This year, the World Day of Migrants and Refugees will be celebrated on 25 September. Catholics worldwide are called upon to remember those displaced by conflict and persecution. ADDITIONAL INFO The last Sunday of September of every year is the Vatican’s World Day of Migrants and Refugees. The World Day […]
World Day Against Traficking in Persons – 30 July 2022
THEME 2022: “Use and abuse of technology” This year’s theme focuses on the role of technology as a tool that can both enable and impede human trafficking. With the global expansion in the use of technology – intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift of our everyday life to […]
International Women’s Day – 8 March 2022
Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow Advancing gender equality in the context of the climate crisis and disaster risk reduction is one of the greatest global challenges of the 21st century. Women are increasingly being recognized as more vulnerable to climate change impacts than men, as they constitute the […]
Journée Mondiale contre l’esclavage des enfants – 16 avril
Parallèlement à la journée de lutte pour l’abolition de l’esclavage (2 décembre) ou la commémoration de l’abolition de l’esclavage en france métropolitaine (le 10 mai), on « célèbre » aussi une Journée de lutte contre l’esclavage des enfants. Cette journée a été instituée en 1995 après la mort d’un jeune pakistanais de […]
World Day for War Orphans – 6 January
Civilians bear the brunt of the suffering in war. Of the big number of war victims, the most often neglected are children. Orphans throughout the world face many challenges: Malnutrition, starvation, disease, and decreased social attention. As the most vulnerable population on planet Earth, they have no one to protect […]
World Population Day – 11 July
Every year the world continues to get more and more crowded. While we’ve a tendency to pack ourselves into massive cities, and there are presently still long open stretches of countryside, every year that gets whittled away at more and more. The power and food needs of the world continue […]
Journée Mondiale de l’enfant Africain – 16 juin
Le 16 juin, les coalitions africaines de l’action mondiale contre la pauvreté organisent des actions simultanées pour la Journée de l’Enfant Africain. Cette Journée de l’Enfant Africain est un événement annuel qui commémore le massacre des enfants de Soweto de 1976 par le régime de l’apartheid. Les coalitions de l’action […]