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CCISUA Members Pause to Remember Fallen UNHCR Staffer 16-7-2009 | ISTANBUL, 16 July 2009 – Representatives of CCISUA today stood for a moment of silence in memory of Zill-e-Usman, a UNHCR veteran and the chairperson of the UNHCR Staff Council in Peshawar, who was killed today in an attempted abduction in the Katcha Garhi camp for internally displaced persons. Usman had been working for 27 years and was set to retire at the end of this year. His qualities as a leader and as a committed aid worker were widely recognized. “It is just so shocking,” said Guy Avognon, CCISUA Treasurer and Chairperson of the UNHCR Staff Council as he recalled a colleague he had seen just five days ago. “Our last conversations focused on how national staff members should be empowered to assume more responsibilities in the Pakistan programme. It is such a senseless loss.” Usman was the third UNHCR staffer to be killed in Pakistan this year. In June, UNICEF staffer Percy So, an education specialist working to get girls into school, was also killed in a bomb blast at her hotel in Peshawar. “Usman’s death is another tragic loss that reminds us once again that the work that we do in the field requires a very high level of courage and commitment,” said Rita Ann Wallace, CCISUA Vice-President and UNICEF Global Staff Association Chairperson. “Our deepest condolences go out to him and his family,” she said. Avognon is a member of a CCISUA delegation, including executive heads and representatives of staff unions and associations from nearly a dozen UN agencies, who were in Istanbul sharing their experiences with more than 160 UNICEF staff association representatives gathered for their Global Conference. The meeting represented an opportunity for staff reps to review a raft of issues essential to staffers all over the world, including staff safety and security, and included training on effective staff association leadership. The death of Usman strikes close to home to UNICEF colleagues. “When I hear this it reminds me of the experience I had in my own life, and it recalls the situation I had in my own family,” Najibullah Hameem, UNICEF protection specialist from Afghanistan, and the Chair of the ROSA staff association. “I know what this means to the family, to colleagues and to the community and I know what is going on now and I am reminded.” The 34,000 staff represented by CCISUA stand in solidarity, and express our sincere condolences to Usman’s wife, his four children, his entire family and his colleagues. 
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