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  See original:  http://unpension.blogspot.com/ Please sign this petition to the UN Secretary-General and ask family and friends to sign as well. UN Pension Fund is a public pension fund. Anyone can sign! Click link to petition for French and Spanish versions. https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/en/un_secretarygeneral_guterres_stop_disenfranchisement_in_un_pension_board_elections/ Members of the Pension Fund and Board leadership have tried for years to muzzle UN participant representatives on the Board, going so far as to try to change Pension Fund rules. Now they want to stop them from running for elections. They must not succeed! "The United Nations has promoted democracy around the world for 75 years. And yet its subsidiary - the United Nations Pension Board, and certain UN senior officials , want the General Assembly (GA) to amend Article 6 of the UNJSPF regulations, to disenfranchise hundreds of its active participants , by excluding them from sitting on the Board

We are delighted to welcome 28 new members to XUNICEF in May. If we overlooked your name, please let us know. Want to look up names of other members? Just click on the 'Members Directory' in the sidebar of the page or click here. Need someone's email address? Contact the Network Administrator, Oscar Fernandez ( ofernandez@xunicef.com ) or contact the editors at News and Views ( xunicef.news.views@gmail.com ). First name Second name Resides in Country Olalekan Ajia Ijebu Ode Nigeria Stephanie Allen Geneve France Maria del Pilar Calderon Lima Peru Abdou Moudjibi Chitou Niamey Niger Peter Cuppen Nuenen Netherlands Maria Dahmén Borrby Sweden Narcisse de Medeiros Saly Senegal Boubacar Dieng Dakar Senegal Adebayo Fayoyin Sandton South Africa Waithira Gikonyo Nairobi Kenya Adriano Gonzalez-Regueral Madrid Spain Jim Irvine Ballina Australia Bernard Maeson Saint-Georges-Sur- Meuse Belgium Mirjana Mavrak Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina Junko MItani Tokyo, Japan Japan Jane Wangui M

I was born right in the middle of World War II. Both of my parents were survivors of an earlier genocide. Just as the civil war heating up, I left Lebanon for the US. I arrived in the Columbus, Ohio, just as the university protests were getting underway. A few years later I moved to Brazil to collect the data for my Ph.D. dissertation. Brazilians told me many times that they are peaceful people. I think they really thought (or wished) that Brazil would be a peaceful place. I do too. Let me tell you - it ain’t. A very large number of poor and adolescents were being killed then. Today they still are being killed. A very large number of poor women were being killed there each year. They still are being killed there each year. The same goes for other violence against young the poor - and especially violence against poor women. I learned quickly that the country I called my second home was in fact an undeclared war zone where the victims seemed to be especially young black kids an

  Many of us met and got to know Tony Meager during his many years with UNICEF. In response to our May 21st column    The Mahatma Meets the Volunteer ' Peter Greaves sent us this photo of Tony Meager touring a Special Child Relief (SCR) programme in W. Bengal.  Peter adds that John Grun brought Tony to Delhi in 1974 to manage the SCR.   The other man riding in the rickshaw looks familiar, but so far none of us can put a name to his face.  Anyone have a guess?   Read more articles on UNICEF's history

Dear Henrietta, I commend you for your strong appeal to the G-7 leaders to release some of the excess COVID vaccines they have in their stock to the neediest developing countries. In that context, as you are well aware, India and its neighboring countries, including Nepal are now the hottest of the world's hot spots. Following the restrictions on the export of any more vaccines by the Serum Institute of India, and the resulting inability of COVAX to supply any more AstraZeneca vaccines, countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and others find themselves in a situation of not being able to give the 2nd dose of the AZ vaccine to their elderly, frontline health workers and other vulnerable populations who got their first dose nearly three months ago. Meanwhile, several G-7 countries are holding fairly large quantities of AZ vaccines that they don't need and don't plan to use. Some of these vaccines, as in Canada, are likely to expire soon and might have to be thrown away.

  From Your Editors This was a week of counting up the terrible losses in Gaza and in Israel.  The NY Times carried a heartbreaking collection of the children lost in Gaza (see 'They Were Only Children in the Editors' Picks below).    UNICEF has issued several new reports that may interest you:  New data on the impacts of COVID-19 on children, water / sanitation in conflict countries, and better governance for children.  We are pleased to add a new columnist this week - our own Nuzhat Shahzadi with her column 'Up Close and Personal'.  Nuzhat invites all readers to contribute their personal stories from times they worked in conflict countries.  A Reminder If you are contributing an article for our forthcoming June Quarterly (due out @ 22 June), please keep in mind that this coming Tuesday, June 1st is our deadline for submissions.  We need you - so please don't come late to the party !! Our Photographer of the Week - Tad Palac Tad Palac appeared as our Photographer o

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