   |
United Nations in the world
|
List of Dates
UNITED NATIONS OBSERVANCIES
Conferences, Events and Special Sessions
World Conference on Disaster Reduction (18-22 January 2005)
World Summit on the Information Society (16-18 November 2005)
Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (2005)
International Decades and Years
1994-2004 -- International Decade of the World's Indigenous People
1995-2004 -- United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education
1997-2006 -- United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty
2001-2010 -- Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa
2001-2010 -- Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism
2003-2012 -- United Nations Literacy Decade: Education for All
2005-2014 -- United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
2005-2015 -- International Decade for Action, “Water for Life” (from 22 March 2005)
2004 -- International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and Its Abolition
2004 -- International Year of Rice
2005 -- International Year of Microcredit
2005 -- International Year for Sport and Physical Education
2006 -- International Year of Deserts and Desertification
Annual Days and Weeks
27 January -- International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
21 February -- International Mother Language Day
8 March -- United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace (International Women’s Day)
21 March -- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
22 March -- World Day for Water
23 March -- World Meteorological Day
4 April -- International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
7 April 2004 -- International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
23 April -- World Book and Copyright Day
23-29 April, 2007 -- United Nations Global Road Safety Week
3 May -- World Press Freedom Day
8-9 May -- Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War
15 May -- International Day of Families
17 May -- World Telecommunication Day
21 May -- World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
22 May -- International Day for Biological Diversity
25 May -- Beginning of the Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories
29 May -- International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
31 May -- World No-Tobacco Day
4 June -- International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
5 June -- World Environment Day
17 June -- World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
23 June -- United Nations Public Service Day
26 June -- International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
26 June -- International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
5 July -- International Day of Cooperatives (first Saturday of July)
11 July -- World Population Day
9 August -- International Day of the World's Indigenous People
12 August -- International Youth Day
23 August -- International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
8 September -- International Literacy Day
16 September -- International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
21 September -- International Day of Peace
September -- World Maritime Day (during last week of September)
1 October -- International Day of Older Persons
4-10 October -- World Space Week
5 October -- World Teachers' Day
4 October -- World Habitat Day (first Monday of October)
10 October -- World Mental Health Day
13 October -- International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction (second Wednesday of October)
17 October -- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
24 October -- United Nations Day
24 October -- World Development Information Day
24-30 October -- Disarmament Week
16 November -- International Day for Tolerance
19 November, Third Sunday of November -- World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
20 November -- Africa Industrialization Day
20 November -- Universal Children's Day
21 November -- World Television Day
25 November -- International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
29 November -- International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
2 December -- International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
3 December -- International Day of Disabled Persons
5 December -- International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
7 December -- International Civil Aviation Day
9 December -- International Anti-Corruption Day
10 December -- Human Rights Day
11 December -- International Mountain Day
18 December -- International Migrants Day
19 December -- UN Day for South-South Cooperation
20 December -- International Human Solidarity Day
© 2006 UN Russia Moscow | E-mail: info@unrussia.ru |
 |