- 3rd Monday - Martin Luther King Jr. Day (USA) (more information: 1 & 2)
Government of New Brunswick
Special Days to Promote Human Rights
January
February
- Black History Month
- 2nd week of February - Heritage Week (Canada)
March
- March 8 - International Women's Day
- March 21 - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- March 21 - Youth Day (New Brunswick)
- March 21 - 28 - Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and
Racial Discrimination
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
- Late May - Disability Awareness Week (New Brunswick)
- May 17 - International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia
June
- June 21 - National Indigenous Peoples Day (Canada)
- Late June - Gay Pride
August
- August 9 - International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
- 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 1 - 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
- November 20 - World Children's Day
December
- December 2 - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
- December 3 - International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- 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.)
