Talk:UNICEF

message: I think that the fashion designers that support and have partnerships with UNICEF should be added like  Gucci, Prada, and Armani. A percentage of their sales from certain products go to benefit the United Nation's Children's Fund. Cajoiner (talk) 19:04, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Fundraising and Partnerships/Supports

message: Anyone know what work they do around the world in more detail?the work is going on very well -Unsigned
:The lack of information on this wikipedia page is quite shocking! It doesn't give any idea about the number of people it's working with, but it does give a lot of criticisms... 82.41.200.77 (talk) 08:22, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Part of their world wide world can be seen on Sankaku Complex. I think this info must be added to Criticism section.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Linda Kaioh (talk • contribs) 06:07, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Work in world

message: A poll as to whether or not the language template should be included in this article is being conducted at Talk:United_Nations_Commission_on_Human_Rights#Poll Raul654 19:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Language template poll

message: After visiting the UNICEF web site, both American and British date formats can be found.--Jusjih 09:27, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Inconsistent date formats at the UNICEF web site

message: Ann Veneman's appointment as Executive Director of UNICEF is disturbing. In a Nation article, Now Bush is Picking On Kids, John Nichols wrote, "the notion that Veneman would be placed in a position to decide how to feed and care for the planet's most destitute children is every bit as alarming as the notion that Wolfowitz would be charged with providing aid to developing countries." Earlier, Nichols explained why Ann Veneman was "Perhaps Bush's Most Dangerous Cabinet Pick." The Nation. Common Dreams.
Maude Barlow: "As a negotiator of NAFTA, (Veneman) helped consolidate neo-liberal policies that plunged millions of children into poverty... A far-right conservative who will put profit for American corporations above the health and safety of the world's children is a disastrous choice to head Unicef." Too Close For Comfort, p. 249
Democracy Now! (video, audio, and transcript): "Agriculture Secretary Veneman's Tenure Marked By Anthrax Scare, Trade Disputes, and Mad Cow Disease"
New York Times: "In the case of mad cow disease, there were early accusations that the government was playing down the threat to protect the beef industry. The secretary of agriculture when the first case was found, Ann M. Veneman, was a former food industry lobbyist, her critics noted, and her chief spokeswoman's last job had been press representative for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association."
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Reuben Apple (talk • contribs) 03:53, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Current Executive Director, Ann Veneman

message: Title.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.132.56.202 (talk) 17:50, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. --65.78.213.134 (talk) 03:07, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Shouldn't we change the name to "United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund"? 

message: Title makes me look like a crazy, but a report was done in 2003 by the Globe and Mail (most read Canadian newspaper) in which UNICEF was found to have funded Palestinian summer camps where kids were being trained in terrorism.  One of the camps UNICEF paid for was named after the first female suicide bomber.  The G&M article is gone, but there's a report from the Anti-Defamation League .  I don't mean to politicize this page, and clearly UNICEF also does a lot of good, but it's probably worth a mention in the article. 67.193.131.167 (talk) 02:21, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: So what happened after this request of UNICEF was made? What action did UNICEF take? If none, what follow up did ADL take? Kingturtle (talk) 12:01, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

text: My first time posting on wikipedia talk, did a little research and found a couple links pertaining to this;
(http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/222642/tricked-unicef/dave-kopel)
(http://web.archive.org/web/20120305215632/http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/827)
== Public criticism ==
[This section needs to severely better meet the standards of Wikipedia. It is biased, unclear, and written in a personal style rather than a technical or reference style.]
I don't understand why UNICEF's "adherence to the 1990 Convention on the Rights of the Child" would be a source of criticism. Is it that it fails to adhere? Could somebody explain please? supercriminal (talk) 19:21, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

text: If we cannot find why/if there is notable public criticism, then remove. Babakathy (talk) 17:30, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

text: And who criticises UNICEF for being against the sale/marketting of milk substitute in hospitals (except the manufacturers of said products)? Babakathy (talk) 17:30, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unicef's funding of terrorist training camps

message: Under the Corporate Partnership section, the third sentence is just kind of thrown in as an afterthought and not really relevant to the section heading at all, in my opinion. It adds that UNICEF's CEO, who is unnamed, allegedly earns $1.2 million a year, plus the use of a "Royal Royce for HIS* exclusive use wherever HE* goes, and an expense account that is rumoured to be well over $150,000. *Information I have found indicates the CEO is a she. I am also unaware of what a "Royal Royce" is, assuming the author meant a Rolls Royce. It goes on to state that less then $0.14 of each dollar donated is used for it's actual charity work. None of this factual information is cited, and furthermore I believe it ALL to be wrong, based on my information. UNICEF's United States branch is required to submit it's financial breakdown to the United States government for public review. That information can be found here: Charity Navigator. The CEO, Caryl M. Stern, is reportedly compensated $419,832, not the $1.2 million currently stated in this article. And other sources I have found indicate that the actual amount of each dollar brought in that is used in charity work is higher than the $0.14 listed in this article. Most sources agree on about $0.39, with UNICEF themselves claiming 95% goes to charity directly.
The most interesting part of all this is I managed to find where the author of this section found his or her information. From a website called Urban Legends. You can see it, and the exact copy paste of the text used in this section of the article, WITHOUT the author citing the source he/she copied it verbatim from, here: Urban Legends. The actual copied section is not very far down on the page, and under a heading called "2010 Example". The source for this is not cited, and is claimed to be the text of an email sent by an unknown person to someone, presumably, at this Urban Legends website. We also see where the "Royal Royce" mistake originated from.
I don't think Wikipedia should be copy-pasting, without citing the source, it's factual information from a site called Urban Legends. Just doesn't seem like a sound, factual source for financial information. Once I can find a reliable, credible source for the particulars on how much of every dollar donated goes to charity, I will correct this erroneous information. While UNICEF USA does provide information on it's finances to the government on that page I cited, it doesn't break it down for us to display what exactly goes into the claimed 95% of revenue going to charity. It could easily be listing fuel costs, etc under that section which isn't entirely honest in my opinion. Heimdallen (talk) 06:45, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corporate Partnership 

message: Actually the first football club to have the unicef logo on its shirts it has been the Catanzaro fotball club in 1982 (http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catanzaro_Football_Club), i'm not sure if they have an agreement with the unicef or no.
For what i know the first football club to have an agreement with the unicef it has been the Piacenza calcio in 2001 (http://www.unicef.it/doc/174/piacenza-calcio)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.104.217.12 (talk) 12:03, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sponsorship 

message: Don't know if its true; but messages about her salary being $1million plus per year plus use of a Rolls Royce. Any way to check the salary data of UNICEF management?--Tomwsulcer (talk) 20:17, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Only thing I could find is this link to a UNICEF site but I did not find Stern's salary information; it only said that the rumors circulating were not true.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 20:28, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Facebook messages circulating about Unicef CEO Carol M. Stern salary 

message: I think this page is very unbiased, but it should contain a little more information. There have been numerous recent scandals associated with UNICEF. It apparently funded terrorist summer camps for children. This is not included in the "criticism" category, and maybe it should be  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.80.201.216 (talk) 18:27, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I would love to see evidence of this. --Gary Dell'Abate (talk) 00:46, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  UNICEF corruption 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: According to their website, back when the name was shortened from UN International Children's Emergency Fund, it was changed to UN Children's Fund, not Children's 'Emergency' Fund as this page suggests, and still goes by that shorter name today. Should this be corrected?
http://www.unicef.org/about/who/index_faq.html Kb.au (talk) 00:46, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Full name doesn't include Emergency 

message: The English transliteration in the intro is inconsistent with the IPA. It would need to be  to match; otherwise, we could change the IPA to . 192.235.30.56 (talk) 16:26, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation conflict 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: I added back the text of the section "Digital Age Assurance Tools and Children's Rights Online across the Globe report" which was almost completely changed by an editor without any valid explanation. The text is sourced. It reads: 
:Digital Age Assurance Tools and Children's Rights Online across the Globe report
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:::In 2021, UNICEF published a report called Digital Age Assurance Tools and Children’s Rights Online across the Globe, which some have interpreted as minimizing the effect of pornography on children. The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), along with 487 child safety experts and advocates from 26 countries, sent UNICEF a letter expressing concerns about the report and sharing data about the harms of pornography exposure to children. In response to the controversy, UNICEF pulled down the report. The fact-checking website Snopes argued that misleading headlines had distorted the report about digital tools and human rights."
Information about the letter by The National Center on Sexual Exploitation and 487 child safety experts and advocates from 26 countries was removed by an editor, which seems to be unjustified censorship of relevant info. The POV of Snopes must remain, but the section cannot be only about Snopes, as it is WP:POV and WP:UNDUE to only present their views, especially without context; and removing other sourced info is unacceptable. 2A02:2F0F:B204:C400:75AE:B02F:8DAB:6656 (talk) 20:51, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whitewashing and POV pushing 

message: Early in the article, after talking about Trick or Treat for UNICEF, it says that it was outlawed in Canada. Later in the article it goes on to say how much Canada and the U.S. has currently made from it. I’m confused, is it outlawed or not? Maybe we could make this clearer. RyanMarder (talk) 15:49, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trick or Treat for UNICEF