Calendar of Important Justice and Peace Dates

  • January 1st
    Emancipation Proclamation Signed, 1863
    World Day of Peace

    January 11th
    Human Trafficking Awareness Day

    January 15th
    Birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. born 1929

    January 18th - 25th
    Week of Prayer for Unity Among Christians

    January 27th
    International Holocaust Remembrance

    January 31st
    Birthday of Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. born 1915

  • February 8th
    Feast Day of St. Josephine Bakhita
    International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking

    February 11th
    World Day of the Sick

    February 20th
    World Day of Social Justice

  • March 2nd
    Birthday of Pope Leo XII

    March 8th
    International Women’s Day

    March 21st
    International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

    March 22nd
    World Water Day

    March 24th
    Feast of Saint Oscar Romero

    March 25th
    International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

  • April 7th
    World Health Day

    April 11th
    Pacem in Terris, 1963

    April 22nd
    Earth Day

  • May 1st
    Feast of St. Joseph, the Worker

    May 3rd
    World Press Freedom Day

    May 6th
    Birthday of Margaret Anna Cusack, 1829

    May 15th
    International Day of Families

  • June 5th
    World Environment Day

    June 8th
    World Oceans Day

    June 15th
    Magna Carta Signed, 1215

    June 17th
    World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

    June 20th
    World Refugee Day

    June 26th
    International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

  • July 4th
    Independence Day (US)

    July 6th
    Birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama, born 1935

    July 18th
    Birthday of Nelson Mandela, born 1918

    July 30th
    World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

  • August 6th
    Hiroshima Remembrance

    August 9th
    International Day of the World's Indigenous People
    Nagasaki Remembrance

    August 12th
    International Youth Day

    August 23rd
    International Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition

  • September 1st
    World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

    September 8th
    World Literacy Day

    September 21st
    UN International Day of Peace

  • October 2nd
    Birthday of Mohandas Gandhi, born 1869

    October 16th
    World Food DAy

    October 17th
    International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

    October 24th
    United Nations Day

  • November 6th
    International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict

    November 8th
    Birthday of Dorothy Day, born 1897

    November 9th
    Birthday of Thomas Berry, C.P, born 1914

    November 11th
    Armistice Day (Veteran’s Day)

    November 20th
    World Children’s Day

    November 25th
    International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

    November 29th
    International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

  • December 1st
    AIDS Day

    December 2nd
    International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

    December 3rd
    International Day of Disabled Persons

    December 7th
    Gaudium et Spes, 1965

    December 10th
    Human Rights Day

    December 17th
    Birthday of Pope Francis

    December 18th
    International Migrants Day