World’s Important Days - International Days - and Observance Days
World’s Concern and Interest
World’s Important Days are actually not holidays. But to the International community and United Nations,
World’s Important Days may be treated as favorite holidays for they have something to commemorate, promote
or mobilize. World’s Important Days or International Days are days to observe issue of world’s concern and
interest. These international days are really days used by the world community to commemorate, promote and
mobilize for certain action.
Worlds Important Days - Most of the worlds important days have been established by the United Nations (UN). Image
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United Nations
Many of the world’s important days have been established by the United Nations (UN). The United Nations has
a rich infrastructure throughout the world and it’s through such infrastructure that is able to coordinate events of
these international days. In most of these world’s important days, the UN has successfully put in motion
campaigns in international observance of the days and in return has always come up with recommendation for
future days.
Here below is a listing of world’s important days:
January - World's Important Days
Day Day's Name
January 1 Global Family Day
January 6 World Day - War Orphans
Day Day's Name
January
National Girl Child Day of India January 24
24
January
International Customs day
26
January International Holocaust Remembrance
27 Day
January
Data Protection Day
28
January
World Leprosy Eradication Day
30
World’s Important Days - International Days - and Observance Days for the month of January
February - World's Important Days
February 2 World Wetland Day
February 4 World Cancer Day
February 5 Kashmir Day
International Day against Female Genital
February 6
Mutilation
February 12 Darwin Day
February 12
World Day of the Sick
February 14 Valentine’s Day
February 20 World Day of Social Justice
February 21 International Mother Language Day
February
World Scout Day
22
February
World Peaces and Understanding Day
23
World’s Important Days - International Days - and Observance Days for the Month of February
March - World’s Important Days
March 4 World Day of the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation
March 8 International Womens' Day
March
World Kidney Day
13
March
World Rotaract Day
13
March
World Consumer Rights Day
15
March
International Day of the Francophonie
20
March
World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People
20
March
World Sleep Day
21
March
World Forestry Day
21
March
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
21
March
World Water Day
22
March
World Meteorological Day
23
March
World TB Day
24
March
International Day for Achievers
24
March International Day of Remembrance - Victims of Slavery and Transatlantic Slave
25 Trade
March
World Drama Day
27
World’s Important Days - International Days - and Observance Days for the Month of March
April - World’s Important Days
April 2 World Autism Awareness Day
April 4 International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine
Action
April 7 World Health Day
April 7 International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda
April
World Aviation & Cosmonautics Day
12
April
World Haemophilia Day
17
April
World Heritage Day
18
April
World Creativity and Innovation Day
21
April
Earth Day
22
April
World Book and Copyright Day
23
April
World Lab Animals Day
24
April
World Malaria Day
25
April
World Intellectual Property Day
26
April
International Worker’s Memorial Day
28
April
World Dance Day
29
World’s Important Days - International Days - and Observance Days for the Month of April
May - World’s Important Days
May 01 May day - Labour Day
May-03 Press Freedom Day
May-03 International Sun Day
May-03 World Asthma Day
May-04 Coal Miners Day
May-04 International Firefighters' Day
May 05 - First Sunday in
World laughter Day - First Sunday in May
May
May-05 World Athletics Day
May-08 World Red Cross Day and Red Crescent Day
Remembrance and Reconciliation for Lost Lives Second World
May-08
War
May-09 World Thalassaemia Day
May-10 World Mother Day
May-12 International Nurses Day
May-13 International Criminal Court Day
May-14 Bone and Joint Day
May-15 International Day of the Families
May-17 World Information Society Day
May-18 World Hyper Tension Day
May-18 World Museum Day
May-19 World Hepatitis Day
May-20 World Metrology Day
May-21 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
May-22 International Day for Biological Diversity
May-23 World Turtle Day
May-24 Commonwealth Day
May-28 Anti-Narcotics Day
May-28 Engineers Day
May-29 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
May-31 World Anti Tobacco Day
June 1 International Children’s Day
June 4 International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
June 5 World Environment Day
June 8 World Brain Tumors Day
June 8 World Ocean Day
June 12 World Day Against Child Labor
June 14 World Blood Donor Day
June 15 World Father’s Day
June 16 International Integration Day
June 17 World Combat Day to Desertification and Drought
June 18 International Picnic Day
June 20 World Refugee Day
June 21 World Music Day
June 23 International Olympic Day
June 23 United Nations Public Service Day
June 26 International Day against Drug abuse and Illicit Trafficking
June 26 International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
World’s Important Days - International Days - and Observance Days for the Month of June
July - World’s Important Days
July 1 International Joke Day
July 1 Doctor's Day
July 2 World Sports Journalists Day
1st Saturday of International Day of
July Cooperatives
July 6 World Zoonoses Day
July 11 World Population Day
July 28 World Nature Conservation Day
World’s Important Days - International Days - and Observance Days for the Month of July
August - World’s Important Days
August 1 World Breast-feeding Week
August 3 Friendship Day
August 6 Anti Nuclear Day
August 6 Hiroshima Day
August 9 Nagasaki Day
August 9 International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
August
International Youth Day
12
August
World Left Hander's Day
13
August
International Mourning Day
15
August
World Humanitarian Day
19
August
World Photography Day
19
August
World Mosquito Day
20
August International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its
23 Abolition
August
Namibia Day
26
World’s Important Days - International Days - and Observance Days for the Month of August
September - World’s Important Days
September 2 Coconut Day
September 8 World Literacy Day
September 10 World Anti-Suicide Day
September 11 World First Aid Day
September 15 International Day of Democracy
September 15 International Day of Engineers
September 16 World Ozone Day
September 19 International Talk Like a Pirate Day
September 21 World Peace Day
September 21 World Alzheimer's Day
September 22 World Car Free Day
World Rose Day - Welfare of Cancer
September 22
Patients
September 22 Car Free Day
September 24 World Heart Day
September 24 World Clean-up Day
September 25 International Grab Hand Day
September 26 Day of the Deaf
September 26 European Day of Languages
September 27 World Tourism Day
September 28 Right to Know Day
September 28 World Rabies Day
Last week of
World Maritime Day
September
World’s Important Days - International Days - and Observance Days for the month of September
October - World’s Important Days
October 1 World Vegetarian Day
October 1 International Day of the Elderly
October 1 World Hepatitis Day
October 2 World Animal Day
October 2 World Ostony Day
October 2 International Day of Non-Violence
October 3 World Habitat Day
October 4 World Animal Welfare Day
October 5 World and International Teacher’s Day
October 6 (or second Saturday of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
October)
October 8 World Humanitarian Action Day
October 9 World Postal Day
October 10 World Mental Health Day
October 12 World Sight Day
October 12 World Arthritis Day
International Day for Natural Disaster
October 13
Reduction
October 14 World Standards Day
October 15 Global Hand Washing Day
October 15 World White Cane Day-guiding the Blind
October 15 International Day of Rural Women
October 16 World Food Day
October 16 World Anaesthesiologists Day
October 17 World Trauma Day
October 20 World Osteoporosis Day
October 24 UN Day
October 24 World Development Information Day
October 24 World Polio Day
October 30 World Thrift Day
World’s Important Days - International Days - and Observance Days for the Monther of October
November - World’s Important Days
November 1 World Vegan Day
November 5 World Interact Day
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed
November 6
Conflict
November 8 World Radiographer Day
November 9 World Freedom Day
November 14 World Diabetes Day
November 16 International Day for Tolerence
November 17 International Students Day
November 19 World Toilet Day
November 19 International Men's Day
November 20 Universal Children’s Day
November 20 Africa Industrialization Day
November 21 World Fisheries Day
November 21 World Hello Day
November 21 World Television Day
November 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
November 25 International Meatless
November 29 International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
Third Sunday of
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
November
World’s Important Days - International Days - and Observance Days for the Month of november
December - World’s Important Days
December 1 World AIDS Day
December 2 World Computer Literacy Day
December 2 International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
December 3 International Day of People with Disability
December 3 World Conservation Day
International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social
December 5
Development
December 7 International Civil Aviation Day
December 9 The International Day Against Corruption
December
International Day of Broadcasting
10
December
Human Rights Day
10
December
International Mountain Day
11
December
World Energy Day
14
December
International Migrants Day
18
December
International Human Solidarity Day
20
December
International Biodiversity Day
29