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UNICEF: A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING

UNICEF was established in 1946 to provide emergency help to the child victims of World War II. Its work expanded to 150 countries in which it undertook activities in the areas of health care, nutrition, education, water and sanitation.

However, hidden behind this noble front, UNICEF is gradually changing into a voracious wolf pouncing on and irrevocably destroying, innocent children in its path. This change has become greatly accelerated since 1995 when Carol Bellamy, a New York politician and lesbian feminist appointed at the behest of then U.S. President Bill Clinton, became Executive Director of UNICEF.

The fact that UNICEF has departed significantly from its central mission of protecting poor children from disease, hunger and death, was pointed out in a series of articles published in the prestigious British Medical Journal, the Lancet in 2002, by an organization of scientists called the Bellagio Study Group on Child Survival. In these articles, the group criticized UNICEF because the momentum for child survival set by UNICEF has slowed or even reversed in recent years due to the change in direction of the organization - a change that is costing children's lives.

UNICEF's New Direction

More and more evidence is now available to show that UNICEF is promoting programmes advancing population control and the sexual and reproductive rights of children. Examples of this include the following:

• UNICEF funded a South African organization called loveLife that encourages children to engage in sexual and homosexual behaviour, and to have abortions without their parents knowledge or consent.
  
  According to its website, loveLife encourages adolescent girls to more abortions and provides them with the toll free number for an abortion clinic - a procedure it describes as a "gentle suction" - without telling her parents. After the abortion, loveLife recommends that boyfriend and girlfriend should "celebrate together," and have sex "gently." According to loveLife, a girl will "feel a sense of relief" after the abortion.
  
  With regard to homosexuality, lovelife says "Some people prefer not to limit their horny feelings to only half the population. They'll fall in love with whoever feels right - male or female. Why let body parts limit the power of love?" loveLife also states "most people fall in love with someone of the same sex at least once in their lives."
  
  loveLife's descriptions of sexual acts are especially graphic and will offend most parents and will be considered pornographic to many. After a detailed description of masturbation, loveLife advises "all you would-be super-lovers out there, start practicing."



• UNICEF funded manuals directed at Latin American teens advising children about sexual activities with other minors, homosexuals and animals. The manuals expose its pro-abortion agenda. In one of the manuals for mothers and teens, it provides the following guidance:
  
  Situations in which you can obtain sexual pleasure: 1. Masturbation. 2. Sexual relations with a partner - whether heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual. 3. A sexual response that is directed toward inanimate objects, animals, minors, non-consenting persons …



• UNICEF funded a programme run by the Population Council, the pro-abortion group that holds the U.S. patent for the abortion pill RU-486. Goals of this programme include promoting abortion services and the "managing [of] unwanted pregnancies" by way of abortion.



• In June 2003, at an Executive Board meeting of UNICEF, a high-ranking UNICEF official, Urban Jonsson, a director for a UNICEF African region, called for the legalization of prostitution, and for UNICEF to make condoms available "for everybody everywhere and at all times." He also spoke in support of the unionization of sex workers, claiming this would place them in a stronger position to negotiate safer sex with their clients.
  
  This, however, is wishful thinking on his part, as prostitutes in countries like Thailand or Africa are virtual slaves in their brothels making any negotiation for condom use impossible. Nor is condom use a solution in the reduction of AIDS infections.



• UNICEF is deeply immersed in feminism, attempting to boost school enrollment for girls but not boys. This is true even in Latin America and the Caribbean, where girls' enrollment is higher than boys.
  
  Ms. Bellamy, Executive Director of UNICEF, in April 2003, proposed special assistance be given only to women and children as a response to South Africa's pandemic, particularly HIV/AIDS, on the basis according to Ms. Bellamy, "that women are the lifeline in African countries and require special assistance." This proposal, however, violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which prohibits sex discrimination. Her proposal also implies that African men are more or less useless and lazy, and ignores the substantially higher death rates for men than for women in Africa. In fact, it is men who suffer war-related injuries and deaths and young boys who are being conscripted into military service. Also, the health disparities in Africa favour women over men.

In its slick sophisticated Annual Reports in 2001 and 2002 in which Ms. Bellamy's photograph is prominently displayed, UNICEF talks charmingly about its goals of reducing infant and maternal mortality, reducing malnutrition and educating children, etc. - but not a word about its "other" agenda. Apparently the public is not supposed to know about it.

The third world is definitely not clamouring for a Western-inspired feminist cultural revolution promoted by Ms. Bellamy through her office at UNICEF. Despite its deceptive Annual Reports, children's survival no longer appears to be top priority for UNICEF. Rather, it has become a vehicle to promote controversial pro-abortion programmes and propaganda to detrimentally change the lives of innocent children. UNICEF is a tragedy.

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