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Journée internationale des maladies rares – 28 février

Chaque semaine, 5 nouvelles pathologies touchant moins de 0,2% de la population sont découvertes dans le monde. En 2013, plus de 7 000 maladies rares différentes étaient identifiées en France. 80% de ces pathologies sont d’origine génétique, mais on dénombre également des maladies infectieuses.

Ces nouvelles maladies, dites « rares » ou « orphelines » nous interpellent pourtant et, afin de sensibiliser le public à leur existence, des manifestations sont prévues dans 34 pays chaque 29 février, journée rare s’il en est*.

Maladies en voie de banalisation
Avec 30 millions de personnes concernées dans toute l’Europe, les maladies dites rares sont en voie de banalisation… paradoxe inquiétant. Cette montée en puissance a incité 34 pays du vieux continent à célébrer la première Journée européenne des maladies rares et ce depuis 2008.

Destinée au grand public, cette journée poursuit trois objectifs :
sensibiliser le public européen aux maladies rares et à leurs répercussions sur la vie des malades
diffuser de l’information sur ces maladies
renforcer la collaboration européenne dans la lutte contre ce fléau.

Peu de personnes en effet, connaissent aujourd’hui le lupus, le syndrome de Gougerot-Sjogren, la maladie de Huntington ou le syndrome de Vaquez.

D’après la définition médicale, une maladie est considérée comme rare lorsqu’elle touche moins d’une personne sur 2 000, soit 0,2% de la population. Pour un pays de la taille de la France, cela équivaut à moins de 30 000 personnes atteintes d’une même maladie. 

Mal aimées de la recherche ?
Le paradoxe des maladies rares est qu’elles peinent à trouver les financements pour que les chercheurs puissent mieux les cerner et les vaincre… les grands laboratoires sont malheureusement cadrés dans une logique de profit et ne peuvent consacrer les moyens suffisants aux maladies rares. Le jeu n’en vaudrait-il pas la chandelle ?

Faisons mentir cette affirmation et remarquons que, dans plusieurs domaines, des institutions – publiques ou privées – relèvent le défi et se lancent dans des programmes ambitieux de recherche. Parmi elles, l’Institut de la Vision tient une place remarquable: centre de recherche européen pour les maladies oculaires, il regroupe 280 cliniciens et chercheurs qui participent au développement de nouvelles stratégies thérapeutiques pour lutter contre ces maladies dévastatrices.

* Le choix du 29 février fait de la journée européenne des maladies rares une journée rare dans la mesure où elle ne pourrait avoir lieu qu’une fois tous les quatre ans… en réalité elle sera fêtée le 28 février chaque fois qu’il n’y aura pas de 29 février !

Un site à visiter : www.alliance-maladies-rares.org   Source : Texte & Image : Journée Mondiale

World Radio Day – 13 February

February 13 is World Radio Day, which celebrates the radio as a way of educating people, providing information, and promoting freedom of expression across cultures.

Despite being over 100 years old, the radio is one of the most popular ways to exchange information, provide social interchange, and educate people all over the world. It has been used to help people, including youth, to engage in discussions on topics that affect them. It can save lives during natural or human-made disasters, and it gives journalists a platform to report facts and tell their stories. The first World Radio Day was officially celebrated in 2012.

Source: Text: timeanddate.com Image: ebu.ch

 

International Migrants Day – 18 December

Migration has been a courageous expression of the individual’s will to overcome adversity and to live a better life. Today, globalization, together with advances in communications and transportation, has greatly increased the number of people who have the desire and the capacity to move to other places. This new era has created challenges and opportunities for societies throughout the world. It also has served to underscore the clear linkage between migration and development, as well as the opportunities it provides for co-development, that is, the concerted improvement of economic and social conditions at both origin and destination. So, now let’s jump right into the past of what is International Migrant’s Day!

History of International Migrant’s Day
International Migrants Day is an international day overseen on the 18th of December as International Migrant’s Day, which was appointed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 4th 2000, after having taken into account the large and increasing number of migrants in the world. On December 18th 1990, the General Assembly adopted the international convention on the protection of the rights of migrant workers and members of their families. International Migrants Day is observed throughout many countries, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations through the spread of information on human rights and fundamental political freedoms of migrants, and through sharing of experiences and the design of actions to ensure the protection of migrants.

Migration, in the case of human beings is the act of moving from one place to another. Mainly moving from a country of origin to a new country to start new lives as permanent residents in their new home. Now, Nomadic movements are normally not regarded as migrations as there is no intention to settle in the new place and because the movement is generally seasonal. Only a few nomadic peoples have retained this form of lifestyle in modern times. Also, the temporary movement of people for the purpose of travel, tourism, pilgrimages, or the commute is not regarded as migration, in the absence of an intention to live and settle in the visited places.

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Une ‘Journée internationale de la Bible’, oui…

Ça peut paraître étonnant mais c’est bien vrai:

il y a une journée internationale de la Bible.

La Bible – une vraie bibliothèque – recèle des trésors de toutes sortes.

David Minier nous guide pour en faire la découverte.

World Television Day – 21 November

The first World Television Forum was staged by the United Nations in the mid ’90s, and it was out of this event that World Television Day was born. The forum brought together leading figures from the media industry to analyze the growing impact that TV had on decision-making and public opinion when it comes to issues of peace and security around the planet.

The History of World Television Day
In December 1996 the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the 21st of November World Television Day, the same year the first World Television Forum was held. According to the United Nations, this decision was taken in order to give recognition of the increasing impact television has had on decision-making by bringing various conflicts and threats to peace and security to the world’s attention, as well as its coverage of other major issues, including economic and social. 

World Television Day is not meant to be so much a celebration of the electronic tool itself, but rather of the philosophy which it represents–a philosophy of openness and transparency of world issues. Television has long been thought to represent communication and globalization in the contemporary world. However, not all of the government representatives present saw matters quite that way.

The delegation from Germany said, “Television is only one means of information and an information medium to which a considerable majority of the world population has no access… That vast majority could easily look at World Television Day as a rich man’s day. They do not have access to television. There are more important information media and here I would mention radio in particular.”

Source: Text & Image: DAYSoftheYEAR

 

 

World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse – November 19

In 2000, the Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF), a non-governmental organization, launched the World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse on November 19. WWSF, along with an international coalition of advocacy organizations for women and children’s issues, mobilized governments and societies to take action and prevent child abuse. In 2001, APA, through its International Office, joined the coalition and also marked the day, November 19, as the World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse. APA developed the following fact sheet, « Violence Against Children in the US, » with information on violence against children in the US. It includes tips for identifying and preventing child abuse, with an outline of the association’s contributions to child abuse prevention.

Violence Against Children in the US

  • In 2004, an estimated 3 million children were alleged to have been victims of physical, sexual, verbal and emotional abuse, neglect, abandonment, and death. After investigations, almost 900,000 of these victims were found to have been victims of child maltreatment.
  • In the USA, Children are more likely to die from violence and neglect than from accidents. Child violence permanently disables 18,000 children and youth every year and seriously injures 565,000.
  • Violence and neglect against children kills more than 3 children every day in America. Most of the children who die are younger than six years of age. Of these fatalities, 85 percent were under the age of six; 44 percent of the children were under the age of one.
  • Almost 80 percent of the perpetrators are parents
Source: Text: American Psychological Association Image: ppaccentral.org

 

Journée Internationale de la non-violence – 2 octobre

En juin 2007, l’assemblée générale de l’ONU a décidé de célébrer la Journée Internationale de la non-violence le 2 octobre de chaque année, jour anniversaire de la naissance du Mahatma Gandhi.

Elle souhaitait par ailleurs rendre hommage à l’action de son ancien secrétaire général Kurt Waldheim, décédé le 14 juin de la même année.

La culture de la non-violence et de la paix
Dans sa réflexion, l’assemblée générale de l’ONU a proposé huit grands axes de travail qui sont:

  • le renforcement d’une culture de la paix par l’éducation
  • la promotion et le développement économique et social durable
  • la promotion et le respect de tous les droits de l’homme
  • l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes
  • la participation démocratique
  • le développement de la compréhension, la tolérance et la solidarité
  • le soutien de la communication participative et de la libre circulation de l’information et des connaissances
  • la promotion de la paix et de la sécurité internationales
Un site à visiter : www.journeedelanonviolence.org     Texte : Journée Mondiale   Image : Gandhi : Political Violence at A Glance

International Day for Universal Access to Information – 28 September

The right of access to information is an important human right, necessary for the enjoyment of other human rights.
The right to information is essential for transparent and accountable government.
The right of access to information makes possible the public involvement in formulating social policies and in the decision-making processes of governance.
The right to information can only be effectively exercised and implemented on the basis of laws, regulating this right in accordance with international standards.
Source: Text & Image: www.righttoknowday.net

Journée Internationale du droit d’accès à l’information – 28 septembre

La communauté internationale, au travers d’institutions telles que l’Unesco ou l’Union Européenne reconnaît le droit d’accès à l’information publique comme étant « un droit humain nécessaire pour la protection et la jouissance des autres droits, y compris le droit à la liberté d’expression« .

Bref, on ne plaisante pas avec l’accès à l’information…

Lutter contre la corruption
Permettre au citoyen lambda d’accéder à l’information participe activement à la lutte contre la corruption dans la vie publique; il est aussi une condition indispensable à la promotion de la culture pour tous les citoyens.

S’informer pour participer
Encourager la participation des citoyens à la vie publique et leur permettre de jouir de leurs droits civils et politiques passe, normalement, par la fourniture d’une information sincère et complète à tout un chacun…

Cette journée internationale en est, en 2023, à sa 18è édition.

Source: Texte & Image: Journée Mondiale crédit photo: © Aleksandr Bedrin – fotolia.com

World Telecommunications Day – 17 May

World Telecommunications Day celebrates the constant evolution of one of the most important factors of our lives: communication. The main goal of World Telecommunications Day (WTD) is to highlight the importance of communication and how information travels across the world. It also aims to increase awareness of how crucial communication is in our lives, and stimulate the development of technologies in the field.

The World Telecommunications Day is in tight connections with the International Telegraph Union (ITU), the committee formed in 1865 to support the emerging communication methods of the time. ITU was present throughout all the great breakthroughs in communication – the invention of the telephone in 1876, the launch of the first satellite in 1957 and, ultimately, the birth of the Internet in the 60s. Even though The International Telegraph Union has since changed its name to International Telecommunications Union, it still remains the most important entity in the field of communications, thus remaining in the spotlight at World Telecommunications Day.

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