Here are key dates we should all be aware of as we design our activities for the months ahead. Most of them are great social media opportunities where each of us can easily add our voice to global campaigns.
“2015 is a chance to change history” – Ban Ki-Moon
The Year 2015 is marked by three major global summits that will shape the global agenda until 2030:
- The July Addis Finance for Development Conference
- The September UN Summit on the Post-2015 Agenda
- The December COP21 Climate Change Conference in Paris
It is also the International Year of Soils, “Beijing+20“, and Africa’s Year of Women’s Empowerment.
September 2015
15 Opening of the 70th UN General Assembly
25-27 Summit on the Adoption of the Post-2015 Agenda
28-30 Clinton Global Initiative
28-October 6 UN General Assembly – General Debate
October 2015
11 International Day of the Girl Child
12-16 Committee on Food Security (Rome)
15 International Day for Rural Women
16 World Food Day; US site – Big event with the Pope in Milan
17-20 Habitat III – Quito, Ecuador
24 UN Day
November 2015
25 Start of 16 Days of Activism to halt Gender Violence, through Dec 10
25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
December 2015
1 World AIDS Day: UN Site, UK Site
10 Human Rights Day; Pope Francis calls for global “wave of prayer” for end of hunger at noon local time.
January 2016
20 Martin Luther King Birthday (observed)
February 2016
11-21 Commission on Social Development
March 2016
14-24 Commission on the Status of Women Theme: Women’s empowerment and its link to sustainable development
April 2016
22 Earth Day
28-May 2 Living Below the Line
May 2016
16-19 Women Deliver, Copenhagen
June 2015
5 World Environment Day [UNEP]
July 2016
2 Start of World Breast Feeding Week
18 Nelson Mandela International Day
August 2016
9 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples