On 14 December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly designated October 1 as the International Day of Older Persons. 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.
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Every 30th August since the year 2011 is celebrated the International Day of the Disappeared, whose purpose is to allow the UN Commission on Human Rights to make a general observation of the number of enforced disappearances that... Read more › The entry International Day of the Disappeared was first published in Remolacha - News Dominican Republic.