Human Rights & Equality
Sunday
January 26
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Australia Day / Invasion Day / Survival Day / Day of Mourning
Monday
January 27
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Holocaust Memorial Day
Saturday
February 1
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Commemoration of the Abolition of Slavery (Mauritius)
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Black History Month begins
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
World Hijab Day
Tuesday
February 4
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Human Fraternity
Wednesday
February 5
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Kashmir Solidarity Day (Pakistan, New York)
Thursday
February 6
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
Tuesday
February 11
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Wednesday
February 12
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers
Thursday
February 20
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
World Day of Social Justice
Friday
February 21
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Mother Language Day
Friday
February 28
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International STAND UP to Bullying Day
Saturday
March 1
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day (Marshall Islands)
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Zero Discrimination Day
Saturday
March 8
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Womenâs Day
Monday
March 10
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Women Judges
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Harriet Tubman Day (USA)
Saturday
March 15
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day to Combat Islamophobia
Thursday
March 20
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
National Close the Gap Day (Australia)
Friday
March 21
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Week of Solidarity with the People Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination begins
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Human Rights Day (South Africa)
Saturday
March 22
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
DĂa de la AboliciĂłn de la Esclavitud (Emancipation Day) (Puerto Rico)
Monday
March 24
Tuesday
March 25
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members
Monday
March 31
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Transgender Day of Visibility
Friday
April 4
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action
Saturday
April 5
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Conscience
Monday
April 7
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Tutsi Genocide Memorial Day (Rwanda)
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
Tuesday
April 22
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Stephen Lawrence Day
Thursday
April 24
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Yom Hashoah V’Hagevurah (Holocaust Memorial Day)
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia, Artsakh)
Sunday
April 27
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Freedom Day (South Africa)
Thursday
May 1
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Worker’s Day
Saturday
May 3
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
World Press Freedom Day
Sunday
May 4
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Family Equality Day
Friday
May 16
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Living Together in Peace
Saturday
May 17
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
Thursday
May 22
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Harvey Milk Day
Saturday
May 24
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness Day
Sunday
May 25
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self Governing Territories
Tuesday
May 27
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
National Reconciliation Week begins (Australia)
Wednesday
June 4
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
Thursday
June 12
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
World Day Against Child Labour
Friday
June 13
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Albinism Awareness Day
Sunday
June 15
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Refugee Week begins (Australia)
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
Wednesday
June 18
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day for Countering Hate Speech
Thursday
June 19
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Juneteenth aka Freedom Day (US)
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
Friday
June 20
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
World Refugee Day
Monday
June 23
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Widows’ Day
Tuesday
June 24
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Women in Diplomacy
Thursday
June 26
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Tuesday
July 1
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Dutch Emancipation Day
Friday
July 18
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Nelson Mandela Day
Wednesday
July 30
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
World Day against Trafficking of Persons
Friday
August 1
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Emancipation Day
Saturday
August 9
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
Tuesday
August 19
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
World Humanitarian Day
Thursday
August 21
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism
Friday
August 22
Saturday
August 23
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
Friday
August 29
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day against Nuclear Tests
Saturday
August 30
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Dissapearances
Sunday
August 31
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day for People of African Descent
Friday
September 5
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Charity
Tuesday
September 9
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day to Protect Education from Attack
Saturday
September 13
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
Thursday
September 18
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Equal Pay Day
Sunday
September 21
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Peace
Tuesday
September 23
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Sign Languages
Friday
September 26
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Sunday
September 28
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day for Universal Access to Information
Wednesday
October 1
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
LGBT History Month begins
Thursday
October 2
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Non Violence
Thursday
October 9
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Saint Barthélemy Abolition Day
Friday
October 10
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
World Inclusion Day
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
World Homeless Day
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
World Day Against the Death Penalty
Saturday
October 11
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Peopleâs Uprising against Fascism Day
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of the Girl Child
Friday
October 17
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day for Eradication of Poverty
Friday
October 24
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Disarmament Week begins
Sunday
October 26
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Intersex Awareness Day
Sunday
November 2
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day to End Imputiny for Crimes against Journalists
Saturday
November 8
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Intersex Day of Solidarity
Sunday
November 9
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
World Legal Services Day
Thursday
November 13
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
World Kindness Day
Friday
November 14
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day against Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Property
Sunday
November 16
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day for Tolerance
Tuesday
November 18
Thursday
November 20
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
World Children’s Day
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Friday
November 21
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International STAND UP to Bullying Day
Tuesday
November 25
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Saturday
November 29
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Tuesday
December 2
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Tuesday
December 9
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Anti-Corruption Day
Wednesday
December 10
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Human Rights Day
Thursday
December 18
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Migrants Day
Friday
December 19
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
Sudanese Revolution
Saturday
December 20
12:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Human Solidarity Day
