICEF include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Bellamy" title="Carol Bellamy">Carol Bellamy</a> (1995–2005), a former head of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Corps" title="Peace Corps">Peace Corps</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Veneman" title="Ann Veneman">Ann Veneman</a> (2005-2010), a former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Agriculture" title="United States Secretary of Agriculture">United States Secretary of Agriculture</a> whose mandate included increasing the organization's focus on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Development_Goals" title="Millennium Development Goals">Millennium Development Goals</a>. Since 2010, the current Executive Director of UNICEF has been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Lake" title="Anthony Lake">Anthony Lake</a>, a former US <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Advisor_%28United_States%29" title="National Security Advisor (United States)">National Security Advisor</a>.

UNICEF is an intergovernmental organization (IGO) and thus is

accountable to those governments. UNICEF’s salary and benefits package<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#cite_note-6">[6]</a> is based on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_System#United_Nations_common_system" title="United Nations System">United Nations Common System</a>.

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#UNICEF_National_Committees">1 UNICEF National Committees</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#Promotion_and_fundraising">2 Promotion and fundraising</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#Sponsorship">3 Sponsorship</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#Trick-or-Treat_UNICEF_box">3.1 Trick-or-Treat UNICEF box</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#Cartoons_for_Children.27s_Rights">3.2 Cartoons for Children's Rights</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#Corporate_partnership">3.3 Corporate partnership</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#Corporate_Social_Responsibility">3.4 Corporate Social Responsibility</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#Girl_Star">3.5 Girl Star</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#Celebrity_Ambassadors">4 Celebrity Ambassadors</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#Facilities">5 Facilities</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#UNICEF_World_Warehouse">5.1 UNICEF World Warehouse</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#UNICEF_Innocenti_Research_Centre">5.2 UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#Controversies">6 Controversies</a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#NSA_surveillance">6.1 NSA surveillance</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#Adoption_program">6.2 Adoption program</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#Effectiveness">6.3 Effectiveness</a></li></ul>

</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#See_also">7 See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#References">8 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#External_links">9 External links</a></li></ul>

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<h2>UNICEF National Committees</h2>

<div class="hatnote">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UNICEF_National_Committees" title="List of UNICEF National Committees">List of UNICEF National Committees</a></div>

There are National Committees in 36 [industrialized] countries worldwide, each established as an independent local <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization">non-governmental organization</a>. The National Committees raise funds from the private sector.

UNICEF is funded exclusively by voluntary contributions,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICEF#cite_note-7">[7]</a>

and the National Committees collectively raise around one-third of

UNICEF's annual income. This comes through contributions from

corporations, civil society organizations around 6 million individual

donors worldwide. They also rally many different partners – including

the media, national and local government officials, NGOs, specialists

such as doctors and lawyers, corporations, schools, young people and the

general public – on issues related to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%E2%80%99s_rights" title="Children’s rights" class="mw-redirect">children’s rights</a>.

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