INTERNATIONAL DAYS (kya kare yaad rakhna padega MCQ aa sakta hai )

INTERNATIONAL DAYS (kya kare yaad rakhna padega MCQ aa sakta hai )

INTERNATIONAL DAYS

Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU) facilitates celebration of UN/UNESCO days/Weeks/Decades in the country. Listed below are the days and weeks officially recognised by the United Nations

 21 February – International Mother Language Day(UNESCO)

 8 March – International Women’s Day

 21 March – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

 21 March – World Poetry Day (UNESCO)

 22 March – World Day for Water 2005

 23 March – World Meteorogical Day (WMO)

 24 March – World Tuberculosis Day (WHO)

 7 April – World Health Day (WHO)

 23 April – World Book and Copyright Day (UNESCO)

 3 May – World Press Freedom Day(UNESCO)

 15 May – International Day of Families

 17 May – World Telecommunication Day (IUT)

 21 May – World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

 22 May – International Day for Biological Diversity

 25 May – Africa Day

 Beginning 25 May – Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories

 31 May – World No-Tobacco Day (WHO)

 5 June – World Environment Day (UNEP)

 17 June – World Day to combat Desertification and Drought

 20 June – World Refugee Day

 23 June – United Nations Public Service Day

 26 June – International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

 26 June – United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of torture

 1^st Saturday July – International Day of Cooperatives

 11 July – World Population Day (UNFPA)

 9 August – International Day of Indigenous People

 12 August – International Youth Day

 23 August – International day for the Remembrance of the slave Trade and its Abolition (UNESCO)

 8 September – International Literacy Day(UNESCO)

 16 September – International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone layer

 21 September – International Day of Peace

 Last Week September – World Maritime Day (IMO)

 1 October – International Day of Older Persons

 2 October – International Non-Violence Day

 1^st Monday October – World Habitat Day

 4-10 October – World Space Week

 5 October – World Teacher’s Day (UNESCO)

 9 October – World Post Day (UPU)

 10 October – World Mental Health Day

 2^nd Wednesday October – International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction

 16 October – World Food Day (FAO)

 17 October – International Day for the Eradication Poverty

 24 October – United Nations Day

 24 October – World Development Information Day

 24-30 October – Disarmament Week

 6 November – International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in war and Armed Conflict

 10 November – World Science Day for Peace and Development (UNESCO)

 16 November – International Day for Tolerance (UNESCO)

 20 November – Africa Industrialization Day

 20 November – Universal Children’s Day (UNICEF)

 21 November – World Television Day

 21 November - - Philosophy Day at UNESCO (UNESCO)

 25 November – International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

 29 November – International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People

 1 December – World Aids Day (WHO)

 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 (ICAO)

 9 December – International Anti-Corruption Day

 10 December – Human Rights Day

 18 December – International Migrant’s Day

International Years proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly

 2002 – United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage

 2002 – International Year of Ecotourism

 2002 – International Year of Mountains

 2003 – International Year of Freshwater

 2004 – International Year to Commemorate the struggle against Slavery and its Abolition

 2004 – International Year of Rice

 2005 – International year of Micro credit

 2005 – International Year for Sport and Physical Education

 2005 – International Year of Physics

 2006 – International Year of Deserts & Desertification

 2008 - International Year of the Potato; and

International Year of Planet Earth; and

International Year of Sanitation; and

International Year of Languages;

 2009 - International Year of Reconciliation;

International Year of Natural Fibres; and

International Year of Astronomy

 2010 - International Year of Biodiversity; and

International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures

 2011 - International Year of Forests

International Decades proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly

 2005-2015 – International Decade for Action “Water for Life”

 2005-2014- United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

 2003-2012 – United Nations Literacy Decade

 2001- 2010 – International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World

 2001-2010 – Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism

 2001-2010 – Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa

 1997- 2006 – First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty

 1995- 2004 – United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education

 1994-2004 – International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People

 1993-2003 – Third Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination

 1993- 2002 – Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa

 1993- 2002 – Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons

Source--http://www.education.nic.in/unesconew/unesco-Internationaldays.asp