UN Days

Individuals and groups can help to make UN Days much more effective through meditation and prayer. On this site there is a meditation in support of the UN Days and information on ways to participate in the UN Days & Years Meditation Initiative

Here you will find information on the UN designated Days during 2008. Information provided includes some backround, links to the UN site on the Day (where such a site exists), together with key thoughts for reflection.

The UN Days are arranged in date order. Click on the Day you are interested in from this index:

21 FebruaryInternational Mother Language Day
8 MarchUnited Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace
21 MarchInternational Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination & Week of Solidarity
22 MarchWorld Day for Water
23 MarchWorld Meteorological Day
7 AprilWorld Health Day
23 AprilWorld Book & Copyright Day
3 MayWorld Press Freedom Day
15 MayInternational Day of Families
17 MayWorld Telecommunication and Information Society Day
22 MayInternational Day for Biological Diversity
25 May - 1 JuneWeek of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories
31 MayWorld No-Tobacco Day
4 JuneInternational Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
5 JuneWorld Environment Day
17 JuneWorld Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
20 JuneWorld Refugee Day
23 JuneUnited Nations Public Service Day
26 JuneInternational Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
26 JuneInternational Day in Support of Victims of Torture
5 JulyInternational Day of Cooperatives
11 JulyWorld Population Day
9 AugustInternational Day of the World's Indigenous People
12 AugustInternational Youth Day
23 AugustInternational Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
8 SeptemberInternational Literacy Day
16 SeptemberInternational Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
21 SeptemberInternational Day of Peace
22 - 30 SeptemberWorld Maritime Day
1 OctoberInternational Day of Older Persons
6 OctoberWorld Habitat Day
4 - 10 OctoberWorld Space Week
5 OctoberWorld Teachers Day
9 OctoberWorld Post Day
10 OctoberWorld Mental Health Day
8 OctoberInternational Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
16 OctoberWorld Food Day
17 OctoberInternational Day for the Eradication of Poverty
24 OctoberWorld Development Information Day
24 OctoberUnited Nations Day
24 - 30 OctoberDisarmament Week
6 NovemberInternational Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
16 NovemberInternational Day for Tolerance
20 NovemberAfrica Industrialisation Day
20 NovemberUniversal Children's Day
21 NovemberWorld Television Day
25 NovemberInternational Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
29 NovemberInternational Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
1 DecemberWorld AIDS Day
2 DecemberInternational Day for the Abolition of Slavery
3 DecemberInternational Day of Persons with Disabilities
5 DecemberInternational Volunteer Day for Economic & Social Development
7 DecemberInternational Civil Aviation Day
10 DecemberHuman Rights Day
11 DecemberInternational Mountain Day
18 DecemberInternational Migrants Day
27 JanuaryHolocaust Remembrance Day
4 AprilInternational Day of Mine Awareness & Assistance in Mine Action
21 MayWorld Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
29 MayInternational Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
16 NovemberWorld Day for Remembrance of Road Traffic Victims and Their Families
19 DecemberUN Day for South-South Cooperation
20 DecemberInternational Human Solidarity Day
23 - 29 AprilUnited Nations Global Road Safety Week
8 & 9 MayTime of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War
14 NovemberWorld Diabetes Day
2 OctoberInternational Day of Non-Violence
2 AprilWorld Autism Awareness day
20 FebruaryWorld Day of Social Justice - begins 2009
25 MarchInternational Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
15 SeptemberInternational Day of Democracy
15 OctoberInternational Day of Rural Woment

 

 

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