Calendar of special international days
January
February
March
- International Women's Day (8 March)
- World Water Day (22 March)
- International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 March)
April
- World Health Day (7 April)
- Earth day (22 April)
- World Book and Copyright Day (23 April)
May
- World Press Freedom day (3 May)
- World no tabaco day (31 May)
June
- International Day of Innocent Children and Victims of Aggression (4 June)
- World environment day (5 June)
- International Day of Solidarity/ International Refugee Day (17 June)
- World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (17 June)
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International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking/ International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (26 June)
July
- World Population Day (11 July)
August
- International Day of the World’s Indigenous People (9 August)
- International Youth Day (12 August)
- Fourth anniversary of the attack on the UN in Baghdad (19 August)
- International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition (23 August)
September
- World Maritime Day (27 September)
- World Tourism Day (27 September)
- International Day of Peace (21 September)
- International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer (16 September)
- International Literacy Day (8 September)
October
- World Habitat Day (1 October)
- International Day of Older Persons (1 October)
- Internationalorld Day of Non-Violence (2 October)
- Anti-Leprosy Day (2 October)
- World Space Week (4-10 October)
- World Teachers’ Day (5 October)
- World Post Day (9 October)
- World Mental Health Day (10 October)
- International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction (10 October)
- International Mountain Day (11 October)
- World White Cane Day (15 October)
- World Food Day (16 October)
- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October)
- United Nations Day (24 October)
- World Development Information Day (24 October)
- Disarmament Week (24-30 October)
- World Thrift Day (30 October)
November
- World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic (16 November)
- World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse (19 November)
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women(25 November)
December
- World AIDS Day (1 December)
- Human Rights Day (10 December)















