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SEPTEMBER
Opening Day of UN General Assembly – International Day of Peace

OCTOBER
5 World Teacher’s Day
16 World Food Day
17 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
24 United Nations Day

NOVEMBER
6 International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
11 Remembrance Day
16 International Day of Tolerance
20 Universal Children’s Day
25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
25 to December 10 Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence

DECEMBER
1 World AIDS Day
2 International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
3 International Day of Disabled Persons
6 National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (Canada)
10 Human Rights Day

JANUARY
1 Happy New Year!

MARCH
8 International Women’s Day / United Nations Day of Women’s Rights and International Peace
21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
22 World Water Day

APRIL
4 Refugee Rights Day (Canada)
7 World Health Day
22 Earth Day

MAY
1 International Labour Day/May Day
3 World Press Freedom Day
28 Anniversary of Amnesty International’s founding in 1961

JUNE
20 World Refugee Day
21 National Aboriginal Day (Canada)
26 International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

JULY
11 World Population Day

AUGUST
9 International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
12 International Youth Day
23 International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition