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- James P. GRANT (naskiĝis la 12-a de majo 1922, mortis la 28-an de januaro 1995) estis ekde 1980 asista ĝenerala sekretario de Unuiĝintaj Nacioj kaj estro de UNICEF (Infan-Fonduso de UN). Ĉi tiu usona diplomato akiris ĝeneralan estimon kiel efika UNICEF-direktoro - ofico kiun li plenumis ĝis du tagojn antaŭ sia morto. Dum lia 15-jara gvidado, kampanjoj de perbuŝa rehumidigo, mamnutrado k.a. savis almenaŭ 25 milionojn da infanaj vivoj kaj preventis vivdaŭrajn handikapojn ĉe pluaj milionoj. La proporcio de vakcinitaj infanoj en la evolu-landoj kreskis en tiu tempo de 20 al 80%. Konvencio pri la rajtoj de infanoj (1989) estis ratifita de 170 landoj, kaj monda pintkunveno pri infanoj (Novjorko, 1990) impulsis centon da naciaj agad-planoj pri sanigo kaj bonfartigo de infanoj ĝis la jaro 2000. UEA, kiu estas en konsultaj rilatoj kun UNICEF, rekonis en 1987 la kontribuon de Grant "al la realigo de la idealoj de la aŭtoro de Esperanto" per la Premio Zamenhof. (eo)
- James Pineo Grant (May 12, 1922 – January 28, 1995) was an American diplomat and children's advocate. Grant served for 15 years (from January 1980 to January 1995) as the third executive director of the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), with the rank of Under Secretary-General. Grant was born at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing. He lived in China until the age of 15, where his father, John Black Grant, was the first professor of Public Health at the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Peking Union Medical College. Grant attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1943 in economics, and in 1951 graduated from Harvard Law School. Grant began his international civil service in the late 1940s working in China with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. In 1962, was named Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and South Asian Affairs and deputy director of the International Cooperation Administration, the precursor to the United States Agency for International Development. From 1964 until 1967 Grant served as the USAID Mission Director in Turkey. In 1967 he was appointed the Assistant Administrator of USAID for Southeast Asia, a position he held until 1969. After he left USAID in 1969 he formed the , becoming its president and CEO. Grant left the ODC after being appointed UNICEF executive director. He served in that position from January 1980 to January 1995. As Marcos Cueto mentioned in article, "Under Grant's dynamic leadership, UNICEF began to back away from a holistic approach to primary health care. Grant believed that international agencies had to do their best with finite resources and short-lived local political opportunities. This meant translating general goals into time-bound specific actions. A few years later, Grant organized a UNICEF book that proposed a "children's revolution" and explained the 4 inexpensive interventions contained in GOBI." On August 8, 1994, he was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President William Clinton. Grant was diagnosed with cancer in May 1993, but continued to lead UNICEF until he resigned on January 23, 1995 and died a few days later, at age 72. Nicholas D. Kristof wrote in 2008 that Grant, "a little-known American aid worker," had "probably saved more lives than were destroyed by Hitler, Mao, and Stalin combined" through his promotion of vaccinations and diarrhea treatments. Grant had been universally known within UN as a man who could not accept the undoable: he would be often found scribbling on a pad, laughing to himself, "It can be done! It can be done" (en)
- James P. "Jim" Grant (2 mai 1922 - 28 janvier 1995) a été le 3e dirigeant de l'UNICEF. (fr)
- James "Jim" P. Grant (Pechino, 12 maggio 1912 – 28 gennaio 1995) è stato un funzionario statunitense di origine cinese, uomo di stato e figura di rilievo nel campo umanitario e dell'aiuto allo sviluppo. (it)
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- James P. "Jim" Grant (2 mai 1922 - 28 janvier 1995) a été le 3e dirigeant de l'UNICEF. (fr)
- James "Jim" P. Grant (Pechino, 12 maggio 1912 – 28 gennaio 1995) è stato un funzionario statunitense di origine cinese, uomo di stato e figura di rilievo nel campo umanitario e dell'aiuto allo sviluppo. (it)
- James P. GRANT (naskiĝis la 12-a de majo 1922, mortis la 28-an de januaro 1995) estis ekde 1980 asista ĝenerala sekretario de Unuiĝintaj Nacioj kaj estro de UNICEF (Infan-Fonduso de UN). Ĉi tiu usona diplomato akiris ĝeneralan estimon kiel efika UNICEF-direktoro - ofico kiun li plenumis ĝis du tagojn antaŭ sia morto. UEA, kiu estas en konsultaj rilatoj kun UNICEF, rekonis en 1987 la kontribuon de Grant "al la realigo de la idealoj de la aŭtoro de Esperanto" per la Premio Zamenhof. (eo)
- James Pineo Grant (May 12, 1922 – January 28, 1995) was an American diplomat and children's advocate. Grant served for 15 years (from January 1980 to January 1995) as the third executive director of the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), with the rank of Under Secretary-General. Grant began his international civil service in the late 1940s working in China with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Grant was diagnosed with cancer in May 1993, but continued to lead UNICEF until he resigned on January 23, 1995 and died a few days later, at age 72. (en)