We hope you have had an opportunity to participate in the fantastic range of events celebrating the cultures and identities of Indigenous Australians this NAIDOC week. 2019 is the International Year of Indigenous Languages and this year’s NAIDOC week celebrations are focused on the significance of Aboriginal languages to history, culture and identity in Australia. Continue Reading
World Population Day – 11 July World Population Day, which seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues, was established by the then-Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989, an outgrowth of the interest generated by the Day of Five Billion, which was observed on 11 July 1987. Continue Reading
2019 theme: COOPS 4 DECENT WORK. According to a recent estimate, cooperatives around the world employ or are the main source of income for more than 279 million people—almost 10% of humanity’s total working population. Beyond these numbers, different studies have confirmed that, by comparison with employment in other sectors, cooperative jobs: tend to be Continue Reading
