Government of New Brunswick

Special Days to Promote Human Rights

 

January

  • 3rd Monday - Martin Luther King Jr. Day (USA) (more information: 1 & 2)
     
 

February

 

March

 

April

  • April 17 - Equality Day, anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  • April 29, 2003 - Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) (New Brunswick, Ontario,
                               USA) (being the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan, each year it falls
                               on a different date of the Gregorian calendar)                       
 

May

 

June

  • June 21 - National Aboriginal Day (Canada)
  • Late June - Gay Pride
       
 

August

  • August 9 - International Day of Indigenous People
  • August 12 - International Youth Day
  • August 15 - National Acadian Day (Acadia)
  • August 23 - International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
 

September

  • September 15 - New Brunswick Human Rights Day
  • 3rd Tuesday of September - International Day of Peace
       
 

October

  • October - International Day of Older Persons
  • October 17 - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
  • October 18 - Persons' Day (Canada)
  • October 24 - United Nations Day
       
 

November

  • November 16 - International Day for Tolerance
  • November 20 - National Child Day (also Universal Children's Day)
 

December

  • December 2 - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
  • December 3 - International Day of Disabled Persons
  • December 6 - National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (Canada)
  • December 10 - International Human Rights Day (anniversary of the adoption of the Universal
                          Declaration of Human Rights, written in large part by John Humphrey, who came
                          from New Brunswick.)