Politics

3rd May - World Press Freedom Day

World Press Freedom Day 2013; Credit: © Shutterstock 3rd May was proclaimed World Press Freedom Day at the UN General Assembly in 1993 following a recommendation adopted at the twenty-sixth...

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International Women's Day - 8th March 2013

International Women's Day 2013; Credit: © Shutterstock It was during the period before The Great War when the booming population growth of the industrialised world saw a rise in radical...

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World Day of the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation - 4th March

Sexual Exploitation; Credit: © Shutterstock Every year since 2009, 4th March has been designated as World Day of the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation. Although there are exceptions, sexual exploitation overwhelmingly...

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International Mother Language Day - 21st February

Mother Language Day; Credit: © Shutterstock On 21st February each year the world's linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism is celebrated by International Mother Language Day. This was announced by...

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The World Day of Social Justice - 20th February

Social Justice; Credit: © Shutterstock When the General Assembly of the United Nations met for its 67thsession in November 2007, one of its acts was to proclaim 20th February as...

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World Radio Day - 13th February 2013

World Radio Day 2013; Credit: © Shutterstock In January 2012 Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO sent a letter to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon informing him that the 36th...

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day ~ 27th January

Auschwitz Camp Image; Credit: © Shutterstock On 27th January 1945 advancing Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Upper Silesia. Auschwitz was the largest of the German...

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Martin Luther King Day

Martin Luther King, Jr.; Credit: Trikosko, Marion S. Nobody who was born after, say, 1950 will remember Martin Luther King while he was alive, but few people born before that...

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