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6 November

16 November
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21 November
25 November
29 November
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World Interfaith Harmony Week
International Mother Language Day
United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Beginning of the Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against
Racism and Racial Discrimination
World Day for Water
World Meteorological Day
World Health Day
World Book and Copyright Day
World Press Freedom Day
International Day of Families
World Telecommunication Day
World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
International Day for Biological Diversity
Beginning of the Week of Solidarity with
the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
World No-Tobacco Day
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
World Environment Day
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
World Refugee Day
United Nations Public Service Day
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit
Trafficking
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
International Day of Cooperatives (first Saturday of July)
World Population Day
International Day of the World's Indigenous People
International Youth Day
International: Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
International Literacy Day
International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
International Day of Peace
World Maritime Day (during last week of September)
International Day of Older Persons
World Space Week
World Teachers' Day
World Habitat Day (first Monday of October)
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction (second Wednesday-Oct.)
World Post Day
World Mental Health Day
World Food Day
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
United Nations Day
World Development Information Day
Disarmament Week
Int’l Day for Preventing the Exploitation of
the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
International Day for Tolerance
Africa Industrialization Day
Universal Children's Day
World Television Day
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
World AIDS Day
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
International Day of Disabled Persons
International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
International Civil Aviation Day
Human Rights Day
International Migrants Day

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Last updated: 28 November, 2011