Weekly Update - 25 October to 1 November 2020

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From Your Editors

Repeating Our Frequent Appeal for Better Internet Etiquette

Each month or two we lose a few members. Why? The number one reason they cite is that they receive too many unwanted emails on the XUNICEF network. Remember that not every one of our 800 members wants to see your message, or your reply to someone else's message.

1. Is your message so urgent that it must be sent immediately as an email to all 800 members? Really? Can it not wait until the next Weekly Update? If it can wait a day or two, send it instead to us at xunicef.news.views@gmail.com. It will usually appear on the same day on our website and at the end of the week in the Weekly Update.

2. If "yes, this is urgent and important for all members to see immediately.", do not address it as:

"To: allmembers@xunicef.com". Instead, use "Bcc: "

3. If you receive a message that someone has sent to "allmembers", do not answer using "Reply All". Instead, use only "Reply to sender".

Our Artist of the Week - Margherita Amodeo

Margherita presented many of her works in our September 2019 special edition on the Arts and Artists of XUNICEF. We are pleased to present her full gallery this week, including many works which we were not able to include at that time. Click here.

Call for XUNICEF artists, photographers, and musicians for 2021

We need new contributors and new contributions to our galleries and our weekly slideshows. Whether amateur, semi-professional, or accomplished artist - we need you. Don't be shy - express yourself and share!! Click here

The UN@75 Continued

Don't miss Mark Malloch-Brown's UNU Wider lecture - a great review of where the UN has been and where it should go. Note his tribute to "the legendary Jim Grant". Click here.

Comments to the BBC article on the" United Nations at 75" have continued to arrive. In fact, so far we have received 21 comments - click here.

Discussion of the Week

Rethinking UNICEF - Detlef Palm's article on 9 October kicked off a great discussion of UNICEF's programming process. Detlef has now responded to the many comments. Several members then commented on Detlef's response. One of the interesting threads of this discussion concerned UNICEF's experience of the Italian contribution which was tied to procurement of Italian vehicles and hiring of Italian personnel. See Fritz Lherisson's further comment "JPG knew the Stumbling Blocks Ahead".

The Week Ahead

For the full calendar of the week click here. Is something missing? Let us know, please. Keep in mind too that we learn of many events during the week, so check the back during the week. Better yet, copy the XUNICEF calendar into your own so that events are updated automatically when they are posted.

Saturday, 31 October World Cities Day

2 to 6 November Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

Monday, 2 November End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists

UN Pledging Conference for Development Activities

Thursday, 5 November 0900 EST Violence Cluster Meeting

0900 EDT 1500 CET Introduction to the World Health Assembly

Friday, 6 November Preventing Exploitation of the Environment in Armed Conflict

Missing You

Jack Glattbach, RIP - Mark Bowman and Umberto Cancellieri shared the sad news of the passing of Jack Glattbach. For those who would like to send condolences directly to the family, you can address them to his daughter, Lucy Glattbach-Exell at lglattbach@hotmail.com.

You can also add condolences and your memories to his page in 'Missing You". We will collect these and send them back to his family asap.

Editors' Picks - Articles We Enjoyed

Sree Gururaja

Bill Gates' Advice for 2020

Letter from Borno - Nigeria is restless

Filipino Footprints - a national group of UN retirees publishes its story

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