UN International Years & Days

INTERNATIONAL YEARS DECLARED BY UNITED NATIONS

  • 1968 Human rights
  • 1970 Education year
  • 1979 Racism and racial prejudice
  • 1987 Shelter for the homeless
  • 1975 Women year
  • 1979 Child year
  • 1999 Elderly persons
  • 1981 Disabled persons
  • 1985, 2010-2011 UN, Youth year peace participation development
  • 1994 Family
  • 2005 Micro credit year
  • 2009 Human Rights learning reconciliation
  • 2011 Forests, African descent, youth
  • 2012 Cooperative, sustainable energy
  • 2013 Water cooperation
  • 2014 Family planning (farming) small Island developing states
  • 2015 Soils, light & light based technologies
  • 2016 Pulses
  • 2008 Sanitation, planet earth
  • 2017 Sustainable tourism
  • 2006 Deserts and desertification
  • 2004 Struggle against slavery and its abolition
  • 2001 Volunteers, dialogue monglivilization racism racial xenophobia
  • 1996 Eradication of poverty
  • 1995 Tolerance, II world war victims
  • 1993 Indigenous people
  • 1990 Literacy year

IMPORTANT DAYS

JANUARY
  • 5 January – Louis Braille Day
  • 12 January – National Youth Day
  • 31 January – World Leprosy Eradication Day
FEBRUARY
  • 4 Feb – World Cancer Day
  • 6 Feb. – Zero tolerance to female genital mutilation
  • 20 Feb. World Day of social Justice
MARCH
  • World social work Day – Third Tuesday of March
  • 8 March – Women’s Day
  • 16 March –World consumer Day
  • 16 March -National Vaccination Day
  • 21 March- Racial Discrimination Day
  • 22 March World Water Day
  • 24 March World TB Day
APRIL
  • 4 April-International Mine Awareness Day
  • 7 April- World Health Day
  • 22 April- World Earth Day
  • 25 April -World Malaria Day
  • 28 April- Safety and Health at workday
MAY
  • 15 May-World Family Day
  • 31 May-World No Tobacco Day
JUNE
  • 1 June-World Parents Day
  • 5 June-World Environment Day
  • 14 June-World Blood Donor Day
  • 15 June-World Elder Abuse Day
  • 21 June-World Yoga Day
  • 26 June-World Disabled Day
JULY
  • 2 July-World Cooperatives' Day
  • 11 July-World Population Day
  • 28 July-World Hepatitis Day
  • 30 July-World Day against Trafficking


AUGUST
  • 9 August-World Indigenous people Day
  • 12 August-International Youth Day
  • 19 August-World Humanitarian Day
  • 23August-International Day for the remembrance of Slave Trade
  • 30 August-International Day of Disappeared Persons
SEPTEMBER
  • 5 Sept. – National Teachers Day
  • 8 Sept.-International Literacy Day
  • 21 Sept.- World Alzheimer's Day
OCTOBER
  • 1 Oct.-International Older Persons Day
  • 2 Oct.- International Non Violence Day
  • 3 Oct-World Habitat Day
  • 5 Oct.-International Teacher Day
  • 10 Oct.-Worlds Mental Health Day
  • 11 Oct.-International girl child Day
  • 13 Oct.-International Disaster reduction Day
  • 15 Oct.-International Day of Rural woman
  • 16 Oct.-World Food Day
  • 17 Oct.-International Day of eradication of Poverty
  • 24 Oct.-United Nations Day
NOVEMBER
  • 10 Nov-World Science Day of Peace & Development
  • 14 Nov.-World Diabetes Day
  • 16 Nov.-International Day for Tolerance
  • 16 Nov.-National Press Day
  • 19 Nov.-International Men’s Day
  • 20 Nov.-International Children Day
  • 25 Nov.-International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
DECEMBER
  • 1 Dec.-World AIDS Day
  • 2 Dec.-International Day for Abolition of Slavery
  • 3 Dec.-World Disabled Day
  • 5 Dec.-World Day on Economic and Social Development
  • 9 Dec.-National Balika Divas
  • 9 Dec.-International Crime and Anticorruption Day
  • 10 Dec.-International Human Rights Day