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UNITED NATIONS, November 28 (IPS) – The 193-member Normal Meeting, the UN’s highest policy-making physique, routinely designates “Worldwide Days” and “World Days” on a variety of topics and occasions – from the chic to the ridiculous: described as “a sudden shift from one thing grand and awe-inspiring to one thing foolish and unimportant”.
The commemorations vary from the Worldwide Ladies’s Day and the Worldwide Day to Fight Islamophobia to the Worldwide Moon Day and World Bicycle Day (not forgetting World Tuna Day, World Bee Day, Worldwide Day of Potato, World Horse Day, World Pulses Day and Worldwide Day of the Arabian Leopard).
In line with the UN, the world physique observes 218 international days yearly (and counting).
One of many first designations got here from the UN Normal Meeting’s declaration in 1947 that 24 October needs to be celebrated as United Nations Day, the anniversary of the adoption of the UN Charter that based the Group.
Since then, UN Member States have proposed greater than 200 designations, presenting draft resolutions to the Normal Meeting so your entire membership, representing 193 nations, can vote.
However a brand new decision geared toward revitalizing the work of the Normal Meeting “notes with concern the numerous enhance within the variety of proposals to proclaim worldwide days, weeks, months, years or many years”.
The decision decides, on a trial foundation, to placed on maintain consideration of recent proposals for worldwide days, weeks, months, years and many years through the eighty-first and eighty-second classes.
The decision additionally requests the President of the Normal Meeting, efficient from the eighty-first session in 2026, to group all proclamation requests for worldwide commemoration right into a single decision per agenda merchandise, the place every proposed commemoration accommodates its personal operative paragraph centered on its institution.
The upcoming Worldwide Days in March 2026 embody:
1 March – World Seagrass Day
1 March – United Nations Zero Discrimination Day
3 March – International Day for Ear and Hearing Loss
3 March – World Wildlife Day
5 March – International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness
8 March – International Women’s Day
10 March – International Day of Women Judges
15 March – International Day to combat Islamophobia
20 March – International Day of Happiness
20 March – French Language Day
21 March – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
21 March – World Poetry Day
21 March – International Nowruz Day
21 March – World Down Syndrome Day
21 March – International Day of Forests
21 March – World Day of Glaciers
22 March – World Water Day
23 March – World Meteorological Day
24 March – World Tuberculosis Day
24 March – International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights
25 March – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery
25 March – International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members
30 March – International Day of Zero Waste
The record for December consists of:
01 Dec – World AIDS Day
02 Dec – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (A/RES/317(IV)
03 Dec – International Day of Persons with Disabilities (A/RES/47/3)
04 Dec – International Day of Banks (A/RES/74/245)
04 Dec – International Day Against Unilateral Coercive Measures (A/RES/79/293)
05 Dec – International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development (A/RES/40/212)
05 Dec – World Soil Day (A/RES/68/232)
07 Dec – International Civil Aviation Day (A/RES/51/33)
09 Dec – International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime (A/RES/69/323)
09 Dec – International Anti-Corruption Day (A/RES/58/4)
10 Dec – Human Rights Day (A/RES/423 (V)
11 Dec – International Mountain Day (A/RES/57/245)
12 Dec – International Day of Neutrality (A/RES/71/275)
12 Dec – International Universal Health Coverage Day (A/RES/72/138)
18 Dec – International Migrants Day (A/RES/55/93)
18 Dec – Arabic Language Day
20 Dec – International Human Solidarity Day (A/RES/60/209)
21 Dec – World Meditation Day (A/RES/79/137)
21 Dec – World Basketball Day (A/RES/77/324)
27 Dec – International Day of Epidemic Preparedness (A/RES/75/27)
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