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World Health Day

This year the World Health Organization is celebrating World Health Day on April 7, and will focus on ‘urbanization and health.’ With the campaign "1000 cities - 1000 lives", events will be organized worldwide calling on cities to open up streets for health activities. Stories of urban health champions will be gathered to illustrate what people are doing to improve health in their cities.

Solutions exist to tackle the root causes of urban health challenges Urban planning can promote healthy behaviours and safety through investment in active transport, designing areas to promote physical activity and passing regulatory controls on tobacco and food safety. Improving urban living conditions in the areas of housing, water and sanitation will go a long way to mitigating health risks. Building inclusive cities that are accessible and age-friendly will benefit all urban residents.
Such actions do not necessarily require additional funding, but commitment to redirect resources to priority interventions, thereby achieving greater efficiency. Though this is really great info, it may bring up copyright issues (http://www.who.int/world-health-day/2010/about/en/index.html)


January 27, 2010 | 12:43 PM Comments  0 comments

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International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
On 1 November 2005, the General Assembly designated 27 January as the annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust conducted during the Second World War by the Nazi regime (resolution 60/7). On this day, the United Nations pays tribute to the victims of the Holocaust and seeks to mobilize civil society for Holocaust remembrance and education, to raise awareness and to help prevent any repetition of the crime of genocide.

From there on, on January 27 each year, the United Nations (UN) remembers the Holocaust that affected many people of Jewish origin during World War II. This day is called the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
The day also commemorates when the Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on January 27, 1945. It is hoped that through remembering these events, people will remember the Holocaust and prevent genocide.
Among the millions of innocent Jews and members of other minorities who were killed during the Holocaust were approximately 1.5 million children. Although they were among the most fragile and most vulnerable of the victims, in some ways, these children were also the strongest. Their survival instinct manifested itself in various games, toys and pictures that they created in an effort to cope with the horrors they faced. These and other artefacts are part of the exhibition "No Child's Play" of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, that was inaugurated during the ceremony. A version in German was especially produced for the UNIS event, and will be on display at the VIC from 26 January - 2 February. The exhibition can be viewed as part of a guided tour. Paintings of the series "Art against Oblivion" by the artist and Holocaust survivor Adolf Frankl, made available by the Art Forum Judenplatz, Vienna, were also on display.
At United Nations headquarters in New York, the second annual observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust will be held on 29 January, with a ceremony in the General Assembly Hall. Madame Simone Veil, President of the Foundation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah and herself a survivor of the Holocaust, will deliver the keynote address. The memorial event will also focus on the disabled community as one of the many victim groups of the Nazi regime and highlight the importance of education in promoting tolerance and ending discrimination against all minorities, particularly in light of the adoption by the General Assembly on 13 December 2006 of the landmark Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
On 1 November 2005, the General Assembly designated 27 January as the annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust conducted during the Second World War by the Nazi regime (resolution 60/7). On this day, the United Nations pays tribute to the victims of the Holocaust and seeks to mobilize civil society for Holocaust remembrance and education, to raise awareness and to help prevent any repetition of the crime of genocide.

January 7, 2010 | 2:20 PM Comments  0 comments

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Tread lightly

We at Taking It Global are currently working on an important project that involves the educating of secondary school students to make them aware of their ecological footprint and and the importance of being responsible of it at an early age. Adults who have been going through their lives unaware of their ecological footprint would most likely have difficulties trying to change that, so of course we target our young people, after all they are the ones who will be responsible for ensuring an environmentally friendly society in the near future.

November 26, 2009 | 12:44 PM Comments  0 comments

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Zeitgeist!
Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

Cool movie. Zeitgeist is a movie about our world i.e our government, environment, crime, religion and a lot more.
It also talks about how to make our world a better place, where there may some day be no crime and in turn, eventually, there will be no laws. Check it out! (if you want)

October 23, 2009 | 3:20 PM Comments  0 comments

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