Advocacy Calendar

Advocacy Calendar

January
11Human Trafficking Awareness Day
18-25Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
24International Day of Education
27International Holocaust Remembrance Day
February
1-7World Interfaith Harmony Week
20World Day of Social Justice
March
World Day of Prayer (first Friday in March)
8International Women’s Day
21United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racism
22World Water Day
25United Nations International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
April
7World Health Day
15Global Day of Action on Military Spending (on or near Tax Day in U.S.)
22Earth Day
24Armenian Martyrs’ Day
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day, changes based on the Jewish calendar)
May
Immigrant Rights Sunday (first Sunday in May)
World Fair Trade Day (first Saturday in May)
15Nakba Day
15International Day of Families
21World Day for Cultural Diversity
28World Hunger Day
June
5World Environment Day
8World Oceans Day
12World Day Against Child Labor
19Juneteenth
20World Refugee Day
26International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
July
27Korea Armistice Day (see Korea Peace Treaty Campaign)
30International Day of Friendship
30World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
August
6Hiroshima Day of Remembrance
9International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Sunday of Prayer for the Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula (Sunday closest to August 15, see Korea Peace Treaty Campaign)
19World Humanitarian Day
22International Day for Victims of Violence Based on Religious Belief
31International Day for People of African Descent
September
8International Literacy Day
21International Day of Peace
World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel (third week of September)
26International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
October
World Communion Sunday (always first Sunday in October)
2International Day of Non-Violence
10World Mental Health Day
11International Day of the Girl
Indigenous People’s Day (“Columbus Day” in the U.S.)
16World Food Day
Breaking the Silence/Congo Week (always third week in October)
24United Nations Day (anniversary of the UN Charter)
November
19World Toilet Day
20World Children’s Day
25International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
25-1016 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
29International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
December
1World AIDS Day
2International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
10Human Rights Day (anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
18International Migrants Day
20International Human Solidarity Day
25Christmas Day