Urbanization, demographic aging, and the marketing of unhealthy lifestyles have sparked a sharp increase in chronic disease like heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes. Long considered the close companions of affluent societies, these diseases now impose around 80 per cent of their burden on low- and middle-income countries.
As the United Nations shifts into a period of new leadership, welcoming Mr. Ban Ki-moon as its eighth Secretary General, the Organization is called upon to respond to challenges as varied as the Boom in information and communication technology, the rapid urbanization of the developing world and natural disasters like the October 2005 South Asian earthquake.
26th November 2010 : participation to the FORUM of THE CHILDREN, a call of the children to the politicians. The children asked the politicians to take care of their rights in their political programs. In the evening participation to the show organized by Unicef for the children. Myriam de Nazareth school presented a poem and a sketch...