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        Online Discussion - Noon EST on 21 January - Join and Help Shape XUNICEF's Future Communications Platform XUNICEF News & Views will close on 31 March 2026 unless new editors volunteer to continue it. We still need your help.  While several members have expressed interest in joining the editorial team, we don't yet have enough commitments to keep the newsletter running after March. We also need your ideas.  Members have proposed alternatives to the current blog model—a new website, social media platforms, or other ways to keep our community connected after March. Let's explore these together. Join our first online consultation: Wednesday, 21 January 2026 | 12:00 noon EST (New York time) Google Meet:  meet.google.com/bkn-svae-qbs All are welcome. Just bring your ideas on how to preserve what matters most: staying connected as a community. Thanks. The Editors In response to our appeal to join the editorial team we are happy to inform that at l...

  Welcome back from the holiday break and a Happy New Year to all our readers! For this week's feature, Myra Rudin   peeked through open windows and doors, surprised people, and captured their fleeting smiles… Take a peek for yourself !

 

    

  This week,  Rob Carr  recalls a visit by Jim Grant to  Northern Iraq, in 1992 . Rob had only recently joined UNICEF and, as head of the office in Dohuk, he was asked to plan every hour of the visit. Jim Grant wanted to meet children..... but there were no children....

 

          

 

  Feature His visits to Berlin in 2022 and 2025 left deep impressions on Luis Oliveros . Supported by his images of the once divided city, he wonders why he couldn't quite understand the atmosphere, the character and the idiosyncrasy of the new and reconstructed Berlin. See for yourself.... Ceasefire in Gaza We all held our breath this week, waiting for the outcome of the negotiations on the 20 point peace plan for Gaza. On Friday noon local time, the ceasefire was in effect. Time will tell whether a lasting peace will follow soon.  Several of our readers sent us articles reflecting their views.  Robert Cohen  sent us the media remarks of the SG ; Robert also agrees that Israel must be held accountable ;  Anis Salem   shared an article on Tony Blair's proposed governing team for Gaza, and the joint statement by the EU and ECHO on the humanitarian Situation in Gaza; Niloufar Pourzand sent us the address by Ben Saul and Chris Sidoti on why the recognition...