National Days

For too long, we have been exploiting and destroying our planet’s ecosystems. Every three seconds, the world loses enough forest to cover a football pitch and over the last century we have& destroyed half of our& wetlands. As much as 50 per cent of our [...]

The International Workers’ Day is celebrated on the 1st of May, to commemorate the workers movement and the workforce all around the world, as part of a claiming movement for different causes related to work labour. More than a hundred [...]

An explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 spread a radioactive cloud over large parts of the Soviet Union, now the territories of Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Nearly 8.4 million people in the three countries were [...]

On the 24th of April, the International day of multilateralism and diplomacy for peace is celebrated. Preserving the values of multilateralism and international cooperation, which underpin the UN Charter and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is fundamental to promote and support the [...]

23 April is a symbolic date for world literature. It is on this date in 1616 that Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. It is also the date of birth or death of other prominent authors, [...]

The General Assembly designated 22 April as International Mother Earth Day through a resolution adopted in 2009. The UN Conference on the Human Environment 1972 in Stockholm marked the beginning of a global awareness of the interdependence between people, other living species [...]

Every April 17th, young people and Youth Information Services across Europe celebrate the European Youth Information Day. This day, which was declared in 1983 by the European Agency for Youth Information and Advice (Eryica) and the Spanish Youth Institute (Injuve), [...]

In 1997 the International Day against Child Slavery was created to honor the memory of Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who after escaping from forced labor dedicated himself to the fight for children's rights but was killed on April 16, [...]

The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) is celebrated on the 6th of April. The adoption of this Day signifies the increasing recognition by the UN of the positive influence that sport can have on the advancement [...]

Conscious of the need for the creation of conditions of stability and well-being and peaceful and friendly relations based on respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion, the General [...]

Earth Hour is celebrated each year on the last Saturday of March, and it consists of an electric voluntary downturn, in which people and enterprises are asked to turn off lights and electronic devices which are not essential during an hour, [...]

Every year, on the 25th of March, the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, gives the opportunity to honor and remember those who suffered and died at the hands of this brutal [...]