INTERNATIONAL DAYS AND EVENTS

INT’L DAYS AND EVENTS

The International Fellowship of Peace observes the following UN Days and Events in accordance with its Aims and Objectives:













January
1: International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust

February
2: International Mother Language Day

March
3: International Women's Day and UN Day for Women's Rights and International Peace
4: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
21-28: Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination 22: World Water Day
23: World Meteorological Day

April
4: International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
7: World Health Day
23: World Book and Copyright Day

May
3: World Press Freedom Day
15: International Day of Families
17: World Information Society Day
21: World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
22: International Day for Biological Diversity
25-June 1: Solidarity Week with the Peoples of Non-Self- Governing Territories
29: International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
31: World No-Tobacco Day

June
4: International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
5: World Environment Day
17: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
20: World Refugee Day
23: United Nations Public Service Day
26: International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking & International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

July
First Saturday: International Day of Cooperatives
11: World Population Day

August
9: International Day of the World's Indigenous People
12: International Youth Day
23: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

September
8: International Literacy Day
16: International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
21: International Day of Peace

October
1: International Day for Older Persons
4– 10: World Space Week
5: World Teacher's Day
First Monday: World Habitat Day
Second Wednesday: Natural Disaster Reduction
9: World Post Day
10: World Mental Health Day
16: World Food Day & ifop Foundation & Realization Day
17: Eradication of Poverty
24: United Nations Day & World Development Information Day
24-30: Disarmament Week

November
6: Prevention of the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
14: World Diabetes Day
16: International Day for Tolerance
Third Sunday: Road Traffic Victims Remembrance
20: Universal Children's Day Africa Industrialization Day
21: World Television Day
25: Elimination of Violence against Women
29: Solidarity with the Palestinian People

December
1: World AIDS Day
2: Abolition of Slavery
3: International Day of Disabled Persons
5: International Volunteer Day
7: International Civil Aviation Day
9: International Anti-Corruption Day
10: Human Rights Day
11: International Mountain Day
18: International Migrants Day
19: UN Day for South-South Cooperation
20: International Human Solidarity Day

Dr S R Mangang
President, ifop