INTERNATIONAL DAYS
These are the international days currently observed by the United Nations. New international days are established regularly. The resolution establishing each international day is listed in parenthesis.
MAY
3 May
World Press Freedom Day
8-9 May
Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During the Second World War
9-10 May
World Migratory Bird Day [UNEP]
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
23 May
International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
29 May
International Day of UN Peacekeepers
31 May
World No-Tobacco Day [WHO] (Resolution 42.19 of the 42nd session of WHO)
JUNE
1 June
Global Day of Parents
1 June
"Vesak", the Day of the Full Moon
4 June
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
5 June
World Environment Day [UNEP]
6 June
Russian Language Day at the UN (in Russian)
8 June
World Oceans Day
12 June
World Day Against Child Labour
13 June
International Albinism Awareness Day
14 June
World Blood Donor Day [WHO]
15 June
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
17 June
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
20 June
World Refugee Day
21 June
International Day of Yoga
23 June
United Nations Public Service Day
23 June
International Widows' Day
25 June
Day of the Seafarer
26 June
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
26 June
United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
JULY
4 July (first Saturday in July)
International Day of Cooperatives
11 July
World Population Day (UNDP)
15 July
World Youth Skills Day
18 July
Nelson Mandela International Day
28 July
World Hepatitis Day [WHO]
30 July
International Day of Friendship
30 July
World Day against Trafficking in Persons
AUGUST
9 August
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
12 August
International Youth Day
19 August
World Humanitarian Day
23 August
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition [UNESCO]
29 August
International Day against Nuclear Tests
30 August
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
