International Days:

FAQ - Index

February
21 - International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)

March
08 - International Women's Day
21 - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Poster)
21 - World Poetry Day (UNESCO)
22 - World Day for Water
23 - World Meteorological Day (WMO)
24 - World Tuberculosis Day (WHO)

April
07 - World Health Day (WHO)
22 - Earth Day
23 - World Book and Copyright Day (UNESCO)

May
01 - International Labour Day
03 - Sun Day (UNEP)
03 - World Press Freedom Day (UNESCO)
15 - International Day of Families
17 - World Telecommunication Day (ITU)
21 - World Day for Cultural Development (UNESCO)
21 - World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
22 - International Day for Biological Diversity
25 - Africa Day
29 - International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
31 - World No-Tobacco Day (WHO)

June
04 - International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
05 - World Environment Day (UNEP)
17 - World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
20 - World Refugee Day
26 - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
26 - United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

July
11 - World Population Day (UNFPA)
1st Saturday - International Day of Cooperatives

August
09 - International Day of Indigenous People
12 - International Youth Day
23 - Int’l Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition (UNESCO)

September
08 - International Literacy Day (UNESCO)
16 - International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
Last Week - World Maritime Day (IMO)
21 - International Day of Peace

October
01 - International Day of Older Persons
05 - International Teachers' Day (UNESCO)
09 - World Post Day (UPU)
10 - World Day against Death Penalty
11 - Disaster Reduction Day
16 - World Food Day (FAO)
17 - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
24 - United Nations Day
24 - World Development Information Day

1st Monday - World Habitat Day
2nd Wednesday - International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction

November
06 - Int’l Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in war& Armed Conflict
10 - World Science Day for Peace and Development (UNESCO)
16 - International Day for Tolerance (UNESCO)
20 - Africa Industrialization Day
20 - Universal Children's Day (UNICEF)
21 - Philosophy Day (UNESCO)
21 - World Television Day
25 - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
29 - International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

December
01 - World AIDS Day (WHO)
02 - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
03 - International Day of Disabled Persons
05 - International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
07 - International Civil Aviation Day (ICAO)
10 - Human Rights Day
11 - International Mountain Day
18 - International Migrant's Day

International Covenants/ Conventions/ Treaties Ratified/ Acceded/ Signed by India

- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
- The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) – Ratified on 10th April, 1979
- The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) – Acceded on 10th April, 1979.
- The International Convention on Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination – Ratified on 3rd December, 1968.
- The Convention on Rights of the Child.

- The Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women – Signed on 30th July, 1981.
- Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment – Signed on 8th October, 1997.
- International Covenant on Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid – Acceded to on 22nd September, 1977.
- The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment on the Crime on Genocide – Ratified on 27th August, 1959.
- Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and - Crimes against Humanity – Signed on 12th January, 1971.

- Slavery Convention ratified 18th June, 1927.
- Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25th September, 1926
- Supplementary Convention on the Evolution of Slavery, Slave Trade and - Institutions and Practice similar to Slavery – Ratified on 23rd June, 1960.
- Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of others – Ratified on 9th January, 1953.
- Convention on the Nationality of the Married Women - Signed on 15th May, 1957.
- Convention on the Political Rights of the Women – Ratified on 1st November, 1961.

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United Nations

Mr. BAN KI-MOON
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High Commissioner for Human Rights

Ms. Louise Arbour
United Nations
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UNESCO

Mr Koïchiro Matsuura
Director-General
UNESCO
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