International Observances
The following peace-related days are officially recognised by the United Nations. Click here for the complete list of all UN observance days, weeks, years and decades.
Note that many other days are not observed by the UN, such as Hiroshima & Nagasaki Commemoration Day (6 August). Click here for Wikipedia’s international observances page which includes non-UN observances.
In addition the Peace Education Network has produced the Peace Calendar.
| 27 January | International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust |
| 6 February | International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation |
| 20 February | World Day of Social Justice |
| 1 March | Zero Discrimination Day |
| 8 March | International Women’s Day |
| 20 March | International Day of Happiness |
| 21 March | International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination |
| 24 March | International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims |
| 25 March | International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade |
| 4 April | International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action |
| 22 April | International Mother Earth Day |
| 29 April | Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare |
| 3 May | World Press Freedom Day |
| 8-9 May | Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During the Second World War |
| 15 May | International Day of Families |
| 21 May | World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development |
| 29 May | International Day of UN Peacekeepers |
| 1 June | Global Day of Parents |
| 4 June | International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression |
| 12 June | World Day Against Child Labour |
| 15 June | World Elder Abuse Awareness Day |
| 19 June | International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict |
| 20 June | World Refugee Day |
| 21 June | International Day of Yoga |
| 23 June | International Widows’ Day |
| 26 June | United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture |
| 30 July | International Day of Friendship |
| 30 July | World Day against Trafficking in Persons |
| 9 August | International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples |
| 12 August | International Youth Day |
| 19 August | World Humanitarian Day |
| 23 August | International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition |
| 29 August | International Day against Nuclear Tests |
| 30 August | International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances |
| 15 September | International Day of Democracy |
| 21 September | International Day of Peace |
| 26 September | International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons |
| 2 October | International Day of Non-Violence |
| 5 October | World Teachers’ Day |
| 10 October | World Mental Health Day |
| 11 October | International Day of the Girl Child |
| 13 October | International Day for Disaster Reduction |
| 15 October | International Day of Rural Women |
| 16 October | World Food Day |
| 17 October | International Day for the Eradication of Poverty |
| 24 October | United Nations Day |
| 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 |
| 16 November | International Day for Tolerance |
| 25 November | International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women |
| 29 November | International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People |
| 2 December | International Day for the Abolition of Slavery |
| 9 December | International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime |
| 9 December | International Anti-Corruption Day |
| 10 December | Human Rights Day |
| 18 December | International Migrants Day |
| 20 December | International Human Solidarity Day |
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