Jennifer M. Morris

The Origins of UNICEF, 1946-1953 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Origins of UNICEF traces the history of the founding of the world's most well-known and often controversial relief aid organization for children. UNICEF modeled itself after several national organizations as well as some of the early twentieth-century transnational and international relief aid organizations, catering to a clientele that many observers claimed would be impossible to resist or ignore. In only a few years, UNICEF's programs provided relief aid to millions of children in locations around the globe, but the atmosphere of post-war cooperation, quickly supplanted by Cold War tensions, caused UNICEF's efforts to be scrutinized lest they be too closely aligned with either the United States or the Soviet Bloc. UNICEF remains one of the most highly regarded and effective child relief-aid organizations in the world. The story of its founding and its first years as an aid organization provide insight into how an international, apolitical, philanthropic organization must maneuver through political and cultural tensions in order to achieve its goal of mitigating human suffering.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739176252
• Artikelnr.: 42889854

Autorenporträt

Jennifer M. Morris is associate professor of European, world, and women's history at Mount St. Joseph University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Charity for Children
Chapter Two: Continuing the Tradition: The United Nations and Postwar
Relief for Children, 1946
Chapter Three: A Plan of Work
Chapter Four: Feeding Children
Chapter Five: Medical Treatment for Children
Chapter Six: Continuing the Work for Children