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Linked-in post  On the occasion of International Women's Day, 8th March, what do I think, as an Iranian feminist, activist, academic & practitioner/mother/spouse/relative/friend/colleague…beyond this year's slogan of "Rights, Justice, Action for ALL Women & Girls"? I think of over 40 million Iranian girls & women under US & Israeli bombardment - being killed, injured or alive to take care of others around them, surviving one hour to another, bearing witness - after years & decades of incredible resistance against the Regime's discriminatory & oppressive policies & actions. I think of our female political prisoners - the most courageous amongst us - hearing bombs fall around them & possibly on their loved ones outside. I think of the thousands of girls & women who protested in the early days of January & were targeted & killed by the Regime. I think of Zan, Zendegi, Azadi - Woman, Life, Freedom. I think of the girls...

 

If birds can live in harmony, why can humans not? Sree @dappertv001

Rebeca Grynspan Costa Rica Macky Sall Senegal Raphael Gross, Argentina Michel Bachelet, Chileǰ

Being successful and happy March 20 th has been designated as the International Happiness Day since 2012.

See attached first 4 pages about some 2026 swim locations and 6 pages from related posts at substack by Brother George.

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Rescue workers and residents search through the rubble after strike on a girls' elementary school in Iran. Overall Casualty figures from the US-Israeli assault on Iran and the Iranian response remain deeply uncertain and are rising by the hour.  Preliminary figures are 555 dead in Iran, at least 10 in Israel, five civilians killed in Gulf states. In addition, four US soldiers were killed in Kuwait.  Iran Iran's Health Ministry now reports approximately 180 children killed in the strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab, where girls aged seven to twelve were in class when the missile hit. A second school in Tehran's Narmak district was also struck, killing two more students. Overall deaths across Iran have reached at least 555, with casualty figures from two   hospital strikes in Tehran still unconfirmed as rescue operations continue. Israel In Israel, an Iranian ballistic missile struck residential buildings and a synagogue shelter in Beit Sh...

 

Iran Strikes: Early Reports of Children Killed in Schools At least 85 girls aged seven to twelve were killed and 93 injured when a strike hit Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab as U.S. and Israeli warplanes attacked Iran on Saturday, the start of the local workweek. Many  parents had already dropped off their children at schools when the attacks began.

As announced last week by Tom McDermott, we are discontinuing the preparation of our weekly "Editorial", which has mainly been a content listing of the articles published on the XUNICEF blog.  Instead, we simply invite you to browse through the listing of articles on our blog, in the same way as you do when reading an online news magazine or - for that matter - any other blog.

How Honest is the Global Humanitarian Lottery?   Mukesh Kapila  Fading Causes (YouTube Channel) 

 

 

With a new team of editors being formed, we would like to streamline how members can submit their own articles for posting. It is easier than you think. Here is what you need to do.

HIDDEN IDENTITY It seems that Jeffrey Epstein’s influence extends well beyond the Final Frontier. ***** The news streams are so persistent that one cannot avoid them.  Today, we have been treated to photos of former President Clinton in a pool with Ghislaine Maxwell and stories of the former President seeking funding for the Clinton Global Initiative from Jeffrey Epstein.

 

Many thanks, dear Sam, for sharing this inspiring article. So proud of our RESULTS.org colleagues and the transformational advocacy skills that you have instilled in them. I recall fondly how RESULTS advocacy helped mobilize similar US support for the highly successful "child survival revolution" interventions spearheaded by UNICEF in the 1980s and 90s. Let's hope that these life-saving appropriations for global health, approved by Congress and signed by the President, will actually be disbursed, and not withheld by OMB under any pretext. Thank you.