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Day |
Observance |
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27 January |
International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust |
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20 February |
World Day of Social Justice |
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21 March |
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination |
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24 March |
International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims |
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25 March |
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade |
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25 March |
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members |
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7 April |
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide |
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26 April |
World Intellectual Property Day[WIPO] |
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4 June |
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression |
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12 June |
World Day Against Child Labour[ILO] |
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13 June |
International Albinism Day |
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15 June |
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day |
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20 June |
World Refugee Day |
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23 June |
International Widows’ Day |
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26 June |
United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture |
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18 July |
Nelson Mandela International Day |
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30 July |
World Day against Trafficking in Persons |
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9 August |
International Day of the World's Indigenous People |
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12 August |
International Youth Day |
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23 August |
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition[UNESCO] |
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15 September |
International Day of Democracy |
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1 October |
International Day of Older Persons |
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2 November |
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists |
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16 November |
International Day for Tolerance |
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2 December |
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery |
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3 December |
International Day of Persons with Disabilities |
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5 December |
International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development |
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10 December |
Human Rights Day |
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18 December |
International Migrants Day |
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Week |
Observance |
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21–27 March |
Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination |
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Year |
Observance |
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2011 |
International Year for People of African Descent |
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2011 |
International Year of Youth (12 August 2010 — 11 August 2011) |
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2009 |
International Year of Human Rights Learning |
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2004 |
International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition |
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2001 |
International Year of Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance |
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1999 |
International Year of Older Persons |
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1995 |
United Nations Year for Tolerance |
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1993 |
International Year for the World's Indigenous People |
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1987 |
International Year of Shelter for The Homeless |
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1982 |
International Year of Mobilization for Sanctions Against South Africa |
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1981 |
International Year for Disabled Persons |
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1978/79 |
International Anti-Apartheid Year |
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1971 |
International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Prejudice |
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1968 |
International Year for Human Rights |
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1959/60 |
World Refugee Year |
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Decade |
Observance |
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2015–2024 |
International Decade for People of African Descent |
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2005–2014 |
Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People |
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1995–2004 |
Decade for Human Rights Education |
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1994–2004 |
Decade of the World's Indigenous People |
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1993–2003 |
Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination |
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1983–1993 |
Second Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination |
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1983–1992 |
United Nations Decade for Disabled Persons |
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1973–1983 |
Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination |
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Anniversary |
Observance |
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2011 |
25th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on the Right to Development |
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2010 |
50th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples |
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2009 |
20th Anniversary of the Adoption by the General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child |
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2008 |
60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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1998 |
50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |