Cooperazione, Emergenza e Sviluppo
Instituted by the United Nations General Assembly, first held in 2001, on June 20th every year the World Refugee Day is now celebrated, to commemorate the approval in 1951 of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. An important opportunity to raise public awareness on the often desperate condition of the refugees. There are […]
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World Environment Day (WED) is observed every year on 5 June, established by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 15th 1972, in memory of the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in June of that year. On that occasion the Stockholm Declaration was adopted, establishing the 26 […]
Continue“In a world afflicted by conflicts and divisions, peace is a foundation on which to build the future. The peace parks are the pillars of this process”. These are Nelson Mandela’s words, the promoter of the “Peace Parks”, the man to whom the women of the native communities of the Limpopo Park sing sacred thanksgiving […]
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World water day (22nd March) is celebrated on the recommendation of the United Nations in 1992 within the Agenda 21 directive, as a result of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the first worldwide conference of heads of state on the environment. 844 million people in the world do not have access to drinking water […]
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The malarial killer parasite, Plasmodium Falciparum, gets into the human body when an infected anopheles mosquito sucks blood. The symptoms appear from 9 to 14 days after the bite. Typical symptoms of malaria are fever, nausea, headache and vomit, as well as symptoms typical of influenza. Children can also suffer from convulsions, serious anaemia and, […]
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In the last ten years the fight against malaria has made great progress, even if no vaccine exists yet. In Italy this disease was eradicated in 1970 and in 2016 the World Health Organisation ratified its end in all Europe. Even so every year 214 million cases of malaria are recorded, to the point that […]
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World Food Day (16th October) is celebrated world-wide to commemorate the foundation of WHO, the United Nations Organisation for food and agriculture. The WHO was, in fact, established in Quebec, on October 16th 1945. Every year this day raises a different theme: in 2016 the message was “The climate is changing. Food and Agriculture must […]
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World Earth Day goes back to 22nd April 1970 when, following the petroleum leak of the year before on the coast of Santa Barbara, in California, a spotlight was at last turned on and 20 million American citizens joined a rally in defence of Nature. On that occasion Senator Nelson gave a legendary speech which […]
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AIDS, the auto immune deficiency syndrome, is a disease of the human immune system caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The disease interferes with the immune system reducing it’s efficacy and putting the infected person at greater risk from infections. Those who contract the HIV virus are called seropositive and are not ill from […]
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