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Fighting for the World’s Children: Henry R. Labouisse’s Service in UNICEF
By Diana Dayoub ’21 For development is not just roads, power plants, stepped up production in industry and agriculture. Development is people, beginning with the child. —Henry R. Labouisse at the Inaugural Meeting of the UNICEF Executive Board
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Princeton Alumni in the Service of the Refugee Cause: Henry R. Labouisse’s UNRWA Legacy
By Diana Dayoub ’21 UNRWA’s unpopularity with the people it works for, and the governments it works with, is in direct contrast to the popularity of the man from Wilton, Connecticut who heads it. —Princeton Alumni Weekly, February 10, 1956 With the number of displaced persons reaching a record high since the 1940s and with…
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