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Après 30 mois de travaux, le Centre Hospitalier Alpes Léman (CHAL) à ouvert ses portes. 

Et si nous faisions une balade…

The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction is an annually designated day to raise awareness about disaster risk reduction, mobilize support for it and showcase how communities and social groups are taking action to reduce their risk to disasters and build resilience. It takes place on October 13th and in 2011-2012, the spotlight is on children and young people! 

Repeatedly portrayed as victims of disaster and climate change, children and young people can and should be encouraged to participate in disaster risk reduction and decision making. UNISDR in partnership with Children in a Changing Climate (Plan International, Save the Children, UNICEF and World Vision,) is calling on people to sign the Children’s Charter to create momentum and demand needed to help children and young people to ‘step up’ as partners in DRR.

The Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) is a unique multi-agency programme aimed at identifying and reducing interlinked environment and security risks through strengthened cooperation in four regions: Eastern Europe, South Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus and Central Asia.

Wetlands and their wildlife are a key part of the global tourism experience: from visiting the underground karst wetlands in Slovenia’s Skocjan caves, to experiencing the breath-taking sunsets at the Port Launay Ramsar Site in the Seychelles, the world’s Ramsar Sites and other wetlands have much to offer the adventurous tourist.

With half of international tourists traveling to wetlands of all types, but particularly in coastal areas, the tourism expenditure linked to wetlands is significant. Globally, the economic activity generated by travel and tourism represents around 5% of GDP and an estimated 6-7% of the world’s jobs. But of course poorly managed tourism can have negative impacts on wetland resources and local livelihoods.

This years World Wetlands Day 2012 draws attention to the need for responsible tourism to support wetlands and people. The Ramsar Convention, whose objective is to ensure the conservation and wise use of wetlands’ key ecological processes, coordinates the day, and they chose messaggio to create an engaging visual to promote this important issue.

The substantial increase in resources dedicated to health through development assistance and other sources in the last ten years is changing the trajectory of AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, as well as other health problems in low- and middle-income countries.

Much more remains to be done, but there are signs of a dramatic turnaround in the fight against these devastating diseases. New HIV infections are declining in many of the countries most affected by the epidemic. More and more countries are in a position to target the elimination of malaria from their territories. The world is on course to halve TB mortality by 2015 in comparison with 1990.

Since its inception in 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has been one of the major engines driving this remarkable progress.

Soon after its founding, the Global Fund became the main financier in global health. It channels two-thirds of the international financing provided to fight TB and malaria, and a fifth of the international financing against AIDS.

In 2011 the new leadership of YMCA World Alliance launched the ‘NEW WAY’, it new vision and strategy for the World Alliance. One of the key focuses for this strategy is on the creation of a global brand centred on young people as global citizens. They are looking to create a credible global voice on Youth issues and to equip youth with the ability and strength to confront systems that produce the issues they are faced with.

One of the World Alliance of YMCA’s key outputs is their informative magazine ‘YMCA World’. In order to reflect the new engagement of the New Way strategy, they decided it was time for a makeover.

The ICEM’s fifth and last ordinary Congress took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in November 2011, with some 800 delegates and guests in attendance. General Secretary Manfred Warda said Argentina was chosen as the venue for this Congress because of eight strong affiliates in the South American nation, including those affiliated to both national labour centres.
 
 “With industrial trade union unity taking shape on the global level, we felt it appropriate that our union affiliates... connect and continue pushing forward on the positive social agenda that has taken root in Argentina,” said Warda.

A key topic of discussion at the congress was the final integration steps in creating a new Global Union Federation together with the International Textile, Garment, Leather Workers’ Federation (ITGLWF) and the International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF), which is scheduled to go ahead in June 2012. 

A l’occasion des rencontres européennes du tourisme et des loisirs sportifs de nature (Euro’Meet), le Territoire de l’Albanais réalise un très beau film de promotion du VTT.

La Journée internationale pour la réduction des risques de catastrophe est une journée de sensibilisation sur les mesures prises par les personnes et les communautés pour agir dans ce sens. Elle se déroule chaque année le 13 octobre et cette année, l'accent est mis sur les enfants et les jeunes!