Days of Peace Calendar

January 30 through April 4
A Season For Nonviolence

January
Third Monday  --  Martin Luther King's birthday observed

February
20  --  Nonviolent Resistance Day

March
1  --  Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific Day 
8  --  International Women's Day 
14  --  Albert Einstein Day 
20  --  The Real Earth Day (Spring Equinox)
21  --  International Day To End Racial Discrimination
Third Week  --  Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Racial Discrimination 
22  --  World Day for Water 
23  --  World Meteorological Day 

April
7  --  World Health Day
22  --  Earth Day
26  --  250 Day CountUP to One Day In Peace
30  --  Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Ha Shoah)

May
1  --  May Day
1  --  International Law Day
3  --  World Press Freedom Day 
8  --  World Red Cross Day 
15  --  International Conscientious Objectors' Day 
15  --  International Day of Families 
17  --  World Telecommunication Day 
21  --  UNESCO World Day for Cultural Development 
24  --  International Women's Day for Disarmament 
Last Monday  --  Prayer For Peace Memorial Day
31  --  World No-Tobacco Day

June
1  --  International Children's Day 
4  --  International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression 
5  --  World Environment Day 
15  --  200 Day CountUP to One Day In Peace
17  --  World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 
26  --  United Nations Charter Day 
26  --  International Day Against Drug Abuse

July
1  --  World Nuclear Free Zones Day 
First Saturday  --  International Day of Cooperatives 
11  --  World Population Day 

August
6  --  Hiroshima Day 
9  --  Nagasaki Day
9  --  International Day for the World's Indigenous People

September
8  --  International Literacy Day 
16  --  International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer 
Third Tuesday  --  International Day of Peace/ Hear The Children 
Last Week  --  World Maritime Day
23  --  100 Day CountUP to One Day In Peace

October
1  --  International Day for the Elderly 
2  --  Mahatma Gandhi Day 
3  --  International Teachers' Day 
First Monday  --  World Habitat Day 
Second Wednesday  --  International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction 
7  --  World Citizen Day 
9  --  World Post Day 
12  --  World Hunger Day 
16  --  World Food Day 
17  --  International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 
Last Week  --  Disarmament Week 
Fourth Saturday  --  Make A Difference Day
24  --  United Nations Day 
24  --  World Development Information Day 
30  --  Refugee Day 
31  --  UNICEF Day 

November
9  --  International Day Against Facism and Anti-Semitism 
Second Week  --  International Week of Science and Peace 
17  --  International Students' Day 
20  --  African Industrialization Day 
20  --  Universal Children's Day 
24-25  --  International Days of Protest Against Violence in Children's Lives

December
1  --  World AIDS Day 
1  --  Prisoners for Peace Day 
3  --  International Day of Disabled Persons 
5  --  International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development 
10  --  International Human Rights Day
29  --  International Day for Biological Diversity

January 1, 2000
One Day in Peace ...