International Women’s Day – 8 March 2025

Equal rights. Equal opportunities. Equal power. On International Women’s Day (8 March), that is the bold call for action for all women and girls worldwide.   As we mark the 30th year of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the world is deeply unequal.  International Women’s Day is a chance […]

Journée des Nations Unies – 24 octobre 2024

Un symbole d’espoir pour l’unité mondiale La Journée des Nations Unies est célébrée chaque année à la date du 24 octobre, jour anniversaire de l’entrée en vigueur de la Charte des Nations Unies en 1945.  Avec la ratification de ce document fondateur par la majorité de ses signataires, dont les cinq membres […]

International Day of Rural Women – 15 October 2024

Rural Women Sustaining Nature for Our Collective Future Achieving gender equality and empowering women is not only the right thing to do but is a critical ingredient in the fight against extreme poverty, hunger and climate change. Women are responsible for half of the world’s food production while working as environmental and biodiversity […]

Journée internationale des filles – 11 octobre

L’ONU reconnaît officiellement le 11 octobre comme étant la journée internationale des filles. Because I’m a girl C’est depuis 2007 que PLAN lutte contre les discriminations faites aux filles à travers le monde, qu’il s’agisse d’éducation, de travail, de violences ou de traditions familiales. Et il aura tout de même […]

Journée internationale de la paix – 21 septembre 2024

Thème 2024 : Promouvoir une culture de paix Cette année marque le 25e anniversaire de l’adoption par l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies de la Déclaration et du Programme d’action sur une culture de la paix. Dans cette déclaration, l’organisme le plus inclusif des Nations Unies a reconnu que la paix « n’est pas […]

International Day of Peace – 21 September 2024

2024 Theme: Cultivating a Culture of Peace This year marks the 25th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace. In that declaration, the United Nations’ most inclusive body recognized that peace “not only is the absence of conflict, […]

International Literacy Day – 8 September 2024

Despite steady progress made across the world, literacy challenges persist with at least 763 million young people and adults lacking basic literacy skills in 2020. The recent COVID-19 crisis and other crisis, such as climate change and conflicts, have been exacerbating the challenges. This year, ILD will be celebrated under […]

World Population Day – 11 July 2024

World Population Trends It took hundreds of thousands of years for the world population to grow to 1 billion – then in just another 200 years or so, it grew sevenfold. In 2011, the global population reached the 7 billion mark, it stands at almost 7.9 billion in 2021, and […]

World Day of the African Child – 16 June 2024

The Day of the African Child is commemorated every year on 16 June since 1991. On this day we remember black high school students who participated in the Soweto Uprising in South Africa in June 1976, when they began a series of demonstrations and protests against education injustice and inequality […]