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STE's Weekly Calendar Alert Bulletin
A weekly bulletin to sensitize our subscribers to upcoming calendar events... breathes a little life, joy, and celebration into otherwise ordinary days.
We also identify "Schedule alerts", those upcoming dates when organizations can expect unanticipated absenteeism, special days when those marking the occasion customarily take time off from work as part of religious practices, or just to celebrate the occasion with family and friends.
Diversity at work - a fact in most organizations. A "branded" online multicultural diversity calendar like this for your organization's intranet / extranet keeps your managers ahead of those events which will affect employee attendance.
Add a "branded" Multicultural Calendar to YOUR organization's intranet and customize it with YOUR organization-specific dates, eg: Founder's day; date of IPO; company picnic, etc.
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DECEMBER
UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS MONTH |
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the UN in 1948 as a response to the Nazi holocaust and to set a standard by which the human rights activities of all nations, rich and poor alike, are to be measured. Some of the Rights are: No one shall be subjected to cruel and inhuman punishment, being entitled to a fair and public hearing by an impartial tribunal, the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, the right to a standard of living to include food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, the right to education, the right to participate in the cultural life of the community, not being arbitrarily deprived of his property, a speedy juried trail and right to legal counsel.
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Schedule consideration: These dates are National holidays or Religious
days when individuals may want to take time off to observe a holiday.
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Schedule consideration: These dates are National holidays or Religious
days when individuals may want to take time off to observe a holiday.
January 1, 2014
New Years Day (International) St. Basil's Day (Greece) |
The Greeks call New Year, St. Basil's Day. Traditionally, gifts are exchanged.
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January 6, 2014
Christmas (Armenia Christian)
January 7, 2014
Christmas (Christian Coptic and Eastern Orthodox) |
On this day, some Eastern churches celebrate the birth of Jesus according to the Julian calendar, which is currently 13 days behind the Gregorian or Western calendar.
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| * January 21, 2014
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (USA)
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This day commemorates the leader of the "Civil Rights" movement in USA. People of all races and religions have benefited from the sacrifices and accomplishments made by this great man. He was a Nobel Prize winner (Peace Prize 1964) and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
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| * January 31, 2014 Chinese New Year / Solnal (China, Buddhist, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea) |
The year of the Horse. This is the year 4712 in the Chinese Lunar calendar and the most important holiday. It is a three-day holiday in China and Hong Kong. The Chinese clean and decorate their homes with the 5 lucky signs of happiness; new clothes are worn and even the poorest buy new shoes, for it is considered bad luck to step down on the ground into old shoes. Vietnamese call it the 'Tet' Festival.
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