ICJW Calendar

2010

International Year of Communications
International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
International Year of Biodiversity

January
January 1 - Global Family Day 
January 1 - World Day of Peace 
January 17 - World Religion Day 
January 27 - International Holocaust Remembrance Day

February
February 4 - World Cancer Day
February 6 - International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation
February 7 - ICJW Administrative Meeting in Israel
February 20 - World Day of Social Justice
February 25 – Fast of Esther & International Agunah Day
February 28 - Jewish Festival of Purim

March
March 4 - World Day of the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation 
March 8 - United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace, 
March 8 - International Women's Day 
March 21 - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 21-27 - Solidarity with Peoples Struggling against Racism & Racial Discrimination
March 25 - International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery   
March 30 – Jewish Festival of Pesach (Passover)

April
April 7 - World Health Day (WHO)
April 12 – Israel's Remembrance Day for Victims of the Holocaust
April 19 - Remembrance Day for Israel's Fallen Soldiers
April 20 – Israel's Independence Day
April 22 - Earth Day

May
May 1-12 54th Session of the Committee on the Status of Women (Beijing +15)
May 1 - May Day - Labour Day
May 6–12 - ICJW CONVENTION - CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA 
May 10 - International Mothers Day
May 12 - Jerusalem Day
May 15 - International Day of Families
May 19-20 - Jewish Festival of Shavuot (Pentecost)
May 21 - World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, 
May 31 - World No Tobacco Day

June
June 1 - International Children's Day
June 4 - International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
June 5 - World Environment Day
June 12 - World Day Against Child Labor
June 20 - World Refugee Day
June 26 - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
June 26 - International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

July
July 20 – Jewish Fast of the 9th of  Av

August
August 12 - International Youth Day
August 19 - World Humanitarian Day

September
September 8 - International Literacy Day
September 9-10 – Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)
September 18 – Yom Kippur (Jewish Day of Atonement)
September 21 - International Day of Peace
September 21 - World Alzheimer's Day
September 22 - World Car Free Day
September 23-30 – Jewish Festival of Succot (Tabernacles)

October
October 1 - International Day of Older Persons
October 2 - International Day of Non-Violence, 
October 15 - International Day of Rural Women
October 17 - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
October 20 – Day of Remembrance for Yitzchak Rabin
October 24 - United Nations Day

November
November 9 - World Freedom Day
November 16 - International Day for Tolerance
November 20 - Universal Children's Day
November 25 - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women,

December
December 1 - World AIDS Day
December 2-9 – Jewish Festival of Chanukah
December 2 - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
December 3 - International Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 5 - International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development, 
December 10 - Human Rights Day