Anita Tiessen
Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF UK
Anita Tiessen is Deputy Executive Director at UNICEF UK, responsible for the organisation’s public affairs, programmes and communications work. She leads on the organisation’s efforts to embed children’s rights in the UK, from incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in law and policy through to rights based programmes in communities, schools and health settings. She has previously worked at Amnesty International’s headquarters in London, and as a journalist and government communicator in her native Canada.
Bringing hope for children in West Africa
Posted 11 June 2012
Since December last year, UNICEF has been warning of a looming food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa, where more than one million very young children will suffer from life-threatening malnutrition this year. I've just returned from a visit to Chad, one of the eight countries affected by this crisis that has resulted from [...]
