title: A letter of concern from the People's Health Movement regarding the appointment of Ms. Ann Veneman as Executive Director of UNICEF, effective May 2005.
abstract: This letter from members of the People's Health Movement to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan expresses concern about the appointment of Ann Veneman as the new Executive Director of UNICEF, based on her past performance on issues affecting children's health, and criticizes the processes used in making this and similar U.N. appointments, which reward powerful countries with the ability to make political appointments to important posts.
authors.affiliation: Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
authors.forename: Ravi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Narayan
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D003254:Consumer Advocacy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000379:methods; D011361:Professional Competence; D014480:United Nations