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Fair Trade Day – 13 May 2023

13 mai 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: achievements, bananas, campaigns, Climate change, coffee, contribution, decent wages, economic crisis, exploitation, impact, jeans, objectives, poverty, vulnerable populations, working conditions

We here in the first world take our coffee, bananas, jeans and sneakers for granted, but there are many people in other countries that are not so lucky. Every day, tens of thousands of people in various Asian, African and South American countries – men, women and even children – work themselves to the bone in nearly unbearable conditions for pennies so we can continue to enjoy those things. However, there are many people in this world who feel that everyone deserves decent wages and working conditions, regardless of where they live, and these people have created Fair Trade Day.

Fair Trade Day is a global event that aims to draw attention to the objectives and achievements of the Fair Trade movement. The Fair Trade movement campaigns to improve the lives of workers and small producers, especially those within developing economies, by asserting their rights and raising their visibility within international trade. The movement invites consumers to participate in its campaign by choosing Fair Trade alternatives to existing products.

The History of Fair Trade Day
World Fair Trade Day was created by the the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) in 2004, though the WFTO itself came into existence 15 years earlier, in 1989. WFTO is a global association of 324 organizations in over 70 countries, and Fair Trade Day takes place on the second Saturday of May of each year, and it is an inclusive worldwide festival of events celebrating Fair Trade as a tangible contribution to the fight against poverty and exploitation, climate change and the economic crisis that has the greatest impact on the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Source: Text & Image: DAYS of the YEAR

World AIDS Orphans Day – 7 May

7 mai 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: basic rights, Care, Children, communities, extended families, families, human suffering, poverty, problems, support, vulnerability

Children orphaned by AIDS are just a fraction of the problem, as millions more have been made vulnerable. Behind the statistics are millions of stories of human suffering. The AIDS crisis has a catastrophic impact on households and communities – deepening poverty and exacerbating hardships. More than 95 percent of children affected by AIDS, including orphans, continue to live with their extended families. However, these families are increasingly overwhelmed by poverty and struggle to protect and raise the children in their care.

Despite progress in funding, preventing and treating AIDS, the world is ignoring the basic needs of millions of vulnerable children. Few resources are reaching the families and communities that provide the front-line response, even though they provide the vast majority of care and support to orphaned and vulnerable children. A generation will be lost if we do not take urgent measures to support the basic rights of children and the families and communities that care for them. We can fight AIDS if we organize a long-term response supported by a strong political will.

Source: Text: FXB  Image: USAID

World Asthma Day – 2 May

2 mai 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: air quality, awareness, Care, disease, environment, genetic inheritance, minority communities, poverty, sufferers, treatment

Millions of people all over the world suffer from Asthma, and if you’ve ever met one who suffers from it then you’re familiar with the pssst psst sound of the inhalers that make a relatively normal day to day life possible for them. World Asthma Day is dedicated to raising awareness about this pernicious disease and seeks to bring awareness and advanced asthma care to sufferers throughout the world.

History of World Asthma Day
World Asthma Day was initially established in 1998 by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA). While almost all of us are familiar with the sound and visual of an inhaler for Asthma being used, not all of us are aware of the actual nature, cause, and that there are multiple types of asthma out there. The truth of the matter is asthma isn’t entirely understood, what is known is that there are multiple factors at play in the complex chemistry that creates an asthma sufferer. These include genetic interactions and elements in the environment that can change both the severity and how likely it is to respond to treatment.

The known aggravators of asthma are many and include everything from allergens, air pollution, and other chemicals that can appear in the environment that irritate the lungs. In high enough concentrations these factors can cause serious asthma attacks in sufferers and aggravate cases that are otherwise mild.

Asthma is incredibly prevalent in those areas that suffer from low air quality as a result, and those areas also tend to be those that house low-income and minority communities. As such these already disadvantaged individuals are the highest sufferers of this pernicious disease. An added factor is psychological stress, and again this element is particularly high in those living on the edge of poverty, increasing its occurrence there further.

Source: Text: DAYS of the YEAR  Image: Medscape

 

 

World Day of War Orphans – 6 janvier

6 janvier 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: abuse, child soldiers, discrimination, disease, landmines, malnutrition, orphans, poverty, war

Civilians bear the brunt of the suffering in war. Of the big number of war victims, the most often neglected are children.

Orphans throughout the world face many challenges: Malnutrition, starvation, disease, and decreased social attention. As the most vulnerable population on planet Earth, they have no one to protect them and are most likely to suffer from hunger, disease, and many other problems.

In recent decades, the proportion of civilian casualties in armed conflicts has increased dramatically and is now estimated at more than 90 per cent. About half of the victims are children.
An estimated 20 million children have been forced to flee their homes because of conflict and human rights violations and are living as refugees in neighbouring countries or are internally displaced within their own national borders.

More than 2 million children have died as a direct result of armed conflict over the last decade.
More than three times that number, at least 6 million children, have been permanently disabled or seriously injured.
More than 1 million have been orphaned or separated from their families.
Between 8,000 and 10,000 children are killed or maimed by landmines every year.

An estimated 300,000 child soldiers – boys and girls under the age of 18 – are involved in more than 30 conflicts worldwide. Child soldiers are used as combatants, messengers, porters, cooks and to provide sexual services. Some are forcibly recruited or abducted, others are driven to join by poverty, abuse and discrimination, or to seek revenge for violence enacted against themselves and their families.

Sadly, however, they rarely receive the time, attention, and love for optimal social and personal development. Research reveals that children growing up in an orphanage experience emotional, social, and physical handicaps. Without a doubt, the best place for a child to grow up is in a stable family with a loving father and mother.

Source: Text: Q9 Canada Data Center   Image: Earth Times

World Population Day – 11 July

10 juillet 2016
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: adolescent pregnancy, challenges, Child marriage, development programme, health, human rights, poverty, reproductive health, UN

2016-teenage-girls« On this World Population Day, I urge all Governments, businesses and civil society to support and invest in teenage girls. Everyone deserves the benefits of economic growth and social progress. Let us work together to ensure a life of security, dignity and opportunity for all. » Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

2016 Theme: Investing in teenage girls.
In 1989, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme recommended that 11 July be observed by the international community as World Population Day, a day to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues. This year’s theme is ‘Investing in teenage girls.’

Teenage girls around the world face enormous challenges. Many are considered by their communities or parents to be ready for marriage and motherhood. Many are forced from school, damaging their future prospects. Even among girls who stay in school, access to basic information about their health, human rights and reproductive rights can be hard to come by, leaving them vulnerable to illness, injury and exploitation. These challenges are exacerbated among marginalized girls, such as members of ethnic minorities or those living in poverty or remote areas.  Yet when teenage girls are empowered, when they know about their rights and are given the tools to succeed, they become agents of positive change in their communities.

UNFPA’s programmes aim to end child marriage, curb adolescent pregnancy, and to empower girls to make informed choices about their health and lives. In 2015 alone, UNFPA programmes helped 11.2 million girls between ages 10 and 19 gain access to sexual and reproductive health services and information.

Source: Text: UN   Image: teenage girls © UNFPA/Anra Adhikari

Journée mondiale du bandeau blanc contre la pauvreté – 1 juillet

1 juillet 2016
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: De ceci... de cela...
Mots-clés: coalition mondiale, Make poverty history, objectifs du millénaire 2000, poverty

220px-Make_Poverty_History_band_plasticA l’occasion de la journée mondiale du bandeau blanc, vendredi 1er juillet, la coalition « 2005 : plus d’excuses ! » vous invite à porter un bracelet blanc à votre poignet la semaine précédent le 1er juillet et le jour même, en signe de soutien à l’action mondiale contre la pauvreté. Le Secours Catholique et le Comité Catholique contre la Faim et pour le Développement (CCFD) sont membres de l’opération.

Cette coalition mondiale a pour objectif d’interpeller les Etats, qui ont signé les Objectifs du Millénaire en 2000, pour qu’ils respectent leurs engagements et prennent dès maintenant des mesures concrètes pour réduire de moitié la pauvreté dans le monde d’ici 2015. Le Secours Catholique / Caritas France est fortement engagé dans cette campagne. Il est une des 6 organisations du comité de pilotage, avec Agir Ici, le CCFD, le CRID, Coordination Sud et la CFDT. En France, ce sont plus de soixante organisations et syndicats réunis au sein de « 2005 : plus d’excuses ! » qui portent cette campagne.

Le bandeau blanc est le symbole de l’Action Mondiale contre la pauvreté qui regroupe des centaines d’organisations et de citoyens à travers le monde.

Un site à visiter : www.inxl6.org   Source: Texte: Journée mondiale;  Image: Wikipedia

World Day of Action Against Hunger – 15 June

15 juin 2016
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: adequate food, challenges, food insecurity, hunger, malnutrition, Millenium Development Goals-MDG, poverty

The 15th of June is the global day of action against hunger and is an opportunity to learn more about the challenges concerning food insecurity and malnutrition globally. Today, almost 870 million people worldwide are chronically undernourished and every day, 10,000 women and children under 5 years old die due to malnutrition.

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Source: Text & Image: Acted

Why care about hunger?
Because the right to food is a basic human right.   In a world of plenty, 805 million people, one in nine worldwide, live with chronic hunger. The costs of hunger and malnutrition fall heavily on the most vulnerable.

60% of the hungry in the world are women.
Almost 5 million children under the age of 5 die of malnutrition-related causes every year.
4 in 10 children in poor countries are malnourished damaging their bodies and brains.
Every human being has a fundamental right to be free from hunger and the right to adequate food. The right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child has the physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement.

Because we can end hunger in our lifetime. It’s possible. The world produces enough food to feed every person on the planet. In September 2000, world leaders signed a commitment to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015. MDG #1 is eradicate extreme poverty and hunger and includes three targets.  Since then:

Forty countries have already achieved the first target, to halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by 2015.
In addition, over the past 20 years, the likelihood of a child dying before age five has been nearly cut in half, which means about 17,000 children are saved every day. 
Extreme poverty rates have also been cut in half since 1990.
The challenge is significant, but these results show us that when we focus our attention, we can make big strides.

Source: Text: World Food Day

World AIDS Orphans Day – 7 May

6 mai 2016
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: AIDS, basic needs, Care, families, orphans extended family, poverty, UN, vulnerable children

3684189485Fifth World AIDS Orphans Day: Tens of “Circles of Hope” are created worldwide by young people to remind governments of the objectives set in 2001, when they signed the United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS.

Children orphaned by AIDS are just a fraction of the problem, as millions more have been made vulnerable. Behind the statistics are millions of stories of human suffering. The AIDS crisis has a catastrophic impact on households and communities – deepening poverty and exacerbating hardships. More than 95 percent of children affected by AIDS, including orphans, continue to live with their extended families. However, these families are increasingly overwhelmed by poverty and struggle to protect and raise the children in their care.

Despite progress in funding, preventing and treating AIDS, the world is ignoring the basic needs of millions of vulnerable children. Few resources are reaching the families and communities that provide the front-line response, even though they provide the vast majority of care and support to orphaned and vulnerable children. A generation will be lost if we do not take urgent measures to support the basic rights of children and the families and communities that care for them. We can fight AIDS if we organize a long-term response supported by a strong political will.

Source: Text & Image: FXB Foundation

World Day of Social Justice – 20 February

19 février 2016
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: equality, fundamental freedoms, migrants, poverty, prosperity, respect for human rights, Social justice, unemployment, values, world peace

social justice, fr.dreamstime.comWorld Day of Social Justice is a day recognizing the need to promote efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion and unemployment.Many organizations, including the UN and the International Labour Office, make statements on the importance of social justice for people. Many organizations also present plans for greater social justice by tackling poverty, social and economic exclusion and unemployment. The United Nations General Assembly has decided to observe 20 February annually, approved on 26 November 2007 and starting in 2009, as the World Day of Social Justice.

As recognized by the World Summit, social development aims at social justice, solidarity, harmony and equality within and among countries and social justice, equality and equity constitute the fundamental values of all societies. To achieve “a society for all” governments made a commitment to the creation of a framework for action to promote social justice at national, regional and international levels. They also pledged to promote the equitable distribution of income and greater access to resources through equity and equality and opportunity for all. The governments recognized as well that economic growth should promote equity and social justice and that “a society for all” must be based on social justice and respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Social justice is an underlying principle for peaceful and prosperous coexistence within and among nations. We uphold the principles of social justice when we promote gender equality or the rights of indigenous peoples and migrants. We advance social justice when we remove barriers that people face because of gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture or disability.

Source: Text: Wikipedia   Image: fr.dreamstime.com