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World Day Against Child Labour – 12 June

11 juin 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: agriculture, child labor, developing countries, ethnic families, ILO, immigrant, industrialised nations, production costs, UNICEF

Every year on June 12 the World Day Against Child Labor is observed to raise awareness of the plight of child laborers world-wide. Hundreds of millions of girls and boys around the world are affected.

Background
Child labor is especially rampant in many developing countries – but even in industrialized nations many children are forced to work. According to UNICEF, children in the United States “are employed in agriculture, a high proportion of them from immigrant or ethnic-minority families.”

There have also been a number of incidents of westerns companies exploiting child laborers in developing countries to save production costs.

In 2011, there were an estimated 215 million child laborers in the world – 115 million of which were involved in hazardous work. To combat child labor around the world the International Labour Organization (ILO) initiated the World Day Against Child Labor in 2002.

Source: Text: timeanddate.com  Image: forwardprogressives.com

 

 

World Blood Donor Day – 14 June

13 juin 2016
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: ABO blood group system, blood donation, blood transfusions, developing countries, Karl Landsteiner, WHO

Safe blood supplies are a scarce commodity – especially in developing countries. World Blood Donor Day is an occasion to raise awareness of the problem and thank donors worldwide. It is held girl-w-logos-630anually on June 14. Giving blood is easy and saves lives.

Many events are held around the world on June 14 to mark World Blood Donor Day. These include football matches, concerts and mobile blood donation clinics. In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) called upon communities world-wide to symbolically « paint the world red » by coloring, covering or lighting monuments and landmarks.

Despite about 92 million yearly blood donations worldwide, safe blood is constantly on high demand, especially in developing countries. World Blood Donor Day falls on the birthday of Karl Landsteiner (June 14, 1868). He created the ABO blood group system, which is still used today to ensure the safety of blood transfusions.

Source: Text: timeanddate.com  Image: WHO

World Day for Safety and Health at Work – 28 April

27 avril 2016
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: developing countries, economic recession, global competition, ILO International Labour Organisation, labour relation, policymakers, pressure, psychosocial risks, work-related stress, working hours

wcms_450061This year, “Workplace Stress: a collective challenge” is the theme of the campaign of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. The report will draw attention to current global trends on work-related stress and its impact.

Today, many workers are facing greater pressure to meet the demands of modern working life. Psychosocial risks such as increased competition, higher expectations on performance and longer working hours are contributing to the workplace becoming an ever more stressful environment. With the pace of work dictated by instant communications and high levels of global competition, the lines separating work from life are becoming more and more difficult to identify. In addition, due to the significant changes labour relations and the current economic recession, workers are experiencing organizational changes and restructuring, reduced work opportunities, increasing precarious work , the fear of losing their jobs, massive layoffs and unemployment and decreased financial stability, with serious consequences to their mental health and well-being.

In recent years, there has been growing attention to the impact of psychosocial risks and work-related stress among researchers, practitioners and policymakers. Work-related stress is now generally acknowledged as global issue affecting all countries, all professions and all workers both in developed and developing countries. In this complex context, the workplace is at the same time an important source of psychosocial risks and the ideal venue to address them in order to protect the health and well-being of workers.

Source: Text & Image: ILO (International Labour Organisation)

World TB Day – 24 March

23 mars 2016
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: bacterial disease, developing countries, epidemic, Koch, South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, TB public awareness, WHO

wtbd_news_sectionThe theme of this year’s World TB Day is: « Unite to End TB »

World TB Day, falling on March 24th each year, is designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world, causing the deaths of nearly one-and-a-half million people each year, mostly in developing countries.

It commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch astounded the scientific community by announcing that he had discovered the cause of tuberculosis, the TB bacillus. At the time of Koch’s announcement in Berlin, TB was raging through Europe and the Americas, causing the death of one out of every seven people. Koch’s discovery opened the way towards diagnosing and curing TB.

Source: Text & Image: Website Stop TB Partnership

Background
Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infectious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs. It is transmitted from person to person via droplets from the throat and lungs of people with the disease. WHO estimates that the largest number of new TB cases in 2005 occurred in south-east Asia, which accounted for 34 percent of incident cases globally. However, the estimated incidence rate in sub-Saharan Africa is nearly twice that of south-east Asia.

Source: Text: timeanddate.com