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World Children’s Day – 20 November

20 novembre 2024
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: better world, future, global action, priorities, rights, self-expression

Listen to the future. Stand up for children’s rights.

World Children’s Day is UNICEF’s global day of action for children, by children, marking the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Child rights are human rights. They are non-negotiable and universal. But in too many places today children’s rights are being misunderstood, disregarded or even denied and attacked.

Upholding children’s rights is the compass to a better world – today, tomorrow and into the future.

This World Children’s Day, join us and listen to the future.

By listening to children we can fulfil their right to self-expression, understand their ideas for a better world and include their priorities in our actions today.

 

Source: Text & Image: https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-childrens-day

World Consumers Rights Day – 15 March 2023

15 mars 2023
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: abuses, consumer rights, global action, market, protect, respect

The consumer movement marks 15th March with World Consumer Rights Day every year, as a means of raising global awareness about consumer rights and needs. Celebrating the day is a chance to demand that the rights of all consumers are respected and protected, and to protest against market abuses and social injustices which undermine those rights. 

World Consumer Rights Day is globally recognised and accredited by the United Nations. For 40 years Consumers International has run the campaign, uniting the consumer movement to celebrate together. Consumers International Members help to select the campaign topic each year to help mobilise global action on pressing issues impacting consumers.  

On 15 March 1962, President John F Kennedy sent a special message to the US Congress in which he formally addressed the issue of consumer rights. He was the first world leader to do so, and the consumer movement now marks 15 March, with World Consumer Rights Day, every year as a means of raising global awareness about consumer rights and needs. 

President Kennedy said: ‘Consumers include us all. They are the largest economic group, affecting and affected by almost every public and private economic decision. Yet they are the only important group… whose views are often not heard.’

 

Source: Text & Image: https://www.consumersinternational.org/    

World Sight Day – 11 October

11 octobre 2018
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: awareness, blindness, eye care, global action

World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. World Sight Day 2018 is on 11 October 2018.

2018 is the sixth year of the WHO Global Action Plan and IAPB encourages our members and partners to continue with our rolling theme:

Universal Eye Health

This year, the ‘Call to Action‘ for World Sight Day is: Eye Care Everywhere.

  • 1.2 Billion people need #glasses to see better.
  • More than 75% of visual impairment is avoidable.
Source: Text & Image: IABP