Carol Bellamy
Carol Bellamy
Carol Bellamyis presently the Chair of the Board of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fundand has been Director of the Peace Corps, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund, and President and CEO of World Learning. In April 2009, Bellamy was appointed as Chair of the International BaccalaureateBoard of Governors. Between 2010 and 2013, Carol Bellamy was the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Global Partnership for Education. Bellamy is a member of the Board of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth14 January 1942
CountryUnited States of America
Girls Scouts taught me to succeed (cookie selling) and to fail (knot tying) and to learn and benefit from both.
We stand at an historic moment in the struggle to end the anguish that these weapons have already inflicted on tens of thousands of the world's children, their families and their communities,
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.
I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war.
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.
The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its utility can be seen in the everyday use to which I have seen it increasingly being put by country after country, in policy, in practice and in law.
Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.
UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.
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.
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.
Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make