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<\/th>January<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
11<\/td>Human Trafficking Awareness Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
18-25<\/td>Week of Prayer for Christian Unity<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
24<\/td>International Day of Education<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
27<\/td>International Holocaust Remembrance Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/th>February<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
1-7<\/td>World Interfaith Harmony Week<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
20<\/td>World Day of Social Justice<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/th>March<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
<\/td><\/a>World Day of Prayer<\/a> (first Friday in March)<\/td><\/tr>
8<\/td><\/a>International Women\u2019s Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
21<\/td>United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racism<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
22<\/td>World Water Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
25<\/td>United Nations International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/th>April<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
7<\/td>World Health Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
15<\/td>Global Day of Action on Military Spending<\/a> (on or near Tax Day in U.S.)<\/td><\/tr>
22<\/td>Earth Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
24<\/td>Armenian Martyrs’ Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Yom HaShoah<\/a> (Holocaust Remembrance Day, changes based on the Jewish calendar)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/th>May<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
<\/td>Immigrant Rights Sunday (first Sunday in May)<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>World Fair Trade Day<\/a> (first Saturday in May)<\/td><\/tr>
15<\/td>Nakba Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
15<\/td>International Day of Families<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
21<\/td>World Day for Cultural Diversity<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
28<\/td>World Hunger Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/th>June<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
5<\/td>World Environment Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
8<\/td>World Oceans Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
12<\/td>World Day Against Child Labor<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
19<\/td>Juneteenth<\/td><\/tr>
20<\/td>World Refugee Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
26<\/td>International Day in Support of Victims of Torture<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/th>July<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
27<\/td>Korea Armistice Day (see Korea Peace Treaty Campaign<\/a>)<\/td><\/tr>
30<\/td>International Day of Friendship<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
30<\/td>World Day Against Trafficking in Persons<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/th>August<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
6<\/td>Hiroshima Day of Remembrance<\/td><\/tr>
9<\/td>International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Sunday of Prayer for the Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula (Sunday closest to August 15, see Korea Peace Treaty Campaign<\/a>)<\/td><\/tr>
19<\/td>World Humanitarian Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
22<\/td>International Day for Victims of Violence Based on Religious Belief<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
31<\/td>International Day for People of African Descent<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/th>September<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
8<\/td>International Literacy Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
21<\/td>International Day of Peace<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel (third week of September)<\/td><\/tr>
26<\/td>International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/th>October<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
<\/td>World Communion Sunday<\/a> (always first Sunday in October)<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>International Day of Non-Violence<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
10<\/td>World Mental Health Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
11<\/td>International Day of the Girl<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Indigenous People\u2019s Day (\u201cColumbus Day\u201d in the U.S.)<\/td><\/tr>
16<\/td>World Food Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Breaking the Silence\/Congo Week<\/a> (always third week in October)<\/td><\/tr>
24<\/td>United Nations Day<\/a> (anniversary of the UN Charter)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/th>November<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
19<\/td>World Toilet Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
20<\/td>World Children’s Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
25<\/td>International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
25-10<\/td>16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
29<\/td>International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/th>December<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
1<\/td>World AIDS Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>International Day for the Abolition of Slavery<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
10<\/td>Human Rights Day<\/a> (anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)<\/td><\/tr>
18<\/td>International Migrants Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
20<\/td>International Human Solidarity Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
25<\/td>Christmas Day<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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