Monthly Featured Organizations & Programs
Each month, G.L.O.B.A.L. Justice features various advocacy organizations, justice programs, community events, and leaders that are making a significant impact on the pursuit of justice worldwide. Check out the Features for this month:
Featured advocacy Organization:
Northern Colorado Veterans Resource Center
The Northern Colorado Veterans Resource Center is a navigation hub that connects Veterans to the resources they need while providing case management throughout the process to ensure needs are met. The center was founded by a Marine Veteran who served in Afghanistan. After returning, Harrison Swift quickly began to see the struggles of fellow veterans as they reintegrated into civilian life, realizing that raising awareness wasn’t enough and that veterans needed a place to go to receive assistance from people with shared difficulties and struggles.
Veteran Peer Navigators from the Northern Colorado Veterans Resource Center meet with veterans to address a variety of needs, from housing stability, employment, benefits, education, etc. They are unique because they are also veterans and understand the difficulties veterans face after military service. They have established connections and partnerships for a streamlined conduit to organizations and services.
Featured ArtS:
Celebrating Juneteenth with The Reminders at the Longmont Museum
While the Longmont Museum’s galleries are under renovation, summer programming has taken to the outdoors! Join the Longmont Museum for a Community Concert on June 18th at 7:00 pm at Carr Park (1301 21st Ave, Longmont, CO 80501) for a special pop-up concert in celebration of Juneteenth featuring The Reminders. A rare and remarkable musical duo with undeniable magical chemistry, The Reminders seamlessly blend razor sharp rhythms and raw, soulful vocals with reggae-tinged hip-hop beats to highlight their inspiring messages. Allow The Reminders to take you on a journey around the world, with Big Samir’s global perspective, Aja Black’s angelic voice, and songwriting that will lift you up.
Featured Publication:
The men's health gap: men must be included in the global health equity agenda from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization
In most parts of the world, health outcomes among boys and men continue to be substantially worse than among girls and women. The Global Burden of Disease study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in 2010 (GBD 2010 study) showed that throughout the period from 1970 to 2010, female life expectancy at birth increased from 61.2 to 73.3 years, whereas male life expectancy rose from 56.4 to 67.5 years.
In many societies, men generally enjoy more opportunities, privileges and power than women, yet these multiple advantages do not translate into better health outcomes. According to the WHO European Region’s review of the social determinants of health, men’s poorer survival rates “reflect several factors - greater levels of occupational exposure to physical and chemical hazards, behaviours associated with male norms of risk-taking and adventure, health behaviour paradigms related to masculinity and the fact that men are less likely to visit a doctor when they are ill and, when they see a doctor, are less likely to report on the symptoms of disease or illness.”
Any serious effort to improve public health must include attention to the health needs of both sexes and responsiveness to the differences between them. Attention to men’s and women’s health will be particularly important in tackling the global epidemic of noncommunicable diseases.
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