Calendar 2009
DAYS OF ACTION
1 December
World AIDS Day
Stop AIDS. Keep the promise
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3 December
International Day of Disabled Persons
Making the MDGs inclusive:
Empowerment of persons with disabilities
and their communities around the world
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10 December
Human Rights Day
All human beings are born free
and equal in dignity and rights
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18 December
International Migrants Day
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19 December
United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
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20 December
International Human Solidarity Day
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SPECIAL OBSERVATIONS
2009
International Year of Human Rights Learning
(beginning 10 December 2008)
2008-2017
Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty
2005-2015
International Decade for Action
Water for Life
2005-2014
United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
2005-2014
Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People
2003-2012
United Nations Literacy Decade
Education for All
2001-2010
International Decade for a Culture of Peace
and Non-violence for the Children of the World