This international day celebrates how people and communities around the world are reducing their exposure to disasters and raising awareness about the importance of reining in the risks that they... Continue Reading »
The crucial role that women and girls play in ensuring the sustainability of rural households and communities, improving rural livelihoods and overall wellbeing, has been increasingly recognized. Even so, women... Continue Reading »
World Food day is held to commemorate the founding of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. Each year has a different theme with organized events.
This international day is designated to bring awareness to poverty as not solely an economic issue, but rather a multidimensional phenomenon that encompasses a lack of both income and the... Continue Reading »
UN Day marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. With the ratification of this founding document by the majority of its signatories, including... Continue Reading »
The General Assembly in 1972 established World Development Information Day to draw the attention of the world to development problems and the need to strengthen international cooperation to solve them.
The General Conference of UNESCO approved the commemoration of a World Day for Audiovisual Heritage in 2005 as a mechanism to raise general awareness of the need to preserve and... Continue Reading »
This World Day is to promote the international community’s interest in global urbanization, push forward cooperation among countries in meeting opportunities and addressing challenges of urbanization, and contributing to sustainable... Continue Reading »
Día de los Muertos—the Day of the Dead—is a holiday celebrated on November 1 and 2. This holiday honors the dead with festivals and lively celebrations, a typically Latin American custom that combines indigenous Aztec ritual with Catholicism, brought... Continue Reading »
This International Day was designated by the UN to urge member states to implement definite measures countering impunity of killers of journalists for bringing information to the public. This day... Continue Reading »
