XUNICEF News and Views

Dear XUNICEF Colleagues: This week XUNICEF reached the 1.1 MILLION for number of hits.  We continue to average around 1000 hits per day.

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.

 

 

I am happy to report some good news about possibilities for News & Views to continue beyond the end of March. We invited all members of XUNICEF to participate in an online discussion on Wednesday January 28th on the question, "Replace or Continue News & Views after 31 March".  We included a link to a very short questionnaire asking whether members would like the publication to continue and if so, whether they would agree to help in managing or leading after the end of March.

I have posted this message on my Linked-in.  Perhaps you can post similar message on whatever social media you use.

Dear Fellow Members of XUNICEF, Many of our colleagues are facing unexpected career transitions due to current funding cuts and restructuring. Others may soon find themselves in similar circumstances. We invite you to share the following message through your networks and social media as you see fit.

 

    We have not reported on new members who have joined XUNICEF since the end of July 2024. So here is a long overdue update, and a belated, but very hearty Welcome to XUNICEF !!! XUNICEF now has 1,093 members, representing 111 nationalities, and living in 103 countries.

  We have not reported on new members who have joined XUNICEF since the end of January.  So here is a long overdue update, and a belated, but very hearty Welcome to XUNICEF !!!

 

A Family's Ordeal of 2,897 Days - An XUNICEF Timeline This is a story of a UNICEF / XUNICEF colleague and his family who underwent a long and painful ordeal when they found themselves caught up in a global political struggle.  It is also the story of his XUNICEF colleagues who stepped up to help,.....and did !!   How it began - 13 October 2015 Siamak is arrested by Iran's Revolutionary Guard How it ended - 18 September 2023 - the Namazis are reunited, at last  In the long campaign for the freedom of Baquer and Siamak Namazi XUNICEF was by no means the main player.  Credit for organizing the fight goes primarily to the Namazis themselves, and in particular to Babak Namazi, son of Baquer and elder brother of Siamak.  Babak and his human rights lawyer in the US, Jared Genser played the principal roles in organizing the political, diplomatic, and public awareness campaign.  They were tireless in this effort.   Would that every UN family have s...

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This week, your XUNICEF blog will cross another benchmark. 300,000 articles  have been viewed by our readers since the blog was established in early 2018.  Also this week, we welcome our 1000th member to the XUNICEF community. Our members live all over the world. The map below indicates the countries, from where our readers have visited the XUNICEF blog, since 7 January 2023 . We so far have collected 113 flags, including from far flung places such as Tonga, Lesotho and Burkina Faso. Our readers are also in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, the Ukraine, Belarus, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Georgia (the one in the Caucasus!). Our flag counter only identifies the country from where a visitor reads our blog. The identity of our readers remains unknown. You can zoom into the map, by clicking here . About one third of all page-views is from the USA, which  is a favorite retirement location for former staff . UN retirees have called in from 41 states of the USA. Als...