Black Achievement Month 2025

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Black Achievement Month (BAM) is een jaarlijks Nederlands evenement in oktober dat ‘Black Achievers’ (zwarte Nederlanders van Afrikaanse afkomst) en hun bijdrage aan de Nederlandse samenleving bij een breed publiek onder de aandacht brengt, het doel is het tegengaan van racisme, discriminatie, vreemdelingenhaat en intolerantie en het bereiken van volledige inclusie van de zwarte gemeenschap in Nederland.

Het is een initiatief van het Nationaal instituut Nederlands slavernijverleden en erfenis (NiNsee), dat het evenement voor het eerst organiseerde in 2016. In Black Achievement Month vinden allerlei activiteiten plaats, waaronder debatten, exposities, literatuurcollecties, workshops, spoken word- theater-, dans-, muziek- en filmvoorstellingen. Gekoppeld aan BAM is ook de uitreiking van de Black Achievement Awards. Black Achievement Month is voortgekomen uit de Nederlandse viering rond 2010 van Black History Month. Deze viering, die op de “zwarte” kant van de Nederlandse geschiedenis focuste, werd georganiseerd door de Association of Students of African Heritage (ASAH, vertaald: Vereniging van Studenten van Afrikaanse Afkomst) in samenwerking met NiNsee.

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Black Achievement Month

Day of Older Persons 2025

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Between 2017 and 2030, the number of persons aged 60 years or over is projected to grow by 46 per cent (from 962 million to 1.4 billion) globally outnumbering youth, as well as children under the age of 10.

Moreover, this increase will be the greatest and most rapid in the developing world (A/RES/73/143). Population ageing is poised to become one of the most significant social transformations of the 21st century. Older people have always played a significant role in society as leaders, caretakers and custodians of tradition. Yet they are also highly vulnerable, with many falling into poverty, becoming disabled or facing discrimination. As health care improves, the population of older people is growing. Their needs are also growing, as are their contributions to the world. The International Day of Older Persons is an opportunity to highlight the important contributions that older people make to society and raise awareness of the opportunities and challenges of ageing in today’s world.

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Day of Older Persons

World Population Prospects

DESA United Nations Programme on Ageing

Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons

United Nations principles for older persons

Tackling abuse of older people: five priorities for the United Nations decade of healthy ageing (‎2021–2030)‎

Ageism in artificial intelligence for health

Ageism is a global challenge: UN

#InternationalMusicDay 2025

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International Music Day is observed on October 1, a date established by UNESCO in 1975 to celebrate the diverse expressions and global significance of music.

This day pays tribute to musicians and the various musical styles that people of all backgrounds enjoy and share, bringing them together through a shared sentiment. The specific date of celebration may vary from one country to another, but the underlying purpose remains consistent. While some European countries mark it on November 22, in France it’s celebrated on June 21st, and in Uruguay, it falls on October 10. This concept was initiated by Lord Yehudi Menuhin to promote music across all segments of society and uphold UNESCO’s ideals of peace and friendship among nations. Its objectives include fostering the exchange of experiences and mutual appreciation of aesthetic values, as well as advancing the activities of the International Music Council, its international member organizations, national committees, and its overall program policy.

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IInternational Music Day : IMC Honours ‘Gaza Sings’: Uplifting Voices and Resilience Through Music

Asteroid 2025 TF closest approach to Earth

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2025 TF, previously known as C15KM95, is a meter-sized near-Earth asteroid that passed 409 ± 14 km over the surface of Earth’s South Pole on 1 October 2025 00:49 UTC, at a relative speed of 20.9 km/s.

It is the second-closest asteroid flyby of Earth recorded as of 2025, after 2020 VT4. 2025 TF was discovered on 1 October 2025 06:36 UTC by astronomers using the Bok Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, less than 6 hours after the asteroid’s closest approach to Earth.

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2025 TF – Small-Body Database Lookup

Geen nieuw gas! – open brief

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Geen nieuw gas!

We zitten midden in een klimaatcrisis veroorzaakt door fossiele brandstoffen, gas maakt ons bovendien afhankelijk van gevaarlijke autocraten zoals Poetin en Trump én jaagt onze energierekeningen omhoog.

Fossiele brandstoffen riskeren ieders veiligheid. In de Europese Unie dreigt alsnog het reële gevaar dat fossiele gasprojecten worden uitgebreid. Het boren naar meer gas en het bouwen van nieuwe infrastructuur zal Europa in een fossiele houdgreep houden. Geld dat besteed had kunnen worden aan groene innovaties wordt verspild aan nutteloze en onhoudbare projecten. Verslaafd blijven aan fossiel gas zal leiden tot stijgende energierekeningen, vernietiging van de natuur en klimaatchaos. Gas is een vuile, dodelijke fossiele brandstof, net zoals olie en steenkool. De Europese Unie en haar lidstaten moeten stoppen met fossiele brandstofprojecten voordat het te laat is. Teken nu deze open brief en roep de Europese Unie en haar lidstaten op alle nieuwe fossiele brandstofprojecten voorgoed te verbieden.

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Geen nieuw gas!

Europa, breek los van TrumpGas! – petitie

Trump heeft een way out geboden aan Europa, om onder zijn importheffingen uit te komen

ING heeft een keuze: Blijven ze TrumpGas – vloeibaar gas uit de VS – financieren, of breken ze los van fascistisch fossiel?

Roadmap towards ending Russian energy imports – publication

Minister Hermans, zeg NEE tegen Trumps chantage

We reisden samen met Lola Tuthola Lollipop af naar het Amerikaanse consulaat om jullie gas terug te geven aan Trump

De EU laat zich afpersen in de handelsdeal met Trump

Europese politici zijn meteen bereid om te buigen voor Trump

The LNG trap – publicatie

Valpreventieweek NL 2025

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In de Valpreventieweek doet Veiligheid.nl één krachtige oproep: zet senioren in beweging voor valpreventie!

Veiligheid.nl richt zich hierbij op belangrijke stakeholders binnen de ketenaanpak valpreventie. Zij kunnen er namelijk voor zorgen dat ouderen na het invullen van de Valrisicotest in actie komen én na het volgen van een valpreventieve beweeginterventie in beweging blijven. Zo wordt samen een grote stap gezet richting minder valongevallen en meer zelfstandigheid voor senioren.

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Recordaantal 65-plussers op spoedeisende hulp na valpartij

Translation Day / Dag van het Vertalen 2025

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Translation Day is meant as an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation, contributing to development and strengthening world peace and security.

Transposition of a literary or scientific work, including technical work, from one language into another language, professional translation, including translation proper, interpretation and terminology, is indispensable to preserving clarity, a positive climate and productiveness in international public discourse and interpersonal communication. Thus, on 24 May 2017, the General Assembly adopted resolution 71/288 on the role of language professionals in connecting nations and fostering peace, understanding and development, and declared 30 September as International Translation Day. Languages, with their complex implications for identity, communication, social integration, education and development, are of strategic importance for people and the planet. There is growing awareness that languages play a vital role in development, in ensuring cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, but also in attaining quality education for all and strengthening cooperation, in building inclusive knowledge societies and preserving cultural heritage, and in mobilizing political will for applying the benefits of science and technology to sustainable development. An essential factor in harmonious communication among peoples, multilingualism is also regarded by the United Nations General Assembly as a core value of the Organization. By promoting tolerance, multilingualism ensures effective and increased participation of all in the Organization’s work, as well as greater effectiveness, better performance and improved transparency.

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Blasphemy Rights Day / Dag van Recht op Blasfemie / Dag van de Godslastering 2025

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Blasphemy Rights Day

Blasphemy Day, held each year on September 30, also known as International Blasphemy Day or International Blasphemy Rights Day, educates individuals and groups about blasphemy laws and defends freedom of expression, especially the open criticism of religion which is criminalized in many countries.

Blasphemy Day was introduced as a worldwide celebration by the Center for Inquiry in 2009. Events worldwide on the first annual Blasphemy Day in 2009 included an art exhibit in Washington, D.C., and a free speech festival in Los Angeles. Blasphemy Rights Day is a day to show solidarity with those who challenge oppressive laws and social prohibitions against free expression, to support the right to challenge prevailing religious beliefs without fear of violence, arrest, or persecution. Blasphemy Rights Day is observed every September 30 to commemorate the publishing of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, which angered religious believers around the world, many of whom expressed their disapproval with violent protests, riots, and in some cases, murder. While many perceive “blasphemy” as offensive, this event is not intended to ridicule and insult others. Rather, it was created as a reaction against those who would seek to take away the right to satirize and criticize a particular set of beliefs given a privileged status over other beliefs. Observing International Blasphemy Rights Day is a way of showing opposition to any resolutions or laws, binding or otherwise, which discourage or inhibit freedom of speech of any kind. Freedom of expression, including the right to criticize any belief, religious, political, or otherwise, is the only way in which any nation with any modicum of freedom can exist. Without this essential liberty, dissent can be suppressed and silenced by labeling it as “defamation” or “blasphemy.” Even rhetoric that uses the guise of sensitivity, such as “hurting religious feelings” can be twisted to stifle opposition by turning popular sentiment against it.

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Blasphemy Rights Day

We Keep Failing the Blasphemy Test