Human
Rights Conferences,
UN Decades and UN days/weeks
(Issues of special interest for the OHCHR are bolded
(Issues of potential interest for the OHCHR are bolded and in
italics)
Conferences
World
Conference on Human Rights (1993)
World
Conference on Racism and Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance (2001)
International Decades and Years
1990s International
Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
1990s Third Disarmament Decade
1990-1999 United Nations Decade of International Law
1990-2000 International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism
1991-2000 Fourth United Nations Development Decade
1991-2000 Second Transport and Communications Decade in Africa
1991-2000 United Nations Decade against Drug Abuse
1993-2002 Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa
1993-2002 Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons
1993-2003 Third Decade to Combat Racism
and Racial Discrimination
1994-2004 International Decade of
the World's Indigenous People
1995-2004 United Nations Decade
for Human Rights Education
1997-2006 United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty
1999 International Year of Older Persons
1999 Centennial of the First International Peace Conference
2000 International Year for the Culture of Peace
2000 International Year of Thanksgiving
2001 International Year of Volunteers
2001 United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations
2001 International Year of Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
2001-2010 International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence
for the Children of the World
2002 International Year of Mountains
2002 International Year of Ecotourism
2004 International
Year to commemorate the Struggle against slavery and its abolition
2005 International Year of Microcredit
Annual Days and Weeks
8 March - United
Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace (human rights of women web page)
21 March - International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination
Beginning 21 March - Week of Solidarity with the Peoples struggling
against Racism and Racial Discrimination
22 March - World Day for Water
23 March - World Meteorological Day
7 April - World Health Day
23 April - World Book and Copyright Day
3 May - World Press Freedom Day
15 May - International Day of Families
17 May - World Telecommunication Day
Beginning 25 May - Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of All Colonial
Territories Fighting for Freedom, Independence and Human Rights
31 May - World No-Tobacco Day
4 June - International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
5 June - World Environment Day
17 June - World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
26 June - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
26 June - International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
First Saturday of July - International Day of Cooperatives
11 July - World Population Day
9 August - International Day of the World's Indigenous People (indigenous
peoples web page)
September (opening day of General Assembly) - International Day
of Peace
8 September - International Literacy Day
16 September - International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
last week in September - World Maritime Day
1 October - International Day of Older Persons
First Monday of October - World Habitat Day
9 October -World Post Day
Second Wednesday of October -International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
16 October - World Food Day
17 October - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
24 October - United Nations Day
24 October - World Development Information Day
24-30 October - Disarmament Week
16 November - International Day for Tolerance
20 November - Africa Industrialization Day
20 November - Universal Children's Day
21 November - World Television Day
25 November: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against
Women
29 November - International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian
People
1 December - World AIDS Day
2 December - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
3 December - International Day of Disabled Persons
5 December - International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
7 December - International Civil Aviation Day
10 December - Human Rights Day
18 December - International Migrants Day
29 December - International
Day for Biological Diversity
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