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RUOK? Day
2025-09-11
R U OK? inspire and empower everyone to meaningfully connect with the people around them and start a conversation with those in their world who may be struggling with life.

Dementia Action Week
2025-09-15 08:00 - 2025-09-21 17:00 (Australia/Sydney)
Dementia Action Week is a major leadership, awareness and advocacy campaign led by Dementia Australia as the peak body for people living with dementia, their families and carers in Australia.

International Day of Peace
2025-09-21
The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the Day as a period of non-violence and cease-fire.

International Day of Sign Languages
2025-09-23
The UN General Assembly has proclaimed 23 September as the International Day of Sign Languages in order to raise awareness of the importance of sign language in the full realization of the human rights of people who are deaf.

World Heart Day
2025-09-29
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the world’s number one killer. Combined, conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels – such as heart attack, stroke and heart failure – kill more than 20.5 million every year. The majority of these deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries.

International Day of Older Persons
2025-10-01
On 14 December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly designated October 1 as the International Day of Older Persons (resolution 45/106). This was preceded by initiatives such as the Vienna International Plan of Action on Ageing, which was adopted by the 1982 World Assembly on Ageing and endorsed later that year by the UN General Assembly.

Mental Health Month
2025-10-01 08:00 - 2025-10-31 17:00
Mental Health Month is celebrated each year in the month of October in NSW. This month encourages all of us to think about our mental health and wellbeing, regardless of whether we may have a lived experience of mental illness or not.
The 2025 theme is Taking Steps on your Wellbeing Journey.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month
2025-10-01 08:00 - 2025-10-31 17:00
OUR VISION: ZERO DEATHS FROM BREAST CANCER

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and an important time for NBCF to highlight why research in this area is so crucial. Breast cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia, with 9 people losing their lives to the disease every day.

World Cerebral Palsy Day
2025-10-06
World Cerebral Palsy Day is a global movement that started in 2012. Last year, it reached over 10 million people. It aims to bring together people living with cerebral palsy, their families, supporters, and organisations from over 100 countries. The aim is to ensure a future in which children and adults with cerebral palsy have the same rights, access and opportunities as anyone else in our society.

World Sight Day
2025-10-09
On World Sight Day, we cast a spotlight on the importance of eye care around the world. Every October, on the second Thursday, the worlds’ attention is focused on what it means to have eye care that is accessible, available and affordable to all.

World Mental Health Day
2025-10-10
The overall objective of World Mental Health Day is to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and to mobilise efforts in support of mental health.

National Carers Week
2025-10-12 08:00 - 2025-10-18 17:00
National Carers Week is an opportunity to raise community awareness among all Australians about the diversity of carers and their caring roles.

OCD Awareness Week
2025-10-12 08:00 - 2025-10-18 17:00
OCD Awareness Week (#OCDweek) is a worldwide event that serves to dispel myths about obsessive compulsive disorder, break the stigma around mental illness, and provide education about the disorder and how to support those affected.

Children's Week
2025-10-18 08:00 - 2025-10-26 17:00
Everyone should know about Children’s Rights!
The Children’s Week National Theme for 2025 is based on UNCRC Article 42: States Parties undertake to make the principles and provisions of the Convention widely known, by appropriate and active means, to adults and children alike.

World Toilet Day
2025-10-24 08:00 - 17:00
This essential space, at the centre of our lives, should be safe and secure. But for billions of people, sanitation is under threat from conflict, climate change, disasters and neglect.
‘Safe toilets for all by 2030’ is one of the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 6 – but the world is seriously off track.
3.5 billion people still live without safely managed sanitation, including 419 million who practise open defecation.
Faster action to improve and protect people’s access to sanitation is critical to building a fairer, more peaceful world.

Movember
2025-11-01 08:00 - 2025-11-30 17:00
If there’s one thing The Order of Mo is known for, it’s this. Growing a Mo is our symbol for better men’s health. It also grabs attention and starts important conversations. So give it a go – it shows the world you stand for healthier men and a healthier world.

World Pneumonia Day
2025-11-12
Each year on World Pneumonia Day, Every Breath Counts adds our collective voice to the global call to action by rallying our members.

World Diabetes Day
2025-11-14
Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attack, stroke and lower limb amputation. Healthy diet, physical activity and avoiding tobacco use can prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. In addition diabetes can be treated and its consequences avoided or delayed with medication, regular screening and treatment for complications.

Cervical Cancer Elimination Day of Action
2025-11-17
Each year WHO joins advocates around the world to commemorate a landmark Day of Action for Cervical Cancer Elimination and welcome groundbreaking new initiatives to end this devastating disease. The global movement to eliminate cervical cancer is driven by the energy, passion and momentum of communities, partners and individuals working towards catalyzing change.
The date marks the day in 2020 when WHO launched the Global strategy to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem, with a resolution passed by 194 countries.

World Day for the Prevention and Healing from Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Violence
2025-11-18
Globally, countless young individuals are victims of sexual misconduct and exploitation. Such violations are pervasive, cutting across all nations and societal strata.
Children, especially girls, are at a greater risk of experiencing forced sex and sexual exploitation, abuse and violence, including both online and offline, and it’s also a common situation during armed conflicts.
In the global context of multiple challenges – the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts, climate change and disasters – the inadequate action, or measures to address the root causes, such as rising inequalities, deepening poverty, and structural discrimination on intersecting grounds, continue to exacerbate the situations that expose children to exploitation, abuse and violence. Child victims and survivors of such crimes can face long-lasting negative impacts on their physical, mental, and sexual health and development. Such trauma on children may even amount to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
Many victims and survivors never disclose and/or seek justice, rehabilitation or support because of the shame. For many victims and survivors, their child abuse experience affects their physical and mental health and well-being, and sometimes there are lifelong consequences.

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week
2025-11-18 08:00 - 2025-11-26 17:00
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines, making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death. As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become ineffective and infections become increasingly difficult or impossible to treat.

International Men's Day
2025-11-19
In Australia, IMD is a great opportunity to take part in a global conversation about manhood, masculinity and men’s issues by:
– highlighting some of the social issues that men and boys face
– making a difference for the men and boys in your community
– celebrating men and boys in all their diversity
– having some serious fun in the process.
This year, International Men’s Day will be held on Wednesday 19 November 2025, though many people will hold their activities and celebrations before or after the main event.

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
2025-11-25
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) remains largely unreported due to the impunity, silence, stigma and shame surrounding it.
It can manifest in physical, sexual and psychological forms, encompassing:
– intimate partner violence (battering, psychological abuse, marital rape, femicide);
– sexual violence and harassment (rape, forced sexual acts, unwanted sexual advances, child sexual abuse, forced – marriage, street harassment, stalking, cyber- harassment);
– human trafficking (slavery, sexual exploitation);
– female genital mutilation; and
– child marriage.
Within the UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women issued by the UN General Assembly in 1993, defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.”
This affects women at all stages of their life, including education, employment, and opportunities.
Some women and girls, such as those in vulnerable situations or humanitarian crises, migrants, LGTBI, indigenous people or those with disabilities, face greater risk.
Violence against women continues to be an obstacle to achieving equality, development, peace as well as to the fulfillment of women and girls’ human rights. All in all, the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – to leave no one behind – cannot be fulfilled without putting an end to violence against women and girls.

World AIDS Day
2025-12-01
World AIDS Day raises awareness of HIV and AIDS in our community and across the world. It reminds us that HIV is still a global epidemic.

Decembeard and Decembhair
2025-12-01 08:00 - 2025-12-31 17:00
A hair–raising fundraiser held during the month of December, Decembeard Australia encourages men to grow or challenge their beard in the final month of the year to raise awareness and much needed funds for Bowel Cancer Australia.

International Day of People with Disability
2025-12-03
The United Nations has announced the theme for IDPwD 2025. The theme is:
Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress.

World Soil Day
2025-12-05
The theme for 2025 is Healthy Soils for Healthy Cities.

Tropical Tree Day
2025-12-07
Planet Ark has a national tree day in July as well as tropical tree day this December 7.
Spending time in green spaces leads to better mental health and wellbeing, so it’s no wonder we gravitate towards nature when we need a break. However, with some considered planting, there’s no reason why your own backyard or balcony garden can’t have a similar effect.

Human Rights Day
2025-12-10
The Australian Human Right Commission promotes and protects human rights for all people in Australia and helps to resolve complaints about discrimination. It has awards on the 10 December each year to honour human rights heroes.

World Meditation Day
2025-12-21
According to archaeologists, meditation dates back to 5,000 BCE, and the practice itself has ties to ancient Egypt and China, Judaism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and Buddhism, as well as to Christianity and Islam.
It is not religious and is available to everyone.
Meditation can help reduce stress, blood pressure and anxiety, promote emotional health, enhance self-awareness and improve sleep.
