IASP offers World Suicide Prevention Day banners in 39 Languages

Aug. 22, 2010 - PRLog -- The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) co-sponsor World Suicide Prevention Day every year on September 10th. This year's theme is, "Many Faces, Many Places: Suicide Prevention Across the World."

The IASP has prepared World Suicide Prevention Day banners in 39 languages to be used by bloggers wishing to help increase suicide prevention awareness locally and worldwide by writing about suicide and suicide prevention in their native languages. The banners can be downloaded and used on Blogs and Web sites.

World Suicide Prevention Day Banners
http://www.iasp.info/wspd/2010_wspd_banner.php

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about one million people die by suicide every year; this represents a “global” mortality rate of 16 per 100,000, or one death every 40 seconds, or about 3,000 deaths by suicide daily.Suicide rates in many developing countries have been steadily rising in recent years.

Established in Vienna, in 1960, by the late Professor Erwin Ringel, IASP is the key Non-Government Organization in official relations with the World Health Organization in addressing suicide. IASP has brought global attention to the unacceptable loss of approximately 1 million people each year worldwide who die by suicide.

IASP is a unique multidisciplinary organization with its membership coming from 50 countries, primarily from the mental health professions, but with additional members from such disciplines as sociology, social work, anthropology, medicine, public health, education, corrections, probation, coroners/medical examiners, pathology and philosophy.


IASP – World Suicide Prevention Day
http://www.iasp.info/wspd/

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The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that includes suicide prevention professionals and volunteers from more than 50 countries and is in official relations with the WHO.