Special Representative for International Year of the Child, 1979

Portrait of Dr. Estefania Aldaba-Lim, formerly Secretary of the Philippine Government's Department of Social Services and Development, who has been appointed Special Representative for the International Year of the Child (IYC), with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. Dr. Lim was appointed by Henry R. Labouisse, Executive Director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), in consultation with Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Dr. Lim will provide leadership to IYC activities and will be directly responsible to the UNICEF Executive Director. UNICEF has been designated by the General Assembly as the lead agency responsible for co-ordinating the activities of the Year, which has been proclaimed for 1979. In her new post Dr. Lim will be especially concerned with encouraging governments in both industrialized and developing countries to participate actively in the Year, to raise significantly the level of services benefiting children on a permanent basis, and where possible to increase substantially the resources available for such services.