The UN’s “Worldwide Days” Vary from the Chic to the Ridiculous — International Points
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 response to the UN, the world physique observes 218 worldwide 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 Constitution 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 aimed toward revitalizing the work of the Normal Meeting “notes with concern the numerous improve within the variety of proposals to proclaim worldwide days, weeks, months, years or a long time”.
The decision decides, on a trial foundation, to placed on maintain consideration of recent proposals for worldwide days, weeks, months, years and a long time throughout 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 comprises its personal operative paragraph targeted 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 – Worldwide Day for Ear and Listening to Loss
3 March – World Wildlife Day
5 March – Worldwide Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Consciousness
8 March – Worldwide Ladies’s Day
10 March – Worldwide Day of Ladies Judges
15 March – Worldwide Day to fight Islamophobia
20 March – Worldwide Day of Happiness
20 March – French Language Day
21 March – Worldwide Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
21 March – World Poetry Day
21 March – Worldwide Nowruz Day
21 March – World Down Syndrome Day
21 March – Worldwide 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 – Worldwide Day for the Proper to the Fact regarding Gross Human Rights
25 March – Worldwide Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery
25 March – Worldwide Day of Solidarity with Detained and Lacking Workers Members
30 March – Worldwide Day of Zero Waste
The listing for December consists of:
01 Dec – World AIDS Day
02 Dec – Worldwide Day for the Abolition of Slavery (A/RES/317(IV)
03 Dec – Worldwide Day of Individuals with Disabilities (A/RES/47/3)
04 Dec – Worldwide Day of Banks (A/RES/74/245)
04 Dec – Worldwide Day In opposition to Unilateral Coercive Measures (A/RES/79/293)
05 Dec – Worldwide Volunteer Day for Financial and Social Improvement (A/RES/40/212)
05 Dec – World Soil Day (A/RES/68/232)
07 Dec – Worldwide Civil Aviation Day (A/RES/51/33)
09 Dec – Worldwide 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 – Worldwide Anti-Corruption Day (A/RES/58/4)
10 Dec – Human Rights Day (A/RES/423 (V)
11 Dec – Worldwide Mountain Day (A/RES/57/245)
12 Dec – Worldwide Day of Neutrality (A/RES/71/275)
12 Dec – Worldwide Common Well being Protection Day (A/RES/72/138)
18 Dec – Worldwide Migrants Day (A/RES/55/93)
18 Dec – Arabic Language Day
20 Dec – Worldwide 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 – Worldwide Day of Epidemic Preparedness (A/RES/75/27)
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