Days, Years, Decades by UN

by UN
Jan 1 – Global Family Day
Jan 6 – World Day for War Orphans
Jan 15 – Martin Luther King Day
Jan 27 – International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Feb 12 – Darwin Day
Feb 21 – International Mother Language Day

March 8 – International Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace
March 21 – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 22 – World Day for Water
March 23 – World Metereological Day
March 24 – World Tuberculosis Day
March 27 – World Theatre Day, World Wear Odd Socks Day

April 4 – International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
April 7 – World Health Day
April 22 – Earth Day
April 23 – World Book and Copyright Day
April 25 – Africa Malaria Day
April 26 – World Intellectual Property Day
April 29 – World Dance Day

May 1 – May Day
May 3 – World Press Freedom Day
May 4 – International FireFighter’s Day
May 12 – International Nurses Day
May 15 – International Day of Families
May 17 – World Telecommunications Day
May 21 – World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
May 22 – International Day for Biological Diversity
May 29 – International Day for United Nations Peacekeepers
May 31 – World No Tobacco Day
1st tuesday of May – World Asthma Day
2nd saturday of May – World Fair Trade Day

June 1 – World Children’s Day
June 4 – International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
June 5 – World Environment Day
June 8 – World Brain Tumour Day, World Ocean Day
June 12 – World Day against Child Labour
June 14 – World Blood Donation Day
June 17 – World Day to combat Desertification and Drought
June 20 – World Refugees Day
June 21 – World Music Day
June 23 – United Nations Public Services Day
June 26 – International Day against Drugs Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, International Day in support of Victims of Torture

Ist saturday of July – International Day of Cooperatives
July 11 – World Population Day
July 29 – International Day for Social Cultural Diversity and the fight against positive discrimination

August 9 – International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
August 12 – International Youth Day
August 23 – International Day for the remembrance of the Slave trade and its abolition

September 8 – International Literacy Day
September 16 – International Day for the preservance of the Ozone Layer
September 19 – International Talk Like a Pirate Day
September 21 – International Day of Peace, World Alzheimer’s Day
September 22 – World Car Free Day
September 25 – International Grab Hand Day
September 26 – European Day of Languages
September 27 – World Tourism Day
4th week of September – World Peace Week
During Last week of September – World maritime Day

First Monday of October – World Habitat Day
Oct 1 – International Day of Older Persons, World Vegetarian Day
Oct 4 – World Animal Day
Oct 5 – World Teacher’s Day
Second wed of oct – World Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
Oct 6 – World Hospice and Palliviate Day
Oct 9 – World Post Day
Oct 10 – World Mental Health Day
Oct 15 -Foundation of the Black Panthers Day
Oct 16 – World Food Day
Oct 17 – International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Oct 24 – United Nations Day, World Development Information Day

Nov 1 – World Vegan Day
Nov 6 – International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
Nov 9 – International Day for the mobilisation for the Fight against Terrorism and the terrorist movements in the world , World Inventor’s Day
Nov 16 – International Day for Tolerance
Nov 17 – International Students Day
Nov 19 – World Toilet Day
Nov 20 – Africa Industrialization Day, Universal Children’s Day
Nov 21 – World Television Day
Nov 25 – International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Nov 29 – International Day of Solidarity with the Palastine People

Dec 1 – World Aids Day
Dec 2 – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Dec 3 – International Day of Disabled Persons
Dec 5 – International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
Dev 7 – International Civil Aviations Day
Dec 9 – International Day against Corruption
Dec 10 – Human Rights Day
Dec 18 – International Migrants Day
Dec 20 – International Human Solidarity Day

2000 – International Year of Thanksgiving, International Year for the Culture of Peace
2001 – International Year for Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, International Year of Volunteers, United Nations Year for Dialogue among Civilizations
2002 – International Year of Ecotourism , International Year of Mountains, United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage
2003 – International Year of Freshwater, European Disability Year
2004 – International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its abolition , International Year of Rice
2005 – International Year for Sports and Physical Education, International Year of Microcredit, World Year of Physics
2006 – International Year for Deserts and Desertification
2007 – International Year of the Dolphin
2007, 2008,2009 – International Year of Planet Earth
2008 – International Year of Potato
2009 – Internatioal Year of Natural Fibres, International Year of Astronomy
2010 – Nothing as yet
2011 – International Year of Forests

1976-85 – United Nations Decade for Women
1994 -2004 – First International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
1997-2006 – First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty
2000-2010 – Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism
2001-2010 – International Decade for the Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World
2003-2012 – United Nations Literacy Decade
200. – 201. – United Nations Decade on Education for Sustenable Development
2005-2014 – Second International Decade for World’s Indigenous People
2005 -2015 – Water for Life Decade