JANUARY 

• 27 January - International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust 
  

FEBRUARY 

• 4 February - World Cancer Day (WHO)
  

• 20 February - World Day of Social Justice

• 21 February International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)
  

MARCH

• 08 March - International Women's Day

• 21 March - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 

• Week beginning 21 March - Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism & Racial Discrimination www.un.org/rights

• 22 March - World Day for Water

• 23 March - World Meteorological Day

• 25 March - International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  

APRIL

• 02 April - World Autism Awareness Day

• 04 April - International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action

• 07 April - World Health Day 

• 23 April - World Book and Copyright Day

MAY

• 03 May - World Press Freedom Day

• 08 and 09 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 and Information Society Day

• 21 May World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development 

• 22 May - International Day for Biological Diversity

• Week Beginning 25 May Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories - www.un.org/Depts/dpi/decolonization

• 29 May - International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers 

• 31 May - World No-Tobacco Day

JUNE

• 04 June International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

• 05 June World Environment Day 

• 17 June World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 

• 20 June World Refugee Day

• 23 June United Nations Public Service Day

• 26 June International Day Against Drug Abuse - http://www.undcp.org/

• 26 June International Day in Support of Victims of Torture - www.un.org/rights

JULY

• 1st Saturday in July International Day of Cooperatives - www.un.org/esa/socdev & http://www.ilo.org/

• 11 July World Population Day - http://www.unfpa.org/

AUGUST

• 9 August International Day of the World's Indigenous People - http://www.unhchr.ch/http://www.unhchr.ch/http://www.unhchr.ch/ 

• 12 August International Youth Day - http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unyin/index.html & www.unesco.org/youth 

• 23 August International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition - www.unhchr.ch & www.unesco.org

SEPTEMBER

• 8 September International Literacy Day - portal.unesco.org/education/en/html

• 15 September International Day for Democracy

• 16 September International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer - http://www.unep.org/

• 21 September International Day of Peace - www.un.org/peace
   Last Week of September World Maritime Day - http://www.imo.org/

OCTOBER

• 1st October International Day of Older Persons - www.un.org/esa/socdev/ageing

• 1st Monday in October World Habitat Day - http://www.unchs.org/

• 4 - 10 October World Space Week

• 5 October World Teachers' Day - http://www.unesco.org/

• 9 October World Post Day 

• 10 October World Mental Health Day - http://www.who.int/

• 2nd Wednesday of October International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction - http://www.reliefweb.int/

• 15 October International Day for Rural Women

• 16 October World Food Day - http://www.fao.org/ & http://www.wfp.org/

• 17 October International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - http://www.un.org/  

• 24 October World Development Information Day - http://www.undp.org/

• 24 October United Nations Day - http://www.un.org/

• 24-30 October Disarmament Week - www.un.org/Depts/dda

NOVEMBER

• 6 November International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict

• 14 November International Diabetes Federation/WHO World Diabetes Day - http://www.who.int/

• 16 November International Day for Tolerance - www.unesco.org/tolerance
   November - 3rd Sunday 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 Elimination of Violence against Women

• 29 November International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

DECEMBER

• 01 December World Aids Day

• 02 December International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

• 03 December International Day of Disabled Persons

• 05 December International Volunteer Day for Economic

• 07 December International Civil Aviation Day

• 09 December International Anti-Corruption Day

• 10 December Human Rights Day

• 11 December International Mountain Day

• 18 December International Migrants Day

• 19 December United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation

• 20 December International Human Solidarity Day