Please browse our website to read all of the articles that appeared on our website during this and previous weeks. We post new articles nearly every day, so there is no need to wait all week for the Digest to read what is new. Bookmark our website and visit often.
Where do our XUNICEF members live?
In our "where I live" series, Gautam Banerji takes us on a delightful journey across continents. He shares glimpses of the homes that stole his heart!
Click here to read Gautam’s charming story.
Happy Nowruz to all !!
Nowruz holidays will begin on March 21st. Many of our colleagues will be celebrating Nowruz, the Feast of the "New Day". This first day of spring is an important recognition of the "new beginnings" of nature especially in the northern hemisphere.
Ukraine
The ongoing war in the Ukraine continues to dominate the news and - depending where you live - you might find it hard to concentrate on your daily routines or anything else. We have many articles dealing with the crisis, and it would be best if you scroll through our posts on the blog and choose for yourself. Or simply click the label 'Ukraine' which you find next or after any post related to the Ukraine.
Perhaps you already asked yourself: Where is the UN SG?, or what you and the UNICEF family can do to assist the refugees fleeing the war zone. For this, we recommend the two articles by our member Witold Smyk (here and here), who lives in Poland.
What becomes clearer by the minute is that that this violent conflict is going to have a global impact, and that people who are poor are most likely to suffer the most.
One outfall of the war is that global attention is diverted from
Kurdistan,
Afghanistan, or
Yemen, where the situation remains tenuous and the needs are as large as ever.
Pension
Notwithstanding the official statement that the UN Pension Fund remain strong and stable, the Global Staff Association has shared a petition to the UN SG against the outsourcing of part of the pension fund assets. If you are interested in the matter, click here. There is also Fact Sheet on the UN Pension Blog.
Do you want to share articles or opinion pieces you want to share with the XUNICEF network? If so, be sure to add your own thoughts on the issues raised in the article. Don't simply send the links to an article someone else sent - we need your own thoughts and opinions, as well.
The Academics Cluster The next meeting is planned for 24 March at 0800 EST. Aziz Froutan will present "Afghanistan: Future of a Lost Generation". The cluster has invited any XUNICEF members interested in Afghanistan to join the meeting and the discussion. If you would like to join, please send your email address as soon as possible to Niloufar Pourzand (
nilypourzand@gmail.com).
Click here for the comments we received this week. It is easy to add your comments under any article. At the bottom of the article just click on 'Comments', add your name and email address, and enter your comment. If you want to comment or reply to someone else's comment, click on 'Reply'. In either case when you have entered your comment, click on 'Publish'. There is no need to email us.
Do you have an event or meeting you would like to add to the calendar? Let us know by writing to us at
xunicef.news.views@gmail.com. Don't forget that we learn of many events after our Weekly Digest has gone out, so please check the calendar during the week to learn of last minute notices.
This is YOUR website, or blog. Our website, contains articles or opinions that YOU might find important, so please share your thoughts and preferences with us. The XUNICEF network is the platform where former and active colleagues come together and share a piece of their lives with each other. Members may agree - or disagree - on many issues, but the only way to find out is if you share with us what matters to you.
Stay Tuned! Remember, that you can sign up to receive a
daily digest of our newly posted articles. This ensures that you won't miss any interesting article during the week. To sign up for the daily subscription,
click here.
In case you received this email and link from a colleague, here is the
link to our membership form is here. If your contacts have changed, use the same form to update our lists.
Comments
Post a Comment
If you are a member of XUNICEF, you can comment directly on a post. Or, send your comments to us at xunicef.news.views@gmail.com and we will publish them for you.