Celebrating Days

• ANNUAL DAYS AND WEEKS
• JANUARY
• FEBRUARY

1. 21 February International Mother Language Day

• MARCH

1. 8 March United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace (International Women's Day)
2. 21 March International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
3. Beginning 21 March Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination
4. 22 March World Day for Water
5. 23 March World Meteorological Day

• APRIL

1. 7 April 2004 International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
2. 7 April World Health Day
3. 23 April World Book and Copyright Day

• MAY

1. 3 May World Press Freedom Day
2. 15 May International Day of Families
3. 17 May World Telecommunication Day
4. 21 May World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
5. 22 May International Day for Biological Diversity
6. Beginning 25 May Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories
7. 29 May International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
8. 31 May World No-Tobacco Day

• JUNE

1. 4 June International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
2. 5 June World Environment Day
3. 17 June World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
4. 20 June World Refugee Day
5. 23 June United Nations Public Service Day
6. 26 June International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
7. 26 June International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

• JULY

1. 3 July International Day of Cooperatives (first Saturday of July)
2. 11 July World Population Day

• AUGUST

1. 9 August International Day of the World's Indigenous People
2. 12 August International Youth Day
3. 23 August International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition

• SEPTEMBER

1. 8 September International Literacy Day
2. 16 September International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
3. 21 September International Day of Peace
4. September World Maritime Day (during last week of September)

• OCTOBER

1. 1 October International Day of Older Persons
2. 4 October World Habitat Day (first Monday of October)
3. 4-10 October World Space Week
4. 5 October World Teachers' Day
5. 9 October World Post Day
6. 10 October World Mental Health Day
7. 13 October International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction (second Wednesday of October)
8. 16 October World Food Day
9. 17 October International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
10. 24 October United Nations Day
11. 24 October World Development Information Day
12. 24-30 October Disarmament Week
13. NOVEMBER
14. 6 November International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
15. 16 November International Day for Tolerance
16. 20 November Africa Industrialization Day
17. 20 November Universal Children's Day
18. 21 November World Television Day
19. 25 November International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
20. 29 November International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

• DECEMBER

1. 1 December World AIDS Day
2. 2 December International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
3. 3 December International Day of Disabled Persons
4. 5 December International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
5. 7 December International Civil Aviation Day
6. 10 December Human Rights Day
7. 11 December International Mountain Day
8. 18 December International Migrants Day