Ann Veneman
Ann Veneman
Ann Margaret Venemanwas the Executive Director of UNICEF from 2005 to 2010. Her appointment was announced on January 18, 2005 by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Previously, Veneman was the United States Secretary of Agriculture, the first and only woman to hold that position. Veneman served as USDA Secretary from January 20, 2001 to January 20, 2005, leaving to become the fifth executive director of UNICEF. She served in this position from May 1, 2005. A lawyer by training, Veneman has...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth29 June 1949
CountryUnited States of America
The issues facing the farmers and ranchers today are complex and challenging,
The fear is that we could lose thousands of people additionally to diarrhoea, disease and injuries that are not treated. It's absolutely urgent that as much aid gets in as possible. This is an area that will get much colder as the winter comes and the people are going to need shelter and blankets.
Children are forced into prostitution, begging and soliciting, labor on plantations and in mines, markets, factories and domestic work.
A whole generation has never known a world free of HIV and Aids, yet the magnitude of the problem dwarfs the scale of the response so far.
The relief effort is becoming more complex with each passing day,
Education of children, especially girls, is the cornerstone to national progress,
It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.
This action is being taken as a cautionary measure to ensure the protection of public health, ... Public health is our number-one priority, and it is our number-one concern.
Almost one in three children in Zimbabwe, 1,6-million, are now orphaned, having lost at least one parent, and this number is growing. HIV and Aids have dramatically increased children's vulnerability in recent years.
no specific position has been taken on that proposal.
I certainly, with no hesitation, would say that every mother can feel confident that they can feed their children beef in this country,
Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
It's devastating to see ... all the buildings that have fallen down, to see people's lives completely shattered, to see a tent next to a house that was there,
All of those standard operating procedures were followed, which is again why we believe that the food supply has been protected.