World Days

Armed Forces Day is a chance to show our support for the men and women who have and do protect us and our interests at home and abroad, veterans, those currently serving and their families including the ...

Commonwealth Day is celebrated every year on the second Monday of March. However many events take place the weekend before. Every year there is a different theme.  For the last few years the theme h...

Every year on 4th June is the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression. The UN and the world acknowledges the pain and suffering by children throughout the world who are victims of ph...

Racial discrimination has been in a media quite a lot in the past year. The UN General Assembly called upon the international community take measures to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination when ...

1 in 3 women have experienced some sort of violence against them.  That is a staggering figure. And there is more. Personally I am against violence full stop. Against men, women, children, anim...

December 10 is Human Rights Day, a United Nations (UN) campaign that calls for people to know and push for their rights no matter where they are in the world. 

13th June has been decreed as International Albinism Awareness Day by The United Nations in an effort to stop the brutality, especially in many African countries, against people with this genetic co...

Today is International Anti-Corruption Day and if you believe half of what you read in the media corruption is rife everywhere even though the UN invited all countries to sign the United Nations Conventi...

June 30 has been proclaimed by the United Nations as International Asteroid Day because it is the anniversary of the day a large explosion occurred in the sky over the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Sibe...

Held every year on 7th December International Civil Aviation Day is meant to raise awareness of the importance of civil aviation and the role the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) plays in...

Since nuclear weapons testing began on 16 July 1945, nearly 2,000 have taken place. Hindsight and history have shown us the terrifying and tragic effects of nuclear weapons testing on both the environmen...

“Nuclear weapons present an unacceptable danger to humanity. The only real way to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons is to eliminate nuclear weapons."  UN Secretary-General António Guterre...

International Day of the Ozone Layer 2020 commemorates the date of the signing of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer on the 16th September 1987.  We all know what the O...

Yes “black lives matter” but so does every life especially those still living in slavery today especially today which is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolitio...

Today the emphasis is to raise awareness of the atrocities of modern slavery and it is not to be confused the other UN day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. Modern slavery is...

The International Day of Biological Diversity, held on 22nd May each year, sets out to encourage the global community to re-examine our relationship with the natural world. Our planet is so diverse and w...

The United Nations' (UN) International Day of Cooperatives is observed on the first Saturday of July each year. The day's goals, amongst others, are to strengthen and extend partnerships between the inte...

Families - both traditional and non-traditional - are the foundation of society. Some of the most formative years of our lives are spent growing up with our families, so they should be celebrated! And to...

21st March was designated by the UK as the International Day of Forest in 2000. The theme for this year is Forest Restoration: a path to recovery and well-being”. Forests cover about one third of th...

In 2011, the UN proclaimed the 30th July as the International Day of Friendship. So what does it hope to achieve? The UN wanted for the day to involve young people, as future leaders, in community a...