In 2024, World Leprosy Day is Sunday 28 January. World Leprosy Day always takes place on the last Sunday of January.

We celebrate World Leprosy Day to raise awareness of a disease that many people think does not exist anymore.

Each year there are 200,000 people diagnosed with leprosy and there are millions who are living with the damaging consequences of delayed leprosy treatment.

World Leprosy Day is an opportunity to celebrate the lives of those affected, raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of the disease, and tackle the stigma that too often surrounds leprosy. It is also an opportunity to raise money so that we can be the generation that ends leprosy transmission.

Here’s three things you can do to support World Leprosy Day

1. Be a voice for justice online: Use our key messages, leprosy facts, and videos to raise awareness of World Leprosy Day and spread messages of hope. Be United for Dignity with us!
2. Donate today: We believe we can end leprosy transmission by 2035, but only if we have the right resources. You can give today to help us defeat leprosy.
3. Have hands of love, not hate: If you live in a community where leprosy is present, where you see persons affected by leprosy, or where you hear people talk about leprosy, you can decide to demonstrate love and kindness, rather than the fear and stigma that so often follows persons affected by leprosy.

For more information, visit :https://www.leprosymission.org/leprosy-champions/world-leprosy-day/

World Health Day is celebrated annually and each year draws attention to a specific health topic of concern to people all over the world.

The date of 7 April marks the anniversary of the founding of WHO in 1948.

For More information ,visit :https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-health-day

World Braille Day, celebrated since 2019, is observed to raise awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and partially sighted people.

Braille is a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number, and even musical, mathematical and scientific symbols. Braille (named after its inventor in 19th century France, Louis Braille) is used by blind and partially sighted people to read the same books and periodicals as those printed in a visual font.

Braille is essential in the context of education, freedom of expression and opinion, as well as social inclusion

Get involved this January by:

• Volunteering with the organisation
• Raising awareness on social media.
• Making a donation

For more information ,visit :https://www.un.org/en/observances/braille-day

Each year, on 1 December, the world commemorates World AIDS Day. People around the world unite to show support for people living with HIV and to remember those who have died from AIDS-related illnesses.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an infection that attacks the body’s immune system, specifically the white blood cells called CD4 cells. HIV destroys these CD4 cells, weakening a person’s immunity against opportunistic infections, such as tuberculosis and fungal infections, severe bacterial infections and some cancers.

• An estimated 39.0 million [33.1–45.7 million] people were living with HIV at the end of 2022.
• 1.5 million [1.2–2.1 million] children (0–14 years old).

Get involved with World Aids Day by:

• Volunteering with the organisations.
• Raising awareness on social media.
• Organising a fundraiser.
• Making a donation.

For more information ,visit :https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-aids-day

The Sustainable Development Agenda is centred on people & planet, underpinned by human rights and supported by a global partnership determined to lift people out of poverty, hunger and disease. It will, thus, be built on a foundation of global cooperation and solidarity.

International Human Solidarity Day is:

• A day to celebrate our unity in diversity;
• A day to remind governments to respect their commitments to international agreements;
• A day to raise public awareness of the importance of solidarity;
• A day to encourage debate on the ways to promote solidarity for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals including poverty eradication;
• A day of action to encourage new initiatives for poverty eradication.

Get involved by:

• Volunteering with the organisation.
• Raising awareness on social media.

For more information, visit :https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-solidarity-day

10 December 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of one of the world’s most groundbreaking global pledges: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This landmark document enshrines the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being – regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Get involved this December by:

• Volunteering with the organisation
• Raising awareness on social media
• Stand up for human rights. We all have a role to play.

For more information, visit: https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day

A disability is a condition or function judged to be significantly impaired relative to the usual standard of an individual of their group. The term is often used to refer to individual functioning, including physical impairment, sensory impairment, cognitive impairment, intellectual impairment, mental illness, and various types of chronic disease.

• Over 1 billion people in the world have some form of disability.
• More than 100 million disabled persons are children.
• Children with disabilities are almost four times more likely to experience violence than non-disabled children.
• 50% of disabled persons cannot afford health care.
• 80% live in developing countries.
• An estimated 46% of older people aged 60 years and over are people with disabilities.
• One in every five women is likely to experience disability in her life
  

Get involved by:

• Volunteering with the organisation
• Raising awareness on social media
• Organising a fundraiser
• Making a donation

For more information, visit :https://www.un.org/en/observances/day-of-persons-with-disabilities