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America Recycles Day®
Keep America Beautiful identifies America Recycles Day on November 15 as its national recycling-awareness program
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Causes Advocacy observances
Cause-based campaigns and advocacy observances.
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These observances are used to organize attention around a social, humanitarian, environmental or rights-related cause.
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These pages include reviewed meaning, history, activities, facts and FAQs in addition to the underlying observance record.
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Bullying No Way Week
Bullying No Way’s current national campaign is Bullying No Way Week, held in the third week of August; the official 2026 edition runs 17–21 August.
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Children’s Day
Vanuatu’s Prime Minister’s Office 2026 public-holiday calendar lists Children’s Day on 24 July; the government holidays page likewise identifies 24 July as a national holiday.
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Choose Women Wednesday
UN Web TV documents the 2014 WOW: Women on Wednesday launch with Women’s Entrepreneurship Day founder Wendy Diamond; Endicott College states WED would host the first annual Choose Women Wed…
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Day of the Imprisoned Writer
PEN International states that each year on 15 November it marks the Day of the Imprisoned Writer; PEN traces the campaign to its Writers in Prison Committee in 1981.
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Day With(out) Art (formerly Day Without Art)
Visual AIDS says it organized the first Day Without Art on 1 December 1989; in 1998 the project became Day With(out) Art, and it continues annual 1 December programming.
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America Recycles Day®
Keep America Beautiful identifies America Recycles Day on November 15 as its national recycling-awareness program
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Bullying No Way Week
Bullying No Way’s current national campaign is Bullying No Way Week, held in the third week of August; the official 2026 edition runs 17–21 August.
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Children’s Day
Vanuatu’s Prime Minister’s Office 2026 public-holiday calendar lists Children’s Day on 24 July; the government holidays page likewise identifies 24 July as a national holiday.
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Choose Women Wednesday
UN Web TV documents the 2014 WOW: Women on Wednesday launch with Women’s Entrepreneurship Day founder Wendy Diamond; Endicott College states WED would host the first annual Choose Women Wed…
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Day of the Imprisoned Writer
PEN International states that each year on 15 November it marks the Day of the Imprisoned Writer; PEN traces the campaign to its Writers in Prison Committee in 1981.
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Day With(out) Art (formerly Day Without Art)
Visual AIDS says it organized the first Day Without Art on 1 December 1989; in 1998 the project became Day With(out) Art, and it continues annual 1 December programming.
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Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural
Argentina’s current consolidated holiday decree lists 12 October as Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural and sets transfer rules for some national holidays.
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Fête de la Communauté française
Belgium’s federal information service identifies 27 September as the Fête de la Communauté française, while Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles materials continue to use the date in current calen…
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Indigenous Literacy Day
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation states that it created Indigenous Literacy Day in 2007, has hosted it annually since then and holds the national celebration on the first Wednesday in Sep…
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International Civility for the Girl Child Day
Louisa Akaiso is identified as the 2020 creator of the October 13 observance; Women Who Win Africa’s current first-party site continues to list International Civility for the Girl Child Day…
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International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT)
The IDAHOBIT campaign’s 2026 material identifies May 17 as the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia and describes global participation around the date.
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International Day Against Police Brutality
The Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (COBP) documents March 15 as the International Day Against Police Brutality since 1997, with independent historical corroboration.
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International Day for Street Children
Consortium for Street Children states that it launched International Day for Street Children and continues the annual 12 April observance focused on rights, dignity and participation.
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International Day of Peace
A/RES/36/67
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Journée internationale de la Francophonie
The OIF states that the Journée internationale de la Francophonie is celebrated every year around 20 March and documents the 20 March 2026 edition.
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National Indigenous Peoples Day (formerly National Aboriginal Day)
Canadian Heritage uses National Indigenous Peoples Day for 21 June; archived federal material documents the earlier National Aboriginal Day name, so the public page title is retained as a l…
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National Pride Prom Day
National Today published a contemporaneous June 2024 launch describing the first annual National Pride Prom Day on the fourth Saturday in June. EventGuide lists June 22, 2024 as the new obs…
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National Respect Day
Contemporaneous 2008 reporting identifies the first annual National RESPECT! Day on September 19, 2008 through the Family Violence Prevention Fund–Macy’s campaign; current histories record…
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National Women’s Day
South Africa’s government lists National Women’s Day on 9 August and applies the statutory next-Monday rule when a public holiday falls on a Sunday; government material also describes the a…
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Native American Day (California)
California’s Department of Education quotes Education Code section 37220.7 and identifies the fourth Friday in September as Native American Day, including 25 September 2026.
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Native American Heritage Day
Public Law 111-33 identifies the Friday immediately succeeding Thanksgiving Day of each year as the appropriate day for Native American Heritage Day, and current Senate recognition follows…
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Peace Corps Day
Peace Corps materials state that Peace Corps Day is held every year on March 1 and commemorate the March 1, 1961 executive order that established the agency.
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Prisoners for Peace Day
War Resisters’ International documents 1 December as Prisoners for Peace Day and traces the observance to 1957; WRI annual reporting independently records the 1 December campaign date.
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Race Relations Day (New Zealand)
New Zealand History records that Race Relations Day was first formally celebrated in New Zealand on 21 March 2003, aligning with the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discr…
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Women’s Equality Day
A current Presidential message dated 26 August 2025 recognizes Women’s Equality Day and ties the observance to the certification of the Nineteenth Amendment on 26 August 1920.
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World Children’s Day
UNICEF identifies World Children’s Day as its global day of action marking the Convention on the Rights of the Child on 20 November; United Nations background material links 20 November to…
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World Day Against Child Labour
ILO observance
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World Day of the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation
Haryana State Legal Services Authority documented March 4, 2024 awareness activities under this observance title, while National Today independently places it on March 4 annually.