UNICEF, Beware, Dangerous Shoals Ahead

Publication Date: August 1983

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Roger A. Brooks

Research Area: International relations

Keywords: International organizations

Type: Report

Abstract:

UNICEF has sought primarily to focus the world's attention on the critical, basic needs of poor children and mothers in developing countries and to devise concrete ways of meeting those needs. In many areas in which it is now working--in monitoring the WHO/UNICEF Infant Formula Code and in helping to foster a radical consumerist movement through a UNICEF-NGO network--UNICEF is violating the spirit and perhaps the letter of its charter. It must not squander its resources on dubious political crusades. To do so will only exacerbate the enormous tragedy of 40,000 daily infant and child deaths in the developing world.