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World Day of Migrants and Refugees – 25 September 2022

25 septembre 2022
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: building the future, challenge, Concern, conflicts, migrants, persécution, refugees, vulnérable

This year, the World Day of Migrants and Refugees will be celebrated on 25 September. Catholics worldwide are called upon to remember those displaced by conflict and persecution.

ADDITIONAL INFO

The last Sunday of September of every year is the Vatican’s World Day of Migrants and Refugees.

The World Day of Migrants and Refugees (WDMR) is always an occasion to express concern for many different vulnerable people on the move; to pray for the challenges and increase awareness about the opportunities that migration offers.

Pope Francis chose “Building the Future with Migrants and Refugees” as the theme for the 108th World Day of Migrants and Refugees.

 

Source: Text: https://www.icmc.net/calendar/world-day-of-migrants-and-refugees-2022/   Image: migrants-refugees.va

 

World Day Against Traficking in Persons – 30 July 2022

30 juillet 2022
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: abuse, crimes, cyber space, eradication, human trafficking, opportunity, target, use of technology, vulnérable

THEME 2022: “Use and abuse of technology” 

This year’s theme focuses on the role of technology as a tool that can both enable and impede human trafficking.

With the global expansion in the use of technology – intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift of our everyday life to online platforms — the crime of human trafficking has conquered cyber space. The internet and digital platforms offer traffickers numerous tools to recruit, exploit, and control victims; organize their transport and accommodation; advertise victims and reach out to potential clients; communicate among perpetrators; and hide criminal proceeds – and all that with greater speed, cost-effectiveness and anonymity.

Moreover, technology allows these criminals to operate internationally across jurisdictions and evade detection with greater ease. Traffickers use social media to identify, groom and recruit victims, including children; e-mails and messaging services are used for the moral coercion of the victims; and online platforms allow traffickers to widely advertise services provided by victims, including child photographical material.

Crisis situations can also intensify this problem. Criminals profit from the chaos, desperation, and separation of people – particularly women and children – from support systems and family members.

For people on the move, online resources can become a trap, especially when it comes to phony travel arrangements and fake job offers targeting vulnerable groups.

However, in the use of technology also lies great opportunity. Future success in eradicating human trafficking will depend on how law enforcement, the criminal justice systems and others can leverage technology in their responses, including by aiding investigations to shed light on the modus operandi of trafficking networks; enhancing prosecutions through digital evidence to alleviate the situation of victims in criminal proceedings; and providing support services to survivors. Prevention and awareness-raising activities on the safe use of the internet and social media could help mitigate the risk of people falling victim of trafficking online. Cooperation with the private sector is important to harness innovation and expertise for the development of sustainable technology-based solutions to support prevention and combatting of human trafficking.

 

Source: Text: un.org   Image: 123RF

International Women’s Day – 8 March 2022

8 mars 2022
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: challenges, climate, crisis, Gender equality, leaders, poor, vulnérable, Women

Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow

Advancing gender equality in the context of the climate crisis and disaster risk reduction is one of the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.

Women are increasingly being recognized as more vulnerable to climate change impacts than men, as they constitute the majority of the world’s poor and are more dependent on the natural resources which climate change threatens the most.

At the same time, women and girls are effective and powerful leaders and change-makers for climate adaptation and mitigation. They are involved in sustainability initiatives around the world, and their participation and leadership results in more effective climate action.

Continuing to examine the opportunities, as well as the constraints, to empower women and girls to have a voice and be equal players in decision-making related to climate change and sustainability is essential for sustainable development and greater gender equality. Without gender equality today, a sustainable future, and an equal future, remains beyond our reach.

This International Women’s Day, let’s claim “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”.

 

Source: Text: United Nations  Image: Vector Stock

 

Journée Mondiale contre l’esclavage des enfants – 16 avril

16 avril 2021
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: De ceci... de cela...
Mots-clés: assassinat, combats, droits des enfants, esclavage, sports, UNICEF, vulnérable
Parallèlement à la journée de lutte pour l’abolition de l’esclavage (2 décembre) ou la commémoration de l’abolition de l’esclavage en france métropolitaine (le 10 mai), on « célèbre » aussi une Journée de lutte contre l’esclavage des enfants.
Cette journée a été instituée en 1995 après la mort d’un jeune pakistanais de 12 ans qui avait tenté de dénoncer les mauvais traitements subis depuis qu’il avait été vendu pour rembourser une dette familiale. Ce n’est pas une coquille, vous avez bien lu « vendu » !

10 % de la main d’oeuvre potentielle

Les enfants représenteraient plus de 10% du potentiel de la main-d’œuvre mondiale, c’est dire les enjeux. Les enfants esclaves contribuent chaque année pour plus de 13 milliards d’euros au PIB mondial.

Un instrument de guerre commerciale

L’esclavage des enfants est devenu un instrument de la guerre commerciale planétaire qui voit arriver dans nos linéaires habillement, chaussures de sports et autres objects manufacturés.

Certaines grosses entreprises, diffusant des marques connues dans le monde entier, exploitent des jeunes filles et jeunes garçons dans les pays les plus pauvres. Les enfants constituent ainsi le groupe de travail le plus vulnérable et le moins protégé.

Fort heureusement, d’autres entreprises s’engagent aussi dans des combats éthiques pour tenter d’éradiquer ce fléau.

Un site à visiter : www.fides.org    Source: Texte & Image: Journée mondiale

La date du 16 avril a été retenue en l’honneur du pakistanais Iqbal Masih, qui après avoir lui-même échappé à l’esclavage, est devenu, pendant les années 1980-90, un fervent défenseur des droits des enfants, et le visage de la lutte contre l’esclavage moderne.

En 1995, alors qu’il n’avait que 12 ans, Iqbal Masih a été retrouvé assassiné dans des circonstances douteuses.  
 
Depuis, le 16 avril est devenu l’occasion de se pencher sur le sort des quelques 8.5 millions d’enfants esclaves et des 215 millions d’enfants qui travaillent dans le monde.  
 
Joost Kooijmans, conseiller principal d’UNICEF en matière de travail des enfants.

Source: Texte & Image: http://ici.radiocanada.ca (2015)

 

World Day for War Orphans – 6 January

6 janvier 2018
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: abuse, armed conflicts, child soldiers, diseases, handicaps, hunger, malnutrition, orphanage, poverty, violence, vulnérable

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: keepincalendar.com  Image: Unsplash (free download)

 

World Population Day – 11 July

11 juillet 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: Anglophones et anglophiles
Mots-clés: child labor, cities, citizens, crimes, development programmes, food, Gender equality, health, human rights, human trafficking, population, vulnérable

Every year the world continues to get more and more crowded. While we’ve a tendency to pack ourselves into massive cities, and there are presently still long open stretches of countryside, every year that gets whittled away at more and more. The power and food needs of the world continue to place a greater and greater strain on our ability to meet them, and resources in general are becoming harder and harder to come by. World Population Day comes along each year to remind us that our present rate of population growth is unsustainable, and the present social and logistical issues we are experiencing to meet the demand of that population will only get worse if we don’t do something.

History of World Population Day
In 1987 there was an event called “Five Billion Day”, which recognized when the human population boiled over the 5 billion mark. Since then the United Nations Development Programme has been working to anticipate, support, and offset the needs of a rapidly growing population. The population had been deemed to be growing out of control, and an awareness was being spread about the need for family planning, ways to offset poverty, and the ability to ensure that proper maternal health was observed.

The existing strain of supporting our present population is already causing grievous crimes in the areas of human rights and gender equality. As more people come into an a world that’s already doing a poor job of taking care of its citizens, there are more and more of them coming vulnerable to human rights violations such as human trafficking and child labor. World Population Day reminds us that we are part of an ever growing world, and that to ensure there’s a great future ahead for any of us, there has to be a great future for all of us.

Source: Text: DAYSoftheYEAR, Image: Current Affairs 2017

Journée Mondiale de l’enfant Africain – 16 juin

16 juin 2017
Nicole Gregoire
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Catégories: De ceci... de cela...
Mots-clés: action mondiale, célébration, célébrités, dirigants, enfants, événement, lobbying, massacre, mobilisation, mort, orphelins, pauvreté, slums, vulnérable

Le 16 juin, les coalitions africaines de l’action mondiale contre la pauvreté organisent des actions simultanées pour la Journée de l’Enfant Africain.

Cette Journée de l’Enfant Africain est un événement annuel qui commémore le massacre des enfants de Soweto de 1976 par le régime de l’apartheid. Les coalitions de l’action mondiale contre la pauvreté ont choisi cette occasion pour en faire la Journée Africaine du Bandeau Blanc et pour faire une demande régionale auprès des dirigeants des pays concernés afin qu’ils agissent immédiatement pour éradiquer la pauvreté extrême qui cause la mort d’un enfant toutes les 3 secondes en moyenne.

De l’afrique du Sud au continent africain…
En Afrique du Sud, des enfants et des adultes viendront à Soweto pour exiger des dirigeants africains qu’ils aident les orphelins et les enfants vulnérables. Loise Bwambale, membre du parlement pan-africain, dirigera les opérations.

Au Kenya, une mobilisation immense, avec près de 5000 enfants, se rassemblera à Thika. L’événement aura lieu au Kiandutu Slum, dont le pourcentage d’enfants orphelins est le plus élevé. Le vice président sera présent, mais l’invité d’honneur sera un enfant.

Au Sénégal, une manifestation énorme impliquant 500 enfants est prévue. Une réunion géante de lobbying avec le président du Sénégal et des enfants est prévue pendant l’événement. Des célébrités telles que Youssou NDour, Baaba Maal, Coumba Gawlo, Viviane Ndour, Mada Ba, Oumar Pene, Coumba Gawlo, Abdou Djite ont aussi été invitées.

En Tanzanie, des mobilisations et une conférence de presse marqueront la Journée de l’Enfant Africain.

Un site à visiter : www.unicef.fr     Source: Texte: Journée Mondiale Image: Wits University