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	The Biography of Carol Bellamy
		Carol Bellamy was appointed Executive Director of the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) in 1995, following consultations with the UNICEF Executive Board, and reappointed to a second five-year term in 1999.
		Bellamy ran a school lunch programme and produced a radio show on health and nutrition in Spanish, which was broadcast in rural areas.
		Bellamy earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Gettysburg College in 1963, and graduated from New York University School of Law in 1968.
	www.un.org /News/ossg/sg/stories/bellamy_bio.html (282 words)

	UN Reform: Working for Children: print friendly meeting
		Carol Bellamy, indicated that fundamentally, the issue was a failure in leadership and that the continuation of these threats to childhood was a result of deliberate choices made by governments and others in positions of power.
		Carol Bellamy stated that she was pleased that UNICEF and the UN system had acted decisively in recent years to improve the way in which the challenges were addressed.
		Carol Bellamy emphasised that this would require resources and while the MDGs were better funded than any other initiative of recent times, supporting all low-income countries in filling their MDG financing gap would require donors to double today's ODA to GNP ratio for the period up to 2015.
	www.odi.org.uk /speeches/MDGs_2005/meeting_9Mar/print_friendly.html (1569 words)

	Wide Angle. Printable Pages \| PBS
		Carol Bellamy: Well, I actually thought, if there was a positive element in the film, it was a recognition by so many that education is a very important key for any kind of advancement, any reduction of poverty.
		Carol Bellamy: Well, I don't get frustrated because we work with kids, but it is extraordinary that we have entered the 21st century with one-sixth of the human population not able to read or write.
		Carol Bellamy: Well, people are absolutely shocked, the average person here in the United States, when they find out that the only two countries in the world that haven't ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child are Somalia and the United States.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/wideangle/printable/global_transcript_print.html (6403 words)

	UNICEF - About UNICEF: Who we are - Carol Bellamy
		Bellamy focused on five major priorities: immunizing every child; getting all girls and boys into school, and getting all schools to offer quality basic education; reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS and its impact on young people; fighting for the protection of children from violence and exploitation; and introducing early childhood programmes in every country.
		Bellamy's leadership, UNICEF became a champion of global investment in children, arguing that efforts to reduce poverty and build a more secure world can only be successful if they ensure that children have an opportunity to grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity.
		Carol Bellamy speaks to a girl who was displaced by the tsunami, at a crisis centre for orphans in the town of Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka.
	www.unicef.org /about/who/index_bio_bellamy.html (585 words)

	UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy
		Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, UNICEF: I'm not intimately familiar with the specific policies but clearly the best interests of the child - and that's the test under the convention on the rights of the child which Australia has ratified - would have the children be with their families and not in a form of detention.
		Carol Bellamy: First of all, if there is detention it ought to be for the shortest time possible for children.
		Carol Bellamy: What we do know is that being in a family circumstance is certainly much better than being in some kind of institution, whether that is in - we see children in institutions round the world, whether in eastern Europe or in Australia, so I don't know that you can have statistics exactly.
	seven.com.au /sundaysunrise/features_031109_bellamy (1293 words)

	Guide to the Carol Bellamy Papers1977-1985MSS 71Processed by Jenny Hillyer, 2000. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bellamy also showed great concern in the area of social services and was outspoken on such issues as care services for the elderly, the mentally ill, and foster children; also on teen pregnancy, health care costs, and women's issues.
		Bellamy was invited to give her speeches to organizations such as colleges, high schools, the Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations, conferences, Bar Associations, senior citizens' groups, Democratic National Party Conference panels, the Democratic National Convention, and various women's organizations.
		Bellamy's priorities also included services for the mentally ill; to this end, she lobbied for the reallocation of underutilized funds to provide for a full range of community services for the chronically mentally ill - both the homeless and those housed in SRO hotels.
	dlib.nyu.edu:8083 /falesead/servlet/SaxonServlet?source=/bellamy.xml&style=/saxon01f2002.xsl&part=body (1176 words)

	Europaworld 14/9/2001 : Carol Bellamy
		Carol Bellamy was born on 14 January 1942 - four years before the creation of the profoundly influential agency she was later to head.
		Carol Bellamy is its fourth Executive Director and as such, one of the most significant figures in the UN system.
		It is to be hoped that the skill, judgement and dedication that have shaped the many aspects of her career thus far will contribute to finding some lasting solutions to the these and other terrors that currently face the children of the world.
	www.europaworld.org /issue48/carolbellamy14901.htm (602 words)

	The woman who fights for the world's children - www.theage.com.au
		Carol Bellamy says she joined the Peace Corps because she wanted to change the world.
		Ms Bellamy is reticent, then almost casual when she talks about her face-to-face negotiations with fierce partisans, but it is easy to imagine her, sitting across a table, engaging them with her New York twang and humour.
		Ms Bellamy was elected to the New York state Senate three times in the 1970s, and was later the first woman to become city council president.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/11/07/1068013394962.html?from=storyrhs (873 words)

	7.30 Report - 06/01/2005: Unclear whether aid packages will meet the needs of children: UNICEF
		CAROL BELLAMY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, UNICEF): Well, I think Australia, once again, is demonstrating that it's prepared to assist, not only in financial assistance but also with true humanitarian aid.
		CAROL BELLAMY: Well, no, it's not clear, but I think that most of these countries have shown some interest in children in the past.
		CAROL BELLAMY: Well, for us the tsunami generation is that huge number of children who we now need to focus on - the children who are alive, who've come through this disaster and are alive.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2005/s1278357.htm (977 words)

	Carol Bellamy arrives as World Learning, SIT president - World Learning for International Development News
		In an interview with the Brattleboro Reformer, Bellamy said she was hesitant to list specific goals for her presidency, and that it is not her charge to change the institution, but to help it evolve in a changing environment.
		Bellamy also told the Reformer that since she was named to World Learning's top post, she began meeting graduates of SIT -- many of whom were colleagues of hers at UNICEF.
		Before working at UNICEF, Bellamy was director of the Peace Corps, for which she volunteered in Guatemala from 1963 to 1965, and became the first former volunteer to run the organization.
	www.worldlearning.org /news/2005/bellamy_arrives.html (305 words)

	International Campaign for Tibet: Tibet News: UNICEF Chief Gets First Hand Look at Health and Education Deficit in Tibet
		The Executive Director of UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Carol Bellamy, who completed a two-day inspection trip to Tibet on August 31, has said that much work needs to be done to improve the health and education of women and children to catch up with the situation in China.
		Bellamy emphasized the need to ensure that girls education was attended to and stressed the need to converge UNICEF support in health and education in the same communities.
		Bellamy, who travelled to the Shannan prefecture of Tibet yesterday and met with a delegation of health and education officials, was today visiting village households, schools and health facilities in various counties.
	www.savetibet.org /news/newsitem.php?id=650&printable=yes (1185 words)

	World Affairs Council - Washington, DC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Carol Bellamy wistfully recalled a conversation she had with two young boys on a recent trip to Liberia.
		Bellamy put particular emphasis on the fact that though poverty remains the foundation for lost childhoods, there are other obstacles, including civil conflicts, where child soldiers are often “recruited” for combat.
		Bellamy was also extremely vocal about the fact that the “ABC” method of protection (Abstinence-Be Faithful-Use a Condom), often advocated by the Bush administration, becomes increasingly obsolete when applied to the thousands of child cases.
	www.worldaffairsdc.org /Main.asp?sid=15&nxt=&recr=&iPressID=175 (1005 words)

	Bates College \| Carol Bellamy biography
		Previously she was a managing director at Bear Stearns and Co., a principal at Morgan Stanley, and an associate in the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore.
		In 1978 Bellamy was elected the first woman president of the New York City Council, a position she held until 1985, and she earlier served five years in the New York State Senate.
		Born and raised in the New York area, Bellamy is a Mets fan.
	www.bates.edu /x34832.xml (237 words)

	Newswise
		Carol Bellamy, director of UNICEF since 1995, and a respected voice in the international community, will speak at the 2005 Exercises of Commencement at Grinnell College on Monday, May 23, 2005.
		Newswise — Carol Bellamy, director of the United Nations Children’s Fund since 1995, and a respected voice in the international community, will speak at the 2005 Exercises of Commencement at Grinnell College on Monday, May 23, 2005.
		Under Bellamy’s leadership, UNICEF has become a champion of global investment in children, arguing that efforts to reduce poverty and build a more secure world can only be successful if they ensure that children have an opportunity to grow to adulthood in health, peace, and dignity.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view/511101 (326 words)

	Bates College \| Carol Bellamy degree citation
		Carol Bellamy exemplifies the very best in what we expect from a person educated in the liberal arts tradition: an inventive thinker, an ethically grounded public servant, a persuasive leader devoted to improving society.
		Bellamy brought her considerable talents, experience, and commitment to social justice to the United Nations Children's Fund.
		Bellamy has skillfully harnessed the collective energy and resources of the world's governments, non-governmental organizations, and individuals by articulating the moral imperative of all nations to protect and nurture children.
	www.bates.edu /x34865.xml (383 words)

	UNICEF's Bellamy lectures
		So said Carol Bellamy, executive director of UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) and Cornell's 2002 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow, to a group of Cornell students, faculty and staff on Monday afternoon, March 4.
		As the 25 working group members explained their approach to Bellamy, David Pelletier, director and principal investigator of the Cornell RTK Project and professor of nutrition policy, explained that PAR addresses social problems within their local contexts, unlike much social science research that is acontextual.
		Prior to that, she was the director of the U.S. Peace Corps, served five years in the New York State Senate (1973-1977) and in 1978, became the first woman president of the New York City Council, a position she held until 1985.
	www.news.cornell.edu /http://www.new/Chronicle/02/3.7.02/Bellamy.html (718 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy to visit Gaza City and Israel
		Bellamy, the head of the world's largest children's right organization will have the chance to listen, to observe, and to express solidarity with children for whom living in conflict has become part of their daily lives.
		Bellamy is expected to bring up access problems - whether its children and teachers not able to get to class on time because of checkpoints or curfews, or whether its UNICEF staff not being able to access the worst affected areas.
		Bellamy shows a keen interest in the municipal council - especially the opportunity it provides to keep children participating and making a difference in their immediate surroundings.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/2e3f96a667266cf3c1256ea7002c0108 (558 words)

	Head of UN Children's Fund Carol Bellamy retires
		TONY EASTLEY: As she prepares to leave her job as head of the UN Children's Fund, Carol Bellamy says the world is probably no better for children today than it was 10 years ago when she took up the job with UNICEF.
		Ms Bellamy, who's about to be succeeded by one of the US President, George W, Bush's first-term Cabinet Secretaries, made a series of self-critical comments on the eve of a UNICEF meeting in Cambodia that will highlight a multitude of problems facing children in developing countries.
		CAROL BELLAMY: We are a rights based organisation and I think this is the way to go.
	www.sacredchoices.org /News_Tracker/head_of_UN_Childrens_Fund_Carol_Bellamy_retires.htm (464 words)

	Global Immunization in Development and Foreign Policy - Council on Foreign Relations
		And Carol Bellamy for 10 years has been the executive director of UNICEF, which is responsible I believe for 40 percent of all child vaccinations in the world, meaning that the wealthy world takes care of itself.
		BELLAMY: Well, one of the issues is that there is always this confusion between GAVI as some new thing, and when it’s made up of old things who are operating in the other.
		And, by the way, Carol Bellamy was being very modest: UNICEF has taken an extraordinary leadership role on this issue, because today 70 percent of injections given to children— immunizations— are safe, because the technology won’t allow the syringes to be reused.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=7489 (9095 words)

	After 10 years at the helm, a controversial new UNICEF \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bellamy's approach jibes with contemporary international-development theory, advanced by the UN and others, which suggests that providing women and girls with access to better healthcare and education may drive economies toward prosperity.
		Bellamy, a Clinton appointee and former New York politician, Wall Street lawyer and banker, and director of the Peace Corps, will be replaced by Ann Veneman, secretary of Agriculture during Mr.
		Bellamy defenders suggest the preoccupation with results for children under 5 ignores those ages 6 through 18, or the inequity between boys and girls around the world.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0429/p07s01-wogi.html (953 words)

	News Releases :: U.S. Fund for UNICEF - UNICEF USA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bellamy made restoring schooling in emergencies a hallmark of UNICEF's work, recognizing that getting children back into a learning environment as soon as possible allows children to be children again and gives them a friendly space to escape from the hardships and chaos they have endured.
		Bellamy embraced education of all children as the key to facing the threats such as those posed by HIV/AIDS, exploitation and extreme poverty.
		UNICEF's focus on ensuring girls' right to education was a reflection of Bellamy's belief that by addressing and advocating for children's rights, it was possible not only to tackle the root causes of such things as child mortality and disease, but also to effect lasting improvements in the lives of future generations of children.
	www.unicefusa.org /site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=duLRI8O0H&b=33260&ct=787035 (980 words)

	Interview with Carol Bellamy: A Forceful Voice for the Children of the Tsunami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bellamy, a veteran of New York politics, into the public spotlight in a way unparalleled during her 10 years at Unicef.
		Bellamy, who turns 63 today, seems to be everywhere, appearing all over the news media as well as on the ground in the battered region.
		Bellamy says her biggest worry now is the issue of trauma on the children.
	www.peacewomen.org /news/International/Jan05/CarolBellamy.html (980 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Have Your Say \| Ask the head of UNAids
		From New York we're joined by Carol Bellamy, the head of the United Nations children's agency UNICEF and here with me in the studio in London is the actress Gillian Anderson who is an active campaigner in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
		Carol Bellamy in New York, mother to child transmission is a huge problem in southern Africa, in other parts of the world how well acknowledged is it?
		And I also am very happy to hear Carol Bellamy's comments saying that this also goes to show that awareness is on the increase especially in Southern Africa where the problem is quite acute.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/3276893.stm (7162 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		BELLAMY: Well, it's only made it worse in the sense that Afghan's children and the children inside of Afghanistan were some of the poorest and least healthy in the world.
		CALLAWAY: Carol, it's difficult to pass along the dire straits that the children are in.
		BELLAMY: Oh, no. Actually, the food packets don't help the young babies, and in fact, the World Food really isn't dropping, that has been the U.S. But we are providing, and the Red Cross is providing what is called a "mix" that can be used for children who are particularly young and particularly malnourished.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0111/19/lt.02.html (927 words)

	Carol Bellamy meets war-affected people in the north (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		She was briefed by Anglican Bishop Baker Ochola, the vice-chairman of the Acholi Religious Leaders' Peace Initiative, on his group's efforts to broker a peaceful settlement of the conflict, which he described as "a disaster".
		Ochola quoted Bellamy as appealing to both sides in the war to regard children as a special case, who should not be used as soldiers by either side.
		Bellamy also visited children known as "night commuters" who every night take refuge in the northern towns to sleep on shop verandas, at bus terminals and in school and hospital compounds.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=41329 (576 words)

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