UNICEF North Korea Office Audit Warns Oversight Lacking On Some Health Projects
Fox News: UNICEF’s North Korea office barred from oversight of its own health projects, audit probe warns
“…While UNICEF is supposed to be supporting an array of health and education programs in the country — including campaigns financed by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) — and is supposed to be monitoring their progress, the audit notes that the agency’s international staff are banned from entering 35 of North Korea’s 208 counties, which hold about 13 percent of the nation’s roughly 25 million people…” (Russell, 1/6).
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