World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims / Dag ter Herdenking van Verkeersslachtoffers 2024

The Global status report on road safety, launched by WHO in December 2018, highlights that the number of annual road traffic deaths has reached 1.35 million, road traffic injuries are now the leading killer of people aged 5-29 years.

The burden is disproportionately borne by pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, in particular those living in developing countries. The report also indicates that progress to realize Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.6 – which calls for a 50% reduction in the number of road traffic deaths by 2020 – remains far from sufficient. More than half of all road traffic deaths are among vulnerable road users: pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists. Pedestrians, cyclists, and riders of motorized 2- and 3-wheelers and their passengers are collectively known as “vulnerable road users” and account for half of all road traffic deaths around the world. A higher proportion of vulnerable road users die in low-income countries than in high-income countries. Since the adoption of the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 60/5, the observance has spread to a growing number of countries on every continent. The Day has become an important tool in global efforts to reduce road casualties. It offers an opportunity for drawing attention to the scale of emotional and economic devastation caused by road crashes and for giving recognition to the suffering of road crash victims and the work of support and rescue services. A dedicated website was launched to make the Day more widely known and to link countries through sharing common objectives and the remembrance of people killed and injured in crashes. Also, to highlight the plight of children on the world’s roads and generate action to better ensure their safety, the UN organizes the Global Road Safety Week.

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World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030

2024-11-17, Lief dagboek

Zondag; Wat eten we vandaag?; Aanvallen in Amsterdam op 7 en 8 november 2024; Meteorenzwerm Leoniden; Van Kooten en De Bie; Vroege Vogels.

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#StopSuicide Survivors of Suicide Loss Day / Dag voor de Nabestaanden van Zelfdoding 2024

Survivors of Suicide Loss Day is an event in which survivors of suicide loss come together to find connection, understanding, and hope through their shared experience.

In 1999, Senator Harry Reid, who lost his father to suicide, introduced a resolution to the United States Senate, leading to the creation of International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day. Also known as Survivor Day, the day was designated by the United States Congress as a day on which those affected by suicide can join together for healing and support. It was determined that Survivor Day would always fall on the Saturday before American Thanksgiving, as the holidays are often a difficult time for suicide loss survivors. Each year, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention supports hundreds of large and small Survivor Day events around the world.

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Survivors of Suicide Loss Day

#ToleranceDay Wereld Dag van de Tolerantie / Dag van de Verdraagzaamheid / International Day for Tolerance 2024

The International Day for Tolerance is an annual observance day, observed on 16 November, declared by UNESCO (UNESCO 28 C/Resolution 5.61; A/RES/51/95) in 1995 to generate public awareness of the dangers of intolerance.

This action followed the adoption of a Declaration of Principles on Tolerance by UNESCO’s Member States on 16 November 1995. Among other things, the Declaration affirms that tolerance is neither indulgence nor indifference. It is respect and appreciation of the rich variety of our world’s cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human. Tolerance recognizes the universal human rights and fundamental freedoms of others. People are naturally diverse; only tolerance can ensure the survival of mixed communities in every region of the globe.

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Day for Tolerance

World Philosophy Day 2024

In 2005 the UNESCO General Conference proclaimed that World Philosophy Day would be celebrated every third Thursday of November.

Philosophy is the study of the nature of reality and existence, of what is possible to know, and of right and wrong behavior. It comes from the Greek word phílosophía, meaning ‘the love of wisdom.’ It is one of the most important fields of human thought as it aspires to get at the very meaning of life.

  • to renew the national, subregional, regional and international commitment to philosophy;
  • to foster philosophical analysis, research and studies on major contemporary issues, so as to respond more effectively to the challenges that are confronting humanity today;
  • to raise public awareness of the importance of philosophy and its critical use in the choices arising for many societies from the effects of globalization or entry into modernity;
  • to appraise the state of philosophy teaching throughout the world, with special emphasis on unequal access;
  • to underline the importance of the universalization of philosophy teaching for future generations.

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World Philosophy Day

2024-11-15, Lief dagboek

Vrijdag; Wat eten we vandaag?; Gaza−Israël oorlog 2023 – …; Aanvallen in Amsterdam; Syrië Burgeroorlog; UAP & Pentagon; Dag van de Gevangen Schrijver / Dag van de Vermoorde Schrijver; NAM wil niet meer meebetalen.

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NAM wil niet meer meebetalen aan leefbaarheid en economie in Groningen

Dag van de Gevangen Schrijver / Dag van de Vermoorde Schrijver / Day of the #ImprisonedWriter 2024

PEN International, de eerste wereldwijde vereniging van schrijvers, is de initiatiefnemer van Dag van de Gevangen Schrijver en de Vermoorde Schrijver.

Deze dag gaat om het stilstaan bij de gevangengenomen schrijver en het herdenken van de verdwenen schrijver of de vermoorde schrijver. De dag heeft ook betrekking op een dichter, journalist of blogger, deze dag is voor iedereen die betrokken is bij het geschreven of gesproken woord. PEN roept wereldwijd autoriteiten op om iedereen vrij te laten die uitsluitend gevangen is gezet omdat gebruik werd gemaakt van het recht op vrijheid van meningsuiting, recht op vrijheid van vreedzame vereniging en/of vergadering. Dat vrijheid van meningsuiting niet in elk land zo vanzelfsprekend is helaas meer dan bekend. Elk jaar zet PEN International een paar mensen in de spotlight. Geen enkele vorm van geweld zal het woord overwinnen want de pen zal altijd sterker zijn dan de kogel.

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Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2024