Holidays - United
Nations
(date began in brackets)
All Days are for Drumming for
Peace. We are intending to focus on
those days that are highlighted below and also the following six Days:
December 31/January 1, March 21, June 21, September 21, and December 21.
This gives us 20 days per year to focus attention on. Select as many as you desire and more if you
wish!!
JOIN IN and tell your friends.
24 October United Nations Day
8 March (1975) United Nations Day
for Women's Rights and International Peace
21 March (1967) International Day
for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
22 March (1993) World Day for Water
3 May (1994) World Press Freedom Day
15 May (1994) International Day of
Families
22 May (2001) International Day for
Biological Diversity
4 June (1983) International Day of
Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
5 June (1973) World Environment Day
17 June (1995) World Day to Combat
Desertification and Drought
20 June (2001) World Refugee Day
26 June (1998) International Day in
Support of Victims of Torture
26 June (1988) International Day
against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
1st Saturday in
July(1995)International Day of Cooperatives
11 July (1987)1987Day of Five
Billion
11 July (1990) World Population Day
9 August (1995) International Day of the World's Indigenous People
12 August (2000) International Youth Day
September, opening Day of
the General Assemby (1981) International Day of Peace
16 September (1995) International
Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
1 October (1991) International Day of Older Persons
1st Monday in October (1986) World
Habitat Day
2nd Wednesday in October (2000)
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
16 October (1980) World Food Day
17 October (1993) International Day
for the Eradication of Poverty
24 October (1972) World Development Information Day
16 November (1997) International Day for Tolerance
20 November (1990)
Africa Industrialization Day
20 November (1959) Universal Children's Day
21 November (1997) World Television
Day
25 November (2000) International Day for the Elimination of Violence
against Women
29 November (1977) International Day of Solidarity with
the Palestinian People
1 December (1989) World AIDS Day
2 December (1949) International Day
for the Abolition of Slavery
3 December (1992) International Day
of Disabled Persons
5 December (1986) International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social
Development
7 December (1996) International
Civil Aviation Day
10 December (1950) Human Rights
Day
18 December (2001) International
Migrants Day
29 December (1995) International Day
for Biological Diversity
The following days are also observed but we do not know whether
they were determined by the U.N. or by other bodies, nor when they were first
observed
.21 FebruaryInternational Mother
Language Day
23 MarchWorld Meteorological Day
7 AprilWorld Health Day
23 AprilWorld Book and Copyright Day
17 MayWorld Telecommunication Day
31 May World No-Tobacco Day
23 August International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its
Abolition
8 September International Literacy Day
During the Last Week in
SeptemberWorld Maritime Day
5 October World Teachers' Day
9 October World Post Day
10 October World Mental Health Day
Weeks
21-27 MarchWeek of Solidarity with the
Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination
25-31 MayWeek of Solidarity with the
Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories
4-10 OctWorld Space Week
24-30 Oct Disarmament Week
Years
1994Year of the Families
1995 International Year for
Tolerance
2001 United Nations Year of Dialogue
among Civilizations
2001 International Year of
Volunteers
2001 International Year of
Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination,Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance
2002 International Year of Mountains
2002 International Year of Ecotouris
2003 International Year of
Freshwater
2005 International Year of
Microcredit
Decades
1990 - 2000 International Decade for
the Eradication of Colonialism
1993 - 2002 Asian and Pacific Decade
of Disabled Persons
1993 - 2002 Second Industrial
Development Decade for Africa
1993 - 2003 Third Decade to Combat
Racism and Racial Discrimination
1994 - 2004 International Decade of the World's Indigenous People
1995 - 2004 United Nations
Decade for Human Rights Education
1997 - 2006 United Nations Decade
for the Eradication of Poverty
2001 - 2010 International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence
for the Children of the World
2001 - 2010 Second International
Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism