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 Small Arms Destruction Day – 9 July
This date marks the International Small Arms Destruction Day, a date initiated by the United Nations in 2001 to remind the threat that the excessive and destabilizing accumulation of and illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons pose to peace and security, and highlights the importance of destroying surplus […]
International Day of Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action – 4 April
« On this International Day, let us work together to advance the goal of a world free of the threat of mines and explosive remnants of war. » Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. 2016 Theme: “Mine Action is Humanitarian Action” On 8 December 2005, the General Assembly declared that 4 April of each year […]