Annual Days and Weeks

 

27 January  International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
21 February International Mother Language Day
8 March United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace
21 March International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Beginning 21 March Week of Solidarity with the peoples struggling against Racism and Racial  Discrimination
22 March World Day for Water
23 March World Meteorological Day 
7 April World Health Day
23 April World Book and Copyright Day
3 May World Press Freedom Day
15 May  International Day of Families 
17 May  World Telecommunication Day
21 May World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development 
22  May  International Day for Biological Diversity
Beginning 25 May Week of Solidarity with the peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories 
31 May World No-Tobacco Day
4 June International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
5 June World Environment Day
17 June World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
20 June World Refugee Day
23 June United Nations Public Service Day
26 June  International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 
26 June  International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 
First Saturday of July International Day of Cooperatives
11 July World Population Day
9 August  International Day of the World's Indigenous People
12 August  International Youth Day
23 August  International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
8 September  International Literacy Day
16 September  International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
21 September International Day of Peace
Last Week in September World Maritime Day
1 October International Day of Older Persons 
4-10 October World Space Week
5 October  World Teachers' Day
7 October World Habitat Day (first Monday of October)
9 October  International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction (second Wednesday of October)
9 October World Post Day
10 October  World Mental Health Day
16 October  World Food Day 
17 October  International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
24 October United Nations Day
24 October  World Development Information Day
24-30 October Disarmament Week
6 November  International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
16 November International Day for Tolerance
20 November Africa Industrialization Day
20 November Universal Children's Day
21 November World Television Day
25 November International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
29 November International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
1 December World AIDS Day
2 December International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
3 December International Day of Disabled Persons 
5 December International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
7 December International Civil Aviation Day
10 December Human Rights Day
11 December International Mountain Day
18 December International Migrants Day
19 December United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation