International community action events
The focus of this article is global or large scale events which have the potential for large scale active and participatory involvement by community groups and active citizens. They'll tend to be free or low cost events. If you would like to suggest something for this page but are unsure how to edit it, please feel free to put your suggestion on the talk page. Similar pages can be developed for more specific locations, see for example UK community action events.
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January
Jan 01, 2026 (Thu) — Public Domain Day, Jan 1 annually. An observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain. This legal transition of copyright works into the public domain usually happens every year on January 1 based on the individual copyright laws of each country, web.law.duke.edu- Jan 20, 2025 (Mon) — Bioregional Hope, transforming Blue Monday—known as the "most depressing day of the year"—into a day of Active Hope, bioregionalweavinglabs.substack.com
International community action events/November-January video
February
- Feb 02, 2025 (Sun) — World Wetlands Day, Feb 2, annually, worldwetlandsday.org
- February 15 - 23, 2025 (Sat - Sun) — Real Bread Week, annual, international celebration of additive-free bread and the people behind its rise, sustainweb.org
- Feb 20, 2025 (Thu) — World Day of Social Justice, Feb 20 each year, un.org
March
- March, 2025 — Water Action Month, March each year, endwaterpoverty.org
- Mar 01, 2025 (Sat) — World Seagrass Day, Mar 1, annually. Raising awareness about seagrass and its important functions in the marine ecosystem.
- Mar 03, 2025 (Mon) — World Wildlife Day, Mar 3, annually, un.org
- Mar 1 - 7, 2025 (Sat - Fri) — Open Data Day, opendataday.org
- Mar 08, 2025 (Sat) — International Women's Day, March 8 every year, unwomen.org
- Mar 20 - 30, 2025 (Thu - Sun) — Pesticide Action Week, semaine-sans-pesticides.fr
- Mar 14, 2024 (Thu) — International Day of Action for Rivers, internationalrivers.org
- Mar 18, 2025 (Tue) — Global Recycling Day, globalrecyclingday.com
- Mar 20, 2025 (Thu) — International Day of Happiness, every March 20, dayofhappiness.net
- Mar 20, 2025 (Thu) — World Rewilding Day, March 20, annually, rewildingeurope.com
- Mar 21, 2025 (Fri) — International Day of Forests, March 21 each year, fao.org
- Mar 21, 2025 (Fri) — International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, annually on 21 March, un.org
- Mar 22, 2025 (Sat) — World Water Day, March 22, annually, un.org
- Mar 22, 2025 (Sat) — Earth Hour, 8.30 p.m. local time, earthhour.org
April
- Apr 07, 2025 (Mon) — World Health Day, each April 7, who.int
- Apr 18, 2025 (Fri) — International Day for Monuments and Sites, April 18 each year, icomos.org
- Apr 22, 2025 (Tue) — Earth Day, April 22, annually, earthday.org
May
- May 2 - 4, 2025 (Fri - Sun) first weekend of May every year — Jane's Walk, How to Lead a Jane's Walk, Video, janeswalk.org
- May 04, 2025 (Sun) — International dawn chorus day, first Sunday of May, wildlifetrusts.org
- May 4 - 10, 2025 (Sun - Sat) — International Compost Awareness Week, compostfoundation.org
- May 5 - 11, 2025 (Mon - Sun) — Screen-Free Week, can be celebrated at any time of the year! Though traditionally has taken place the first week of May, screenfree.org
- May 08, 2025 (Thu) — Outdoor Classroom Day, celebrating and inspiring outdoor learning and play, outdoorclassroomday.com
- May 11 and Oct 12, 2024 — World Migratory Bird Day, worldmigratorybirdday.org
- May 20, 2025 (Tue) — World Bee Day, May 20 each year, fao.org
- May 22, 2025 (Thu) — International Day for Biological Diversity, May 22 every year, cbd.int
June
- Jun 03, 2025 (Tue) — World Bicycle Day, The bicycle is a "symbol of sustainable transport and conveys a positive message to foster sustainable consumption and production, and has a positive impact on climate." (United Nations), June 3 each year, un.org
- Jun 05, 2025 (Thu) — World Environment Day, June 5, annually, worldenvironmentday.global
- Jun 08, 2025 (Sun) — World Oceans Day, June 8 each year, worldoceanday.org
- Jun 12, 2025 (Thu) — World Day Against Child Labour, every year on June 12, ilo.org
- Jun 17, 2025 (Tue) — World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, each June 17, un.org
- Jun 21 and all of June — World Localization Day, worldlocalizationday.org
- Jun 22, 2025 (Sun) — World Rainforest Day, June 22 is World Rainforest Day, worldrainforestday.org
July
- July 2025 — Plastic Free July, plasticfreejuly.org
- Jul 05, 2025 (Sat) — CoopsDay, 1st Saturday of July, coopsday.coop
- Jul 18, 2025 (Fri) — Mandela Day, global celebration 18 July annually, to honour the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela. A call to action for individuals, communities, and organisations to take time to reflect on Mandela's values and principles and to make a positive impact in their own communities, mandeladay.com
August
- Aug 09, 2025 (Sat) — International Day of the World's Indigenous People, observed on 9 August each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population, un.org
- Aug 12, 2025 (Tue) — International Youth Day, awareness day designated by the United Nations taking place on Aug 12 each year, un.org
September
- Sep 15, 2025 (Mon) — Free Money Day, Global invitation for people to explore, in a liberating and fun way, what it might be like if our relationship to money was a little different. Sep 15, annually, freemoneyday.org
- Sep 20-22 (Fri-Sun) — Park(ing) day, global, public, participatory project where people across the world temporarily repurpose curbside parking spaces and convert them into public parks and social spaces to advocate for safer, greener, and more equitable streets for people, myparkingday.org
- Sep 21, 2025 (Sun) — International Day of Peace, Globally shared date, Sep 21 each year for all humanity to commit to Peace above all differences and to contribute to building a Culture of Peace, internationaldayofpeace.org
- Sep 21-28, 2024 (Sat-Sat) — Global Week Of Action For Peace And Climate Justice, climatemilitarism.org
October
- Oct 01, 2025 (Wed) — World Vegetarian Day, Oct 1 each year, bringing awareness to the ethical, environmental, health, and humanitarian benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle, worldvegetarianday.navs-online.org
- Oct 02, 2025 (Thu) — International Day of Non-Violence, observed each year on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, un.org
- Oct 07, 2025 (Tue) — World Day for Decent Work, October 7 is the World Day for Decent Work, ituc-csi.org
- Oct 10, 2025 (Fri) — World Mental Health Day, Oct 10, annually, wmhdofficial.com
- Oct 10, 2025 (Fri) — World Homeless Day, Oct 10 each year, drawing attention to homeless people’s needs locally and provide opportunities for the community to get involved in responding to homelessness, worldhomelessday.org
- Oct 13, 2025 (Mon) — International Day for Disaster Reduction, Oct 13, annually, promoting a global culture of natural disaster reduction, including prevention, mitigation, and preparedness, un.org
- Oct 12, 2024 (Sat) — World Migratory Bird Day, worldmigratorybirdday.org
- Oct 16, 2025 (Thu) — World Food Day, celebrated every year around the world on 16 October, often with a focus on food security, fao.org
- Oct 17, 2025 (Fri) — International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Oct 17 each year, honouring victims of poverty, hunger, violence and fear, with participation by the poorest of people an important aspect of the observance of the Day, un.org
- Oct 18, 2025 (Sat) — International Repair Day, annual celebration for everyone who makes repair happen in their communities around the world. "Repair for Everyone"., openrepair.org
November
- Nov 6 - 9, 2024 — Global Donut Days, doughnuteconomics.org
- Nov 06, 2025 (Thu) — Outdoor Classroom Day, celebrating and inspiring outdoor learning and play, outdoorclassroomday.com
- Nov 13, 2025 (Thu) — World Kindness Day, Nov 13, annually, highlighting good deeds in the community focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness for good which binds us, randomactsofkindness.org
- Nov 16, 2025 (Sun) — International Day for Tolerance, Nov 16 each year, fostering respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human, unesco.org
- Nov 17, 2024 (Sun) — World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, third Sunday in November each year, worlddayofremembrance.org
- Nov 19, 2025 (Wed) — International Men's Day, Nov 19, annually
- Nov 28 & 29, 2025 — Buy Nothing Day, en.wikipedia.org
December
- Dec 05, 2025 (Fri) — World Soil Day, annually on Dec 5, un.org
- Dec 09, 2025 (Tue) — International Anti-Corruption Day, Dec 9 each year, unodc.org
- Dec 11, 2025 (Thu) — International Mountain Day, Dec 11, annually, fao.org
- Dec 12, 2025 (Fri) — Inheritance Day, celebrated annually on December 12th, invites us to envision that we are 150 years in the future, and humans have figured out how to live in harmony with each other and the planet. We sit down to dinner with our families, both birth and chosen, and celebrate the incredible achievements that our ancestors worked so hard for!, The Terran Collective
Years
2025
- International Year of Peace and Trust
- International Year of Glaciers' Preservation
- International Year of Cooperatives
- International Year of Quantum Science and Technology
2026
- International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists
- International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development
- International Year of the Woman Farmer
2027
- International Year of Sustainable and Resilient Tourism
Source: un.org
Decades
2021-2030
- UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
- UN Decade of Healthy Ageing, added 14:32, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Decade of Action for Road Safety
- Decade of the Cargo Bike, Jos Sluijsmans and Tom Parr, organisers of the International Cargo Bike Festival believe this is the decade the cargo bike will hit the mainstream. "The potential impact is enormous, so join us, and together let's make it happen"
Past events
lapsed or no longer updated
- Apr 28, 2024, Pay it Forward Day, payitforwardday.com
- Mid April, 2024, Global Day of Action on Military Spending, ipb.org
- Sep 23, 2023, European Day of Sustainable Communities
- Jun 3, 2023, Global Degrowth Day
- May 15 - 21, 2023, UN Global Road Safety Week
- Feb 12, 2021, WinterBikeToWorkDay
- Jun 21 - 27, 2021, Global Sharing Week
- Jan 31, 2020, Street Children‘s Day
- Sep 21, 2019, The Meal
- Oct 17 - 24, 2019, Pop Up Tomorrow
See also
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External links
- International observance , List of environmental dates
- Upcoming events on Shareable
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