Events

The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. This day is referred to in India as Gandhi Jayanti. [...]

World Teachers' Day, held annually on October 5th since 1994, commemorates teachers’ organizations worldwide. Its aim is to mobilize support for teachers and to ensure [...]

International Day of the Girl Child is an international observance day declared by the United Nations; it is also called the Day of the Girl [...]

By resolution 44/236 (22 December 1989), the General Assembly designated the second Wednesday of October International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction. The International Day was [...]

World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16 October in honor of the date of the founding of the Food and [...]

The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is celebrated every year on October 17 throughout the world. It was officially recognised by the United [...]

The Anti-slavery Day Act 2010 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to introduce a national day to raise awareness of the [...]

United Nations Day is devoted to making known to peoples of the world the aims and achievements of the United Nations Organization. United Nations Day [...]

On 27 December 2013, the UN General Assembly (by resolutionA/RES/68/239) decided to designate 31 October, beginning in 2014, as World Cities Day. The General Assembly [...]

Over the past decade, more than 700 journalists have been killed for bringing news and information to the public. Worryingly, only one in ten cases [...]