Important Days and Themes (June-July 2018)

June 2018

DAY	THEME & SOME FACTS
World Bicycle Day : 3 June	It was the first official World Bicycle Day. celebrated to raise awareness about the benefits of using the bicycle for transport and leisure.
Financial Literacy Week Begins June 4 to June 8	The theme is “customer protection “. It focuses on creating awareness among customers of banks about financial products and services, good financial practices and going digital.
World Environment Day: 05th June	The theme is "Beat Plastic Pollution".
World Ocean Day: 8th June	Main focus - to prevent plastic pollution and encourage solutions for a healthy ocean
World Day Against Child Labour: 12th June	Main Focus on child labour and the action and efforts needed to eliminate it.
World Blood Donors Day: 14 June	theme - ‘Be there for someone else. Give blood. Share life’.
World Refugee Day: 20 June	The theme is ‘Now More Than Ever, We Need to Stand with Refugees’. Celebrated to celebrate the courage, strength and perseverance of millions of refugees.
4th International Yoga Day: 21 June	It was organised at Forest Research Institute in Dehradun, Uttarakhand and The theme is "Yoga for Peace".
World Music Day: 21 June	known as 'Fete de la Musique' after a music festival that began in France in 1982.
United Nations Public Service Day: 23 June	theme - “Transforming governance to realize the Sustainable Development Goals”.
International Widows' Day: 23 June	It is a global awareness day to give special recognition to the situation of widows of all ages and across regions and cultures.
International Day Against Drug Abuse And Illicit Trafficking: 26 June	theme -"Listen First - Listening to children and youth is the first step to help them grow healthy and safe."

July 2018

DAY	THEME & SOME FACTS
National Doctors’ Day – July 1	“Zero tolerance to violence against doctors and clinical establishment’.
Goods And Services Tax Day: 1 July	1st Anniversary of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) coming into force on 1st July 2017 also commemorated as ‘GST Day.
World Sports Journalists Day : July 2	The International Sports and Press Association (AIPS) was established in the year 1924
World UFO day : July 2	World UFO day is an awareness day for people to gaze at the heavens scanning forunidentified flying objects and was founded by the UFO hunter Haktan Akdogan.
America Independence Day : July 4	242nd America Independence Day
World Zoonosis Day : July 6	Zoonosis are infectious diseases (virus, bacteria and parasites) that can be spread from animals to humans, and vice versa. Zoonosis can spread from direct contact with animals or indirectly, vector-borne or food-borne.
Global forgiveness day : July 7	7th July was founded by CECA (Christian Embassy of Christ’s Ambassadors),
World Chocolate Day : July 7	Celebrated since 2009.
International Day Of Cooperatives: 7 July	‘Sustainable societies through cooperation’.
World Population Day: 11 July	'Family Planning is a Human Right'.
International Malala Day: 12 July	12 July, the day of Malala’s Birth was declared as Malala Day by UN General Secretary Ban-Ki-Moon on her 16th Birthday.
NABARD Foundation Day: 12 July	37th Foundation Day. Founded on: 12 July 1982
World Youth Skills Day - July 15	The United Nations General Assembly has decided to celebrate the first World Youth Skills Day (WYSD) on 15 July 2015.
World Day for International Justice- July 17	The aim of this day is to unite everyone who wants to support justice as well as promote victims rights.
Nelson Mandela International Day: 18 July	The Nelson Mandela Foundation is dedicating this year's Mandela Day to 'Action Against Poverty',
Kargil Vijay Diwas - July 26	India Celebrates 19th Anniversary
World Hepatitis Day- July 28	Test. Treat. Hepatitis
World Nature Conservation Day- July 28	“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
International Tiger Day - July 29	Established at the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in 2010 to raise awareness for this species.
World Day against Trafficking in Persons - July 30	Responding to the trafficking of children and young people
World Ranger Day - July 31	World Ranger Day is organised by the International Ranger Federation and was first held in 2007.