International Day of the Girl Child
This international day aims to highlight and address the needs and challenges girls face, while promoting girls' empowerment and the fulfillment of their human rights.
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International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction
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 »
International Day of Rural Women
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
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.
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
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 »
World Tsunami Awareness Day
This International Day was designated as a call to action for all countries and members of the international community to raise tsunami awareness and share innovative approaches to risk reduction... Continue Reading »
World Diabetes Day
This World Day was established to recognize the urgent need to develop policies to treat, and provide care for people with diabetics as well as prevent or delay the development... Continue Reading »
World Toilet Day
This World Day is meant to recognize the ways in which toilets and proper sanitation and waste disposal saves lives in communities by preventing the spread of disease through human... Continue Reading »
Africa Industrialization Day
This day is meant to recognize the ways in which industrialization will help African Countries to grow, diversify their economies, and work to eradicate poverty.
World Children’s Day
World Children’s Day was first established in 1954 as Universal Children's Day and is celebrated on this day each year to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving... Continue Reading »
