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World Bicycle Day draws attention to the benefits of using the bicycle - a simple, affordable, clean and environmentally fit sustainable means of transportation.

Each year World Environment Day puts a global spotlight on the pressing environmental challenges of our times. It has become the largest global platform for environmental outreach, with millions of people from across the world engaging to protect the planet.

World Refugee Day honours refugees around the globe and celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.

Operating all around the world, in many different sectors of economy, cooperatives have proven themselves more resilient to crises and more positive for people and the planet. International Co-ops Day is celebrated on the first Saturday of July by co-operative enterprises demonstrating an alternative way to run economies.

This day invites everyone to leave their cars at home and enjoy the streets free of traffic and pollution.

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on 20 November that honours the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. This…

Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world.

World AIDS Day is a global movement to unite people in the fight against HIV and AIDS.

Human Rights Day is the day in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.